Question

Compare and contrast the approaches to health promotion in Healthy People 2020 and the UN Goals for Sustainable Development

Answer 1

Health is a resource, that provide the strategic comprehensive framework for promotion of health and prevention of the diseases. The mission of health people 2020 gives the assertiveness to all in a view to reflect on health and ways to enhance the health through various health care service accessibility.

State and local stakeholders from public health, education health care, environment business, housing transportation and other sectors are using the HP2020.

The healthy people initiative is grounded with the principle that sets the national objectives and monitoring progress can motivate the action. HP2020 aims to provide a renewed focus on the health identification, measuring, tracking and reducing health disparities an approach featuring the health disparities and ecological approach of health.

On the other hand there are lot of challenges when this plan is been implemented such as:

* there are major difference in HP2010 and HP2020 which brings much confusions

* the transition may be challenging which makes federal and state to be on stake.

UN goals of sustainable development

* no poverty, better economic growth to provide sustainable job and promote equality

* zero hunger

* good health and welbeing

* quality education

* gender equality

* clear water and sanitation

* affordable and clean energy

* decent work and economic gowth