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Nursing Agenda for Health Care Reform

This paper will critique the documents Healthy People 2000 and Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform. Healthy People 2000 is concerned with creating a future in which the quality of life is increased while the number of deaths are decreased. Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform is a call for changes which will result in better and more affordable health care for more Americans. The arguments in both of these documents have their respective strengths and weaknesses.

In Healthy People 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expresses the hope that the year 2000 will see fewer deaths than today, as well as an overall improvement in the health and well-being of the nation's people. It is interesting to note that the World Health Organization has established similar goals for the year 2000 (Styles, 1990, p. 347). However, although the text of Healthy People 2000 is useful as a guideline to possible changes in the future, other predictors take into account factors that this document seems to miss. For example, Coile (1990) has pointed out that the advent of high technology in medicine is an important factor which will affect the future evolution of the health care system as a whole.

Healthy People 2000 is concerned with national objectives in its effort to make all Americans healthy by the end of the century. Because of this perspective, it would seem that the authors of the report might favor national policies for future improvement in health care delivery. Healthy People 2000 not only fails to call for a national agenda; it also urges communities to "translate national objectives into State and local action" (p. 8). Although it is true that local action is required in all reform efforts, the perspective taken in Healthy People 2000 does not acknowledge the importance of standardized national guidelines in an effort of this magnitude. The best way for the authors of Healthy People 2000 to achieve their...

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