A Return to Normal Is Not Good Enough.

This commitment to public education, health literacy, and health promotion is likely to provide advances across a range of illnesses and population subgroups. Keywords: COVID-19; epidemiology; health literacy EN COVID-19 epidemiology health literacy e893 e897 5 05/06/21 20210504 NES 210504 Now that we have turned the page on the I annus horribilis i of 2020, and vaccines are being rolled out across the United States, Americans have begun to contemplate a return to normal prepandemic life, while people in other parts of the world continue to suffer. Essential to this call is the notion of health equity - that all those living in the United States should have the same access to care, which is the cornerstone of the AHA's 2024 impact goal: I Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. Even before the pandemic, the AHA had shifted its focus from concentrating solely on the reduction of cardiovascular and stroke mortality to a more positive goal: improvement of cardiovascular health across the life course. [Extracted from the article]