EPSDT Care for Kids Newsletter

EPSDT Care for Kids Newsletter

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Healthy Iowans 2010 is coming!
Ron Eckhoff, Iowa Department of Public Health
Summer 1999

Iowa has caught the wave of the new millennium as it plans for Healthy Iowans 2010, a companion to Healthy People 2010. These are part of a nationwide effort to improve the health of the American people, an effort that will guide federal resource allocations for disease prevention and health promotion in the new decade.

Healthy Iowans 2010 has four themes:

Empowerment

Elimination of health disparities

Collaboration

Dynamic change

Image: Father and son walking toward barn, carrying buckets

The Iowa process involves a collaboration of government, voluntary and professional organizations, industry, and individuals. Following a kickoff meeting last October, more than 500 Iowans now serve on teams that will draft Healthy Iowans 2010. This report will examine:

Access to health care
Addictions to alcohol, other drugs, and gambling
Cancer
Diabetes
Education and community-based programs
Environmental health
Family planning
Food and drug safety
Heart disease and stroke
Immunization and infectious diseases

Maternal, child, and infant health
Mental health and mental disorders
Nutrition
Occupational safety and health
Oral health
People with disabilities
Physical activity and fitness
Public health infrastructure
Sexual health
Tobacco use; section on asthma
Unintentional injuries
Violent and abusive behavior

We welcome your input

You can learn more about Healthy Iowans 2010 by visiting our Web page, at:

http://www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/healthy_iowans_vision.asp

Here, you will find an overview with timelines, including a schedule of review team meetings. Summaries of chapter goals will be put online as chapters are drafted, along with information on how to reach the contact person for each chapter. Please feel free to communicate with the contact person if you have questions or comments -- Healthy Iowans 2010 will be most successful if many Iowans have input into its development, and share in its implementation.

The full draft of this report should be completed and ready for public comment by late 1999. The release of Healthy Iowans 2010 is scheduled for June 2000. To learn more, please visit the Web site, or contact Louise Lex (515-281-4348) or Ronald Eckoff (515-281-5914) at the Iowa Department of Public Health.

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