Is New York State reaching its Healthy People 2010 objectives?
Healthy People 2010 is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. It is designed to achieve two overarching goals: (1) increase quality and years of healthy life and (2) eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population. Because of the effectiveness of water fluoridation in preventing tooth decay, the Healthy People program has objectives specific to water fluoridation.5 Listed below are three of those related objectives and the status in New York State regarding each objective .
