What is Healthy People 2010?

Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) is a ten-year health promotion program for improving the health of all Americans. Led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HP2010 is organized into 28 focus areas with 467 public health objectives. These objectives, developed and selected through consultation with a broad range of organizations, groups, and individuals, provide a framework for monitoring and measuring improvements in health status of the American population over the ten-year period from 2000 to 2010. An example of a public health objective (from the Diabetes focus area) is: "Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who perform self-blood-glucose-monitoring at least once daily".

DATA2010, the Healthy People 2010 Database, is an interactive online database that contains the most recent national and state data for tracking HP2010 objectives and can be accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov . A Midcourse Review, to be released for each focus area in 2006, is underway. The Midcourse Review assesses progress in achieving HP2010 public health objectives and determines whether objectives need changing to reflect the most up-to-date science and data. More information about Healthy People 2010 is available at http://www.healthypeople.gov.

What is the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project?
The Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project (or HP2010 IPA) is a Web resource developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with help from subject experts and public health librarians. HP2010 IAP provides special pre-formulated PubMed (see information about PubMed below) searches for selected HP2010 objectives. HP2010 IAP also provides links to relevant full-text resources available from the National Library of Medicine's Web site. The purpose of HP2010 IAP is to make it easier for the public health workforce to quickly find current information from published and evidence-based literature for achieving HP2010 public health objectives.

What is Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce?
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries. The purpose of Partners is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health. The Partners web site (http://PHPartners.org) provides links to information in 10 main categories:

Health Promotion and Education Legislation
Literature and Guidelines Conferences and Meetings
Health Data Tools and Statistics Finding People
Grants and Funding Discussion and E-mail Lists
Education and Training Jobs and Careers

PHPartners also provides links to the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, the Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness, the Public Health Information and Data: Training Manual and online tutorial, and news items and developments of interest to Public Health. A search engine for the Partners Web site searches through all of the Web pages on the Partners main site as well as the HP2010 IAP and Public Health Information and Data online tutorial Web pages.

How does the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project (HP2010 IAP) relate to http://PHPartners.org?
The Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project is one of the resources that resides on the Partners Web site and that appears as a link from the Partners homepage.

What is PubMed?
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's online database of bibliographic citations from over 4800 medical and public health journals dating from the 1950's to the present. The HP2010 IAP provides pre-formulated PubMed searches for specific Healthy People 2010 objectives. Most of the HP2010 IAP search strategies have been limited by date to the most recent 5 years so as to provide the most current information relating to HP2010 topics. Simply click on the PubMed icon to the left of an objective listed on one of the HP2010 IAP pages and you will be connected to the search results page in PubMed. For more information about PubMed, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.chapter.pubmedhelp

How can I obtain copies of articles that I find cited in PubMed?
Many articles are available for free. If you have an affiliation with a medical or public health library, you may have access to journals via an institutional subscription. Icons from publishers or other full-text sources are provided in the citation and abstract display formats for PubMed citations. More information about how to determine if you have free access to specific journals/citations and/or how to obtain copies of articles through a library or publisher is provided at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.section.pubmedhelp.How_to_get_the_Journ

Additionally, NN/LM, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, assists public health workers with training on Partners and other Web resources, providing speakers for educational programs or meetings, obtaining copies of journal articles, and identifying local health library resources. Contact them at http://nnlm.gov or call 1-800-338-7657.

How can I find out more about how to search PubMed?
In addition to the PubMed Help http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.chapter.pubmedhelp and PubMed Overview http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html, there is a PubMed tutorial, PubMed Quick Tours on specific topics, and PubMed Basics (a trifold quick reference guide) available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html.

PubMed and related National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Manuals (in Word and PDF format) are available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html.

You might also consider taking PubMed training via the National Training Center and Clearinghouse. This training is provided free of charge. Details, online registration, and a training schedule for classes taught in Bethesda, Maryland, at the National Library of Medicine as well as classes taught at various Regional locations are provided at: http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/index.html.

Do check with your own library (including public library). They might be able to help you find additional classes that are being offered locally via conferences, universities, etc.

I am interested in information on topics other than those in the Healthy People 2010 focus areas. How can I find information on these topics?
A good starting point is the Partners Web site (http://PHPartners.org). Information has been organized especially for the Public Health Workforce. Use the Partners search engine box (top right of page) if you don't know which category to browse. PubMed (http://pubmed.gov) is another excellent starting point.

I am interested in child health and would like to find information from all of the Healthy People IAP focus areas that cover child health. Is there a way to find this information?
A quick way to find which Healthy People IAP focus areas cover child health topics is to use the Partners search engine box. Include the word child with an asterisk (child*) to search on child or children and related variations for the most comprehensive approach. Links to all Partner, Public Health Information and Data online tutorial, and HP2010 IAP Web pages that mention child or children will be presented.

The Healthy People 2010 Web site also provides a keyword search feature for searching objectives (http://www.healthypeople.gov/hpscripts/KeywordSearch.asp), including Age Group categories.

Why are only some of the objectives listed under each focus area in the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project (HP2010 IAP)?
The HP2010 IAP began as a "pilot" project to determine how feasible and how useful it would be for the Public Health Workforce to have pre-formulated PubMed search strategies relating to HP2010 objectives. Also, since some of the HP2010 objectives are considered "developmental" and may not be measurable due to lack of local data, the Healthy People 2010 Work Group Coordinators have worked with NLM and the public health librarians involved in selecting key public health objectives from each focus area for this project.

What are Related Resources?
Related Resources listed in HP2010 IAP focus areas are links to full-text resources available primarily from the National Library of Medicine's Web site. Examples of these resources include:

MEDLINEplus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aboutmedlineplus.html), NLM's consumer health resource of over 740 health topics and other useful information
Clinical (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat3.part.1) & Community Preventive Services (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat3.part.4767) and related evidence-based guidelines (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat)
Reports from the U.S. Surgeon General (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.part.1)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) prevention (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.part.13409) and treatment guidelines (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.part.22441)
Other sources carefully selected for relevance to the public health workforce
Please note the "Suggest Link" feature located under the Search box. We welcome your suggestions for resources that you've found helpful that we could add to the Partners Web site.


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