Issue Brief Summary

New Jersey's Public Health Agenda for the Next Millennium:
Healthy New Jersey 2010
December, 1999

Offers overview of HEALTHY NEW JERSEY 2010, the state's "Health Agenda for the First Decade of the New Millennium." The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has released its draft of HEALTHY NEW JERSEY 2010, which sets outs 142 health objectives in 19 major areas of health, including health care access, maternal and child health and the prevention and reduction of specific diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, cancer and asthma. The draft report is New Jersey's first public health agenda to contain a discrete section on preserving the health of seniors, as well as setting targets for closing the gaps related to racial and ethnic health disparities. How will state policymakers and the public health community respond to achieving the new public health goals set for 2010? [10pp]

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