To increase quality and years of healthy life, Healthy People 2020 focuses on four areas. One of those areas is
a. Allowing people to continue current behaviors to reduce the stress of change.
b. Focusing only on individual health changes that will lead to better communities.
c. Creating social and physical environments that promote good health.
d. Focusing on illness treatment to provide fast recuperation.
ANS: C
Healthy People 2020 includes four goals, one of which is to create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. The other three include (1) attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; (2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups; and (3) promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
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