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Peer response to Adam
Evaluate the Healthy People 2030 goals and summarize two guidelines for health screenings or modifiable risk factors that can be recommended by the advanced practice nurse.
One goal within the Healthy People 2030 objectives is to increase the number of children who receive developmental screenings. The guideline is to perform developmental screenings at 9, 18, 24, and 30 months of age (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). The purpose of the screenings is to screen for conditions such as developmental delays and autism in order to identify and treat those conditions early as well as to evaluate how well children are developing physically, cognitively, and socially (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). Advanced practice nurses can recommend and perform these screenings to ensure proper development is taking place in their pediatric patients and to intervene as early as possible where appropriate. The baseline data suggests that 31.1 percent of children received these screenings, with a goal of 35.8 percent by 2030 (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).
A second goal from the Healthy People 2030 objectives is to reduce current tobacco use in adults. As a modifiable risk factor, tobacco use has the greatest association with the risk of developing at least one chronic disease (Ng et al., 2020). It is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). Baseline data shows about 21.3 percent of adults use tobacco in some form. The goal is 17.4 percent by 2030 (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). Recommendations to quit and resources for quitting can be provided by advanced practice nurses. If patients successfully quit tobacco use, they can add 10 or more years to their life expectancy (Chun, 2019). Counseling is an important strategy to encourage smoking cessation, although there are pharmacologic options that are effective in helping quit smoking that can be offered to patients (Chun, 2019).
References
Chun E. M. (2019). Smoking Cessation Strategies Targeting Specific Populations. Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases, 82(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2017.0101
Ng, R., Sutradhar, R., Yao, Z., Wodchis, W. P., & Rosella, L. C. (2019). Smoking, drinking, diet and physical activity—modifiable lifestyle risk factors and their associations with age to first chronic disease. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(1), 113–130. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz078
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (n.d.). Social determinants of health. Healthy People 2030. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-da…
