Devising and Attaining National Health Objectives: A Case Study in Policy Formulation Using Asthma Targets in Healthy People 2000
Abstract
Devising policies for the nation's health is the context for the research proposed in the following pages. Asthma effects approximately eleven million Americans, causing work and school days to be lost, millions of outpatient visits, and thousands of hospitalizations annually (Weinstein, 1987). In 1989, asthma-related costs exceeded $6 billion (Weiss et al 1990). In an era when chronic diseases are increasingly manageable and the mode of treatment for asthma well recognized, mortality and morbidity from this disease are rising (Buist and Vollmer, 1990). The burden of illness falls disproportionately on lower socioeconomic groups and minorities (Gergen and Weiss, 1990). As an example, the death rate in blacks is three times higher than in whites (Centers for Disease Control, 1990). Prevention and control of asthma is one of the many conditions addressed in the document Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (HP2000) (United States Public Health Service, 1990).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 06, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA239363
Entities
People
- Elizabeth P. Whitney-teeple
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology