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At the beginning of each concept in this book is a sectioncontaining abbreviated statements of the new national health goalsfrom the document Healthy People 2010: National Health Promotionand Disease Prevention Objectives. These statements, establishedby expert groups representing more than 300 national organizations,are intended as realistic national health goals to be achieved by theyear 2010. These objectives for the first decade of the new millennium,are intended to improve the health of those in the United States, butthey seem important for all people in North America and in otherindustrialized cultures throughout the world. The health objectivesare designed to contribute to the current World Health Organizationstrategy of "Health for All." This book is written with the achievementof these important health goals in mind.The first national health goals were developed in 1979 to beaccomplished by the year 1990. The focus of those objectives wason reduction in the death rate among infants, children, adolescents,young adults and adults. Except for reducing death rates amongadolescents, those goals were met and the average life expectancywas increased by more than 2 years by the 1990s. Those firstnational health objectives gave way to the Healthy People 2000objectives designed to be accomplished by the turn of the century.The emphasis in these objectives shifted from reduction inpremature death to disease prevention and health promotion.While many of these objectives have been achieved, others haveyet to be accomplished.