A community health nurse is conducting a presentation for a local community group on disabilities and includes information about Healthy People 2020 goals. When addressing these goals, the nurse identifies differences from the goals addressed by Healthy People 2010. The nurse determines that additional discussion is needed when the group identifies which concept as a critical difference?

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A comparison among Healthy People plans over the last decades underscores the emergence of new approaches to identifying priority areas and planning to improve the health of individuals with disabilities and chronic illness. In Healthy People 2000, only one priority was devoted to disability and chronic illness. Over the past two decades, interest in disability has accelerated. Areas that are focused on with Healthy People 2020 include the concepts that rather than individuals with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses being defined by their limiting conditions, they are viewed as having the potential to meet and exceed health promotion and disease prevention goals set for the nation's population as a whole; the approach to disability now emphasizes the principles of health promotion and disease prevention for those currently experiencing disabilities and/or chronic illness; and a growing realization that healthy life years for persons with disabilities equate to decreased health costs at local, state, and national levels, just as they do for persons without disabilities.

A Community Health Nurse Is Conducting a Presentation for a Local