healthy people 2020 - Society for Public Health Education

✯ Conference Abstracts ✯
thursday | november 4 & friday | november 5
Do you want to improve the pipeline of the future health education
workforce? Do you care about quality assurance in higher education?
This interactive workshop will describe the role of the SOPHE/AAHE
Baccalaureate Approval Committee (SABPAC) in assuring the quality of
professional preparation programs in health education, including the committee’s
purpose, composition, organization and accountability. It will
also explain the major steps in SABPAC’s approval process. Find out how
you can prepare your institution for SABPAC review and/or how to
join a SABPAC site review team and earn CHES credits.
SABPAC Manual included in workshop fee.
friday | november 5
presidential address
fri / nov 5 / 8:45 am – 9:15 am / Room: Colorado E-F
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health -
A Focus on Children and Youth
Diane Allensworth, PhD, 2009-2010 SOPHE President and Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Only recently have the specific health disparities experienced by children
and youth and the long-lasting consequences become the focus of
research. Among the various determinants of youth health disparities
are poverty, unequal access to health care, poor environmental conditions,
and educational inequities. Poor and minority children have more
health problems and less access to health care than their higher SES
cohorts. Having more health problems leads to more absenteeism K-12
which in turn can effect achievement. Achieving a high school diploma
and a college degree is an acknowledged route out of poverty. However
that route is blocked for many poor and minority students.
The educational level that one attains is a significant determinant of one’s
earning potential and health. Those who learn more earn more money
have better health status. Those who do not attain a high school diploma
on average live six to nine years less than those who do graduate from
high school. Further, their children also experience poorer health and
the cycle repeats. Currently, three fourths of minority students attend
high poverty/high minority schools while only one third of whites attend
high poverty/high minority schools. Many high poverty/high minority
schools are in inadequate, rundown facilities; receive lower per-pupil
spending allocations; have less credentialed and qualified teachers; experience
higher teacher turnover; have larger class sizes; have less technology-assisted
instruction; and lack school safety. Consequently, every
school day over seven thousand students drop out of school each year.
High school drop outs are more likely to rely on government health care,
use public services such as food stamps or housing assistance and are less
likely to raise healthier, well-educated children.
This presentation will explore what health educators can do individually
and collectively as SOPHE members to address the health and educational
challenges facing our most vulnerable children.
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sophe conference ✯ november 4-6, 2010
plenary session i
fri / nov 5 / 9:15 am – 10:00 am / Room: Colorado E-F
Healthy People Objectives for the Nation:
Three Decades of Achievement
J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, Institute of Medicine
In 1979, Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention provided national goals for reducing premature
deaths and preserving independence for older adults. In 1980,
another report, Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the
Nation, set forth 226 targeted health objectives for the Nation to achieve
over the next 10 years. This document was followed by Healthy People
2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, and
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health. As we stand
on the threshold of the next decade’s set of national health objectives,
this presentation will describe how the goals have evolved over the years
in relation to population health and challenges and opportunities for
improving the quantity and quality of life.
concurrent sessions a
fri / nov 5 / 10:30 am – 11:45 am
concurrent session a1
clearing the smoke: looking back, looking forward
at healthy people objectives
Room: Colorado E-F
The Healthy People 2010 Tobacco Use Chapter: Looking Back
Ralph S. Caraballo, PhD, MPH, Office on Smoking and Health, National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Terry Pechacek, PhD, Associate Director for Science,Office on
Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the Nation
and is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and chronic
lung diseases. Smoking exacts a toll of 443,000 deaths each year. Healthy
People 2010 is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the
most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to
reduce these threats. Communities can, and often do, implement the interventions
that bring the Nation closer to achieving these objectives.
Healthy People 2010: Focus Area 27 – Tobacco Use is one of the leading
health indicators used to measure the health of the Nation. As the Nation
approaches the end of 2010, tobacco use objectives were examined to determine
what progress has been made and what challenge areas remain
for reducing, and ultimately, ending the tobacco use epidemic.
Most objectives are improving or remaining the same. Of the objectives
and subobjectives, 5 have met or exceeded their target, 23 are moving
toward the target, 10 are showing little or no change, and 2 are moving
away from the target.
While significant progress is being made towards reaching the Healthy
People 2010 objectives, comprehensive programs are needed to end
the tobacco epidemic. If states fully invested in comprehensive tobacco
control and prevention at CDC recommended levels for 5 years, there
would be an estimated 5 million fewer smokers. As a result, hundreds of
thousands of premature tobacco related deaths would be prevented.