Volume 7 - Issue 1
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Evidence-Based Public Health Resource Review: The Healthy People 2010 Information Access ProjectPre-formulated PubMed Search Strategies for Public Health ObjectivesThe Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, available at http://phpartners.org/hp, simplifies searching for published and evidence-based literature for achieving Healthy People 2010 public health objectives. The National Library of Medicine and the Public Health Foundation have worked together to develop pre-formulated PubMed search strategies for selected Healthy People 2010 objectives.
Healthy People 2010 is a ten-year health promotion program for improving the health of all Americans. Led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HP2010 is organized into 28 focus areas with 467 public health objectives. These objectives, developed and selected through consultation with a broad range of organizations, groups, and individuals, provide a framework for monitoring and measuring improvements in health status of the American population over the ten-year period from 2000 to 2010. Click on any of the 28 focus areas to go to a specific Healthy People 2010 objective. For example, under Diabetes there are several specific public health objectives including Objective 05-17, "Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who perform self-blood-glucose-monitoring at least once daily". To find out the baseline and target goals for this objective click on the Objective to go directly to the Healthy People 2010 chapter on diabetes.
To search PubMed for the latest literature on this health objective, click on the PubMed icon next to the objective.
Public health librarians and subject experts developed these search strategies to find the most current and relevant information on selected Health People 2010 objectives. Click on the Details tab in PubMed to see all the work that went into formulating the search query and the MeSH terms used. The Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project also provides access to relevant links in MedlinePlus, the Guide to Community Preventive Services, and the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. The Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project can also be accessed from the Pre-Formulated and Filtered Searches of Published Studies section of the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Web site, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph. Hathy Simpson, Public Health Coordinator |
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