Healthy People 2020 Research Paper

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Healthy People 2020 In today’s generation, many individuals don’t live a healthy lifestyle. Health promotion focuses on achieving maximum functioning in each potential area of health. Healthy People 2020, goal is to embrace higher quality of life, an individual being free of a preventable disease. Focusing on making lifestyle changes, by setting goals to stop smoking, practice safe sex, maintain body weight, limit alcohol intake, and follow a regular exercise program as well as a healthy diet regimen. Setting goals to provide measurable ideas that are relevant at the national, state, and local levels (Berman, Snyder, 2008). The Healthy People 2020 Mission: The Healthy People 2020 aims to generally increase the longevity of lives of people…show more content…
The program will be pioneering in new, innovative and transformative health care practices that will benefit everyone and will place all people in equal footing thus eradicating a person’s race, wealth, age or gender. Reducing Emergency Room Wait Time The ability for the health care system to deliver care in a timely fashion has always been a concern. According to the article by Shapiro (2010), emergency departments are the test of efficiency, effectiveness, accuracy and overall health care systems. Hence, the Healthy People 2020 program will be able to reduce emergency visits and provide more quality health service to those who actually need one. This specific goal will lessen expenses for patients, increase the time availability of doctors and healthcare providers and will eventually result to lower casualties in the long term. Strategies on Reducing Wait Time in the Emergency…show more content…
Thus, solving the problem on patient overcrowding will lessen the waiting time for any patient. In the same article, the formation of a Patient Flow Team (PFT) is introduced to solve the problem of emergency overcrowding. The PFT will involve a team leader who will oversee the management of the incoming and outgoing of patients. The said strategy will involve physicians, nurses, administrative staff and the like. Basically, the PFT will involve cross trainings on all members on how to prioritize patient attention without compromising the fact that other patients with minimal help still needs attention from physicians (Mchugh, Van Dyke, Mclelland, & Moss (2011). Another strategy in reducing emergency wait times is through the adaption of advanced technological tools, systems or programs that are intended to increase the probability of avoiding overcrowded emergency rooms, thus reducing patient wait time. For example, the use of “TeleTracking” monitors the availability of beds and compares it with the number of patient’s in the waiting line (Sapiro,
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