Question

Discuss how epidemiological methods are used to evaluate Healthy People 2020 objectives. Provide examples

Answer 1

The standardized national assessment of state health departments' core epidemiology capacity, is termed as The Epidemiology Capacity Assessment. It is established to perform the most essential services of Public Health such as, to monitor current health status and identify and solve the problems of the community, investigation and diagonization of health problems in the society, evaluation of the health services of the people of the community, and lastly, working on the innovative solutions to provide health problems solution.

The major objectives of Healthy People 2020 includes:

To achieve high quality and to make society free from premature deaths and disease.

To maintain high equity and improve the health of the society.

To develop healthy environment for good health of the people.

To maintain high quality of life in all stages of life.

The Healthy People website is created to include all of the HP2020 objectives and database into a single site. The website includes current data for HP2020 objectives, data details, data sources, and methods. It also includes online database, interactive tools for tabulating and graphing data.

On line questionnaire was made to evaluate Healthy People 2020 assessment in each states. To identify epidemiologist, worksheets was distributed in the areas of work indicating the training and experiences. Further, all the response rates was collected which describes the level of training and experience of the people.

The epidemiological methods that are used to evaluate Healthy People 2020 objectives includes, case control study, Cohort study and Cross sectional study.

For example : it study the measue of illness risk of the exposed population comparatively to the illness risk of the unexposed population keeping in mind the same age group, same sex as well as the social status of the population.