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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Sample Set B Indicators." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Second Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6381.
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Appendix B
Sample Set B Indicators

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Sample Set B Indicators." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Second Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6381.
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Sample Set B Indicators

Criteria for Indicators

Preventable  Deaths

Preventable Morbidity

Disabilities

Mental Health

Health Status

Ecological

Prev. Health Behavior

Mental Health

1. the general public, opinion leaders, and the health and medical communities can easily interpret and understand the indicators

TBD*

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

2. they reflect topics that affect the health profile of the nation's populations in important ways

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

3. they address problems that are sensitive to change and have a substantial impact on prospects for the health of the nation's population

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

4. they can be linked to one or more of the full set of Healthy People 2010 objectives

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

5. they are generally reliable measures of the state of the nation's health (or that of a subpopulation) to ensure that the problem is reflective of a broad scope perspective for a significant proportion of the population

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

6. they have multilevel trackability to ensure that data can be anticipated at multiple levels (national, state, local, and community) and for selected population groups

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

7. they are reflective of a balance in the selection of targets that does not overemphasize any one group or health condition

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

8. they have utility in directing public policy and operation initiatives

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

9. they must be catalytic in nature to motivate actions across multiple select populations as defined by race, ethnicity, gender, age, education levels, socio-economic levels, and disability status

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

10. they must have a dissemination plan that will ensure that messages will be appropriate and understandable by diverse populations. The frequency of these messages will be sufficient to provoke changes in knowledge and behaviours, and the use of multi cultural and multidisciplinary strategies for communication and intervention will be emphasized

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

11. they will address primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention issues as well as environmental and socio-cultural determinants of health

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

12 they will encompass the Healthy People 2010 vision of eliminating health disparities and improving the number and quality of years of healthy life.

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

13. they will effect positive changes and promote behaviour change by encouraging and supporting involvement of the general public and select populations that will result in significant and sustained changes in health outcomes

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

14. they will establish a level of credibility and support from individuals, groups, organizations, health professionals, and others involved in the delivery of health care education and services to the general public and select population groups

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

* To be determined following collection of additional information re data sources and/or promotion of changes in the public's knowledge, and health behaviors.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Sample Set B Indicators." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Second Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6381.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Sample Set B Indicators." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Second Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6381.
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During Spring 1998, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) contracted with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a multi phase project resulting in the development of sets of leading health indicators that would provide a 'face' for Healthy People 2010. Of equal or greater importance was the development of indicator sets that would attract and sustain public attention and motivation to engage in healthy behaviors. Development of such leading health indicators sets is intended to move the United States toward achievement of more positive health outcomes for the general population and for select population groups defined by race, ethnicity, gender, age, socio-economic status, level of education, and disability.

This second interim report presents a summary of the efforts of the IOM Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 to develop sample sets of leading health indicators that would meet the requisite functions of attracting and sustaining attention and motivating engagement in healthier behaviors by the public. Reactions to this report and more specifically, to the potential leading health indicator sets and suggested measures, will be solicited from the public health community as well as representatives of diverse consumer audiences through electronic communication, regional public meetings convened by DHHS, focus group discussions with target populations, and other information-gathering techniques. Review of information from these various sources will be summarized in a third and final report for DHHS to be published in April 1999. The third report will also include the committee's final recommendations regarding the functions to be fulfilled by leading health indicators, will define specific criteria underlying the selection of leading health indicators, and will identify specific sets of leading health indicators to be promoted and monitored during the decade 2000 to 2010.

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