compilation of health improvement opportunities for the next decade

Complete 7 page APA formatted essay: Healthy People 2010 Indicator in my Community.As a community, our commitment to work towards the key focus areas and meeting of health objectives can be an indicator of a society moving towards its goal of healthy people 2010.Surgeon General David Satcher describes Healthy People 2010as “an encyclopedic compilation of health improvement opportunities for the next decade.”3The 467 target objectives of mission Healthy People 2010 have been broadly divided into 28 focus areas4:Access Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Chronic BackConditionsCancer Chronic Kidney DiseaseDiabetes Disability and Secondary ConditionsEnvironmental Health Educational and Community-Based ProgramsFamily Planning Food SafetyHealth Communication Heart Disease and StrokeHIV/AIDSImmunization and Infectious DiseasesInjury/Violence PreventionMaternal, Infant, Child HealthMedical Product Safety Mental Health and Mental DisordersNutrition and Overweight Occupational Safety and HealthOral Health Physical Activity and FitnessAsthma/Respiratory Diseases Public Health InfrastructureSexually Transmitted Diseases Substance Abuse (including alcohol)Tobacco Use Vision and HearingIn the paper, I will be focusing on Asthma as an indicator of Healthy People 2010 in my community.Herein I will talk about:The prevalence of Asthma casesIts impact on the societyThe measures taken by us to make our community Asthma free by 2010The measures taken for handling this problem successfully and overall access to quality healthy services for fighting this problem along with education awareness against causes and cure of Asthma will be instrumental in indicating the success of Healthy People 2010 mission.In the earlier times, only old aged people were known to suffer from respiratory problems like Asthma.