scholarly journals Trends in Oral Health by Poverty Status as Measured by Healthy People 2010 Objectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 817-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Dye ◽  
Gina Thornton-Evans
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Poverty Status ◽  
Healthy People 2010

scholarly journals Orofacial Pain: Patient Satisfaction and Delay of Urgent Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Riley ◽  
Gregg H. Gilbert ◽  
Marc W. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
African American ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Orofacial Pain ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Pain Patient ◽  
Painful Symptom ◽  
Healthy People 2010 ◽  
Hispanic White

Objective. Accomplishing the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating disparities in oral disease will require a better understanding of the patterns of health care associated with orofacial pain. This study examined factors associated with pain-related acute oral health care. Methods. The authors used data on 698 participants in the Florida Dental Care Study, a study of oral health among dentate adults aged 45 years and older at baseline. Results. Fifteen percent of the respondents reported having had at least one dental visit as the result of orofacial pain. The majority of the respondents reportedly delayed contacting a dentist for at least one day; however, there was no difference between respondents reporting pain as the initiating symptom and those with other problems. Once respondents decided that dental services were needed, those with a painful symptom were nearly twice as likely as those without pain to want to be seen immediately. Rural adults were more likely than urban adults to report having received urgent dental care for a painful symptom. When orofacial pain occurred, those who identified as non-Hispanic African American were more likely than those who identified as non-Hispanic white to delay care rather than to seek treatment immediately, and women were more likely then men. Having a pain-related oral problem was associated with significantly less satisfaction with the services provided; non-Hispanic African American respondents were less likely than non-Hispanic white respondents to report being very satisfied, and rural residents were less likely than urban residents. Furthermore, men were more likely than women to suffer with orofacial pain without receiving either scheduled dental care or an urgent visit. Conclusions. Barriers to care are complex and likely to be interactive, but must be understood before the goals of Healthy People 2010 can be accomplished.

Health Disparities and the Law: Wrongs in Search of a Right

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 363-380
Author(s):  
Mary Anne Bobinski
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Coercion ◽  
Healthy People 2010 ◽  
Over Time

Healthy People 2010 provides our Nation with the wide range of public health opportunities that exist in the first decade of the 21st century. With 467 objectives in 28 focus areas, Healthy People 2010 will be a tremendously valuable asset … . Healthy People 2010 reflects the very best in public health planning—it is comprehensive, it was created by a broad coalition of experts from many sectors, it has been designed to measure progress over time, and, most important, it clearly lays out a series of objectives to bring better health to all people in this country.The current responses to the traditional health perils … have been weakened. At the same time, it seems to this outsider as though the entire public health establishment is united around the proposition that massive public action should be taken to deal with the new “epidemics,” such as obesity and diabetes … . But the use of the term “epidemic” is just the wrong way to think about this issue. There are no noncommunicable epidemics … . Yet the designation [of] obesity as a public health epidemic is designed to signal that state coercion is appropriate … .

scholarly journals Reducing Noise-induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) to Achieve Us Healthy People 2010 Goals

2006 ◽  
Vol 163 (suppl_11) ◽  
pp. S122-S122 ◽  
Author(s):  
H J Hoffman ◽  
C-W Ko ◽  
C L Themann ◽  
C F Dillon ◽  
J R Franks
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Noise Induced Hearing Loss ◽  
Healthy People 2010

Proportion of Trips Made by Walking: Estimating a State-Level Baseline for Healthy People 2010 Objective 22–14

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann P. Rafferty ◽  
Harry B. McGee ◽  
Karen A. Petersmarck ◽  
Corinne E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Healthy People 2010

scholarly journals Evaluation of African American Adolescent Health Status With Gender Comparison

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Health Status ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
African American Adolescent ◽  
Healthy People 2010

The goals of Healthy People 2010 are to increase the quality of life and life expectancy, and eliminate health disparities. There is no clear picture, however, if these goals are being addressed by African American adolescents. This study was conducted to evaluate health status of African American adolescents aged 13-19 in Florida’s Big Bend Region. Healthy People 2010 objectives were consulted for the evaluation. Responses from a convenience sample of 35 participants (63% female, 34% male) who completed a survey comprised of questions based on Likert scale are summarized here. The results show that the African American adolescents are engaging in some physical activity; however, only about half of them reported maintaining a healthy body weight. The majority of the adolescents reported avoiding smoking, but fewer adolescents reported avoiding drinking alcohol. Only a small percentage of the adolescents reported that their friends carried a gun or knife to school within the last 30 days; the percentage increased when the adolescents were asked if their friends got into a fist fight within the last 30 days. The adolescents sampled in this study have only achieved the Healthy People 2010 objectives in one of the health concern areas examined herein. It is also important to note that there are substantial gender-based disparities. In order to meet all Healthy People 2010 objectives, health education and promotion must be increased. Future research should explore different aspects of health status of adolescents in general, and further examine gender disparities and contributing factors.

Racial Health Disparities and Questions of Evidence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Average ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Healthy People 2010

The United States Healthy People 2010 initiative, designed to focus nationally funded health research and care on achieving a set of nationwide goals, was directed toward the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities. While racial and ethnic disparities are complex (with the health of some minority groups surpassing the national average), the health of black Americans continues to fall short of the national average. By focusing on the presumptions embedded in the design of health disparities research, this chapter addresses why Healthy People 2010 largely failed to reduce racial health inequality. Importantly, in thinking about health inequalities, researchers initially failed to consider how race is socially constructed; how data collection is never value-neutral (see King, chapter 8, this volume); and, finally, the limits of randomized control trials (deductive methods) when it comes to making sense of complex behavioral and structural data. The chapter ends by describing how ethnographic insights can help complicate the assumptions and conclusions of health disparities research.

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