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Healthy People 2030 Initiative and MAP-IT: A Summary

This essay gives a brief summary of the origin and the role played by the Healthy People Initiative. Besides, the role of Matrix Assisting Practitioner’s Intervention Planning Tool (MAP-IT) in transformation of research into practice is also summarized.

Healthy People 2030 is the 5^th edition of the Healthy People. It builds on lessons and aims at new challenges experienced in its four decades. Healthy People is a national effort which set objectives and goals to improve the well-being and health of people in the U.S. The initiative was established in 1979 and has since been updated with 10years objectives and goals. It is focused on reducing preventable injury and death. It includes quantifiable and ambitious objectives to realize national disease prevention and health promotion goals for the U.S. within a 10-year period (HealthyPeople.gov, 2020). Apart from specifying goals and objectives for the U.S. healthcare sector, it also provides users with access to data on changes in terms of the status of the U.S. health. Communities are allowed to alter Healthy People objectives and goals to meet their own needs and to use them for setting priorities for their population groups and region (HealthyPeople.gov, 2020).

            The MAP-IT is a tool that helps researchers to link research to practice as well as design multicomponent interventions. MAP-IT is evidence-based and theory-based. It is assist practitioners when planning complex interventions. MAP-IT addresses the fact the in-depth and extensive scientific knowledge is essential to conceptualize results of original research and to ensure that research results are applicable to real-life conditions (Hansen et al., 2017).

 In conclusion, Healthy People 2030 provides goals and objectives to be made by the healthcare system while MAP-IT helps practitioners to transform research into practice.