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Data for Steps to a HealthierUS
Secretary Thompson is leading the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) in Steps to a HealthierUS. At the heart of this program lie both
personal responsibility for the choices Americans make and social
responsibility to ensure that policy makers support programs that foster
healthy behaviors and prevention.
The Steps initiative envisions a healthy, strong United States where
diseases are prevented when possible, controlled when necessary, and
treated when appropriate. This initiative is a bold shift in our approach
to the health of our citizens, moving us from a disease care system to a
health care system.
The Steps initiative advances President Bush's HealthierUS program, which
uses all of the available resources of the federal government to alert
Americans to the vital health benefits of simple and modest improvements
in physical activity, nutrition, and behavioral choices such as
eliminating tobacco and illegal drug use and encouraging health
screenings.
Through the Steps initiative, Secretary Thompson's highest priority health
issues are obesity, diabetes, and asthma because of the unprecedented
epidemics that these diseases pose.
The measures listed here are a set of Healthy People 2010 objective
measures relevant to tracking progress for the Steps to a HealthierUS
initiative. For more information about the Steps initiative, visit the
Steps to a HealthierUS website at:
http://www.healthierus.gov/steps/index.html.
Go to "Steps to a HealthierUS"
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