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Health trends and issues for Lyon, Storey counties will be focus of Healthy People Nevada gathering
Julia Peek of the Office of Epidemiology at Nevada State Health will be the featured speaker at the Thursday, Dec. 9 Healthy Communities Coalition's public meeting.
She will give a detailed presentation on The Healthy People 2010/2020 Nevada data, highlighting data now available for rural Nevada, Lyon and Storey regions in particular, as well as giving a brief overview of statewide and nationwide trends and concerns, particularly in areas of health status, mortality and morbidity.
The Healthy People initiative is a national strategy for improving the health of Americans. Healthy People 2010 is published by the United States Department of Health and Human Service, and identifies health improvement goals and objectives for the U.S. to be reached by 2010. Each decade, the objectives and targets are modified.
Healthy People 2010 Nevada uses selected objectives and focus areas from Healthy People 2010 to provide statewide data on the health of Nevadans. Included in the report are statistics on Nevada and the U.S., baseline data and a 2010 target goal related to that objective. Also in the report being developed by the NSHD, there will be information on promising practices and the new objectives for Healthy People 2020.
Collecting, analyzing, interpreting, disseminating and using health data is central to making the best decisions to promote health. This information has provided the framework for national, state, and local health agencies and nongovernmental entities to understand health status, health behaviors, and services, and to then to plan, evaluate and initiate health promotion programs.
Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey, a private nonprofit, convenes for a public meeting on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. at the Silver Springs Community Center. The next meeting is Dec. 9. Please call 246-7550 for more information, or see www.healthycomm.org or www.facebook.com/healthycommunitiescoalition