Healthy People 2020: The Tobacco Use Chapter

Audience:

Tobacco prevention and control professionals working in national, state or local programs will benefit from this presentation.

Key Points:

Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Cigarette smoking causes approximately 443,000 deaths each year.

Healthy People 2020 provides a science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. The Tobacco Use chapter aims to reduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.  The Healthy People 2020 Tobacco Use chapter contains 20 objectives organized into 3 key areas:  Tobacco Use Prevalence, Health System Changes, Social and Environmental Changes.

 

Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas, nearly 600 objectives, which encompass 1,200 measures.  A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators, has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.  Three objectives from the tobacco chapter were chosen as Leading Health Indicators.   

Educational Experience:

This presentation will detail the tobacco use objectives, baseline data, and targets for 2020 as well as highlight the three tobacco Leading Health Indicators.

Benefits:

Attendees will learn the new Healthy People 2020 tobacco objectives, the resources available across all Healthy People 2020 chapters, how to access data, targets, data source information and other materials to help them in program planning and evaluation.