Directions: Explore the Healthy People 2030 website and pick one health condition or behavior you are interested in exploring. Write a small paragraph on this topic and answer these questions:
What is the Healthy People Objective you want to research?
Why do you want to research this topic?
What happens if this objective goal is met?
What happens if this objective goal is not met?
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You can go to this link to: Browse Objectives – Healthy People 2030 | health.gov.
Health Conditions (you can pick of of the above topic)
Addiction
Arthritis
Blood Disorders
Cancer
Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Pain
Dementias
Diabetes
Foodborne Illness
Health Care-Associated Infections
Heart Disease and Stroke
Infectious Disease
Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Oral Conditions
Osteoporosis
Overweight and Obesity
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Respiratory Disease
Sensory or Communication Disorders
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Summary
Chronic pain is a serious health problem — and one of the key underlying causes of the opioid crisis. Physical therapy interventions and strategies to help people manage their pain, like physical activity interventions, can help treat chronic pain along with non-opioid medicinTopic: Chronic Pain
Workgroup: Chronic Pain Workgroup
Other objectives you may be interested in
Increase self-management of chronic pain that frequently limits life or work activities — CP?D01
Reduce the impact on loved ones of chronic pain that frequently limits life or work activities — CP?D02
Reduce the proportion of adults with arthritis who have moderate or severe joint pain — A?01
Reduce the proportion of people who misused prescription opioids in the past year — SU?19
Reduce the proportion of people who started misusing prescription opioids in the past year — SU?20