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Show Health goals restated This health information is provided pro-vided by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield article titled "Health and Benefit Notes." By the year 2000, the United States should work to reduce the number of AIDS cases; curb sex among teen-agers; further cut tobacco use and promote healthier diets and more exercise among its citizens. Those are the top items among 298 listed as the nation's official health goals for the year 2000, as outlined recently by Health and Human Services secretary, Louis Sullivan. Many of the new health goals are carry-overs, or unmet goals from the last time the nation set its health agenda in 1980. The unmet goals include infant mortality, increased immunization against childhood diseases and a decrease in smoking. |