What Are Its Goals?

Healthy People 2010 is designed to achieve two overarching goals: 

• Goal 1: Increase Quality and Years of Healthy Life
  
  The first goal of Healthy People 2010 is to help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality of life.
  
  
• Goal 2: Eliminate Health Disparities
  
  The second goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population.

Each of the 28 focus area chapters also contains a concise goal statement. This statement frames the overall purpose of the focus area.

Examples of focus area goals are:

• 3. Cancer: 
  Reduce the number of new cancer cases as well as the illness, disability, and death caused by cancer.

• 6. Disability and Secondary Conditions:
  Promote the health of people with disabilities, prevent secondary conditions, and eliminate disparities between people with and without disabilities in the U.S. population. 

• 10. Food Safety: 
  Reduce foodborne illnesses.