Public Health and Healthy People 2010 Agenda
Contemporary society faces the problem of sexually transmitted diseases and syphilis as one of such diseases. The Healthy People 2010 is the agenda designed by the national organization that provide the population with health care services and establishes effective strategies. This agenda includes sexually transmitted diseases and other areas of concern that can be used to promote a healthy lifestyle among people of different generations.
In this respect, the Healthy People 2010 national agenda contains strategies and practices aimed at prevention of illness and promotion of health that were introduced in 2000 to enable the health care organizations to provide appropriate health care services to the population of the United states for the period of 2000-2010 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009a, n. p.).
Syphilis is one of the sexually transmitted diseases that causes ulcerating chancre spread to all body tissues. Demographic peculiarities of people that live on the territory of the United States are also taken into consideration while creating this national agenda on health care.
Healthy People 2010 Goals and Its Relation to Syphilis
As the national agenda Healthy People 2010 is aimed at solving a number of health care problems and those related to the health of the population, it is necessary to indicate the key concepts that should be analyzed in terms of syphilis as a sexually transmitted disease. The main problem is that the problem of syphilis is a burning issue for different generations.
As such, those young adults or even students at school who start their sexual life know little, if any, about sex and sexually transmitted diseases. In this respect, education of such people and prevention of illness are important strategies in solving this problem.
So, the Healthy People national agenda includes different areas of concern that are related to syphilis as a sexually transmitted disease. For instance, access to quality health services as well as educational and community-based programs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009b, n. p.) should be viewed as ways for promoting healthy lifestyle with regard to syphilis.
Though the aspect of immunization and infectious diseases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009b, n. p.) has little relation to syphilis, family planning issues are affected by the problem of syphilis because each parent should be concerned about the health of a future baby and potential threat of danger imposed by syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.
At the same time, such issues as injury and violence prevention and maternal, infant, and child health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009b, n. p.) as well as public health infrastructure should be taken into account while developing strategies for preventing syphilis because people suffer from violence when they are infected with syphilis due to violent actions.
Besides, substance abuse can be considered one of the reasons for being infected with syphilis when people are ready for anything only to receive a dose of a drug.
Syphilis in Leading Health Indicators
As syphilis as a sexually transmitted disease is one of the leading health indicators (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009c, n. p.), it is necessary to find solution to the problem of ineffective education of people about the danger of sexually transmitted diseases, symptoms, and ways of treatment. In this respect, the national agenda should include cooperation with educational institutions to propagate safe sex and prevent syphilis.
Reference List
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009a). Healthy People 2010. Web.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009b). Healthy People 2010. Web.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009c). Healthy People 2010. Web.