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4 Development of Leading Health Indicator Sets
4 Development of Leading Health Indicator Sets
Pages 19-24
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Public Health Service agencies, and other DHHS agencies. This work group was charged with preparing a background paper that would include information on the history of the Healthy People initiative, provide the rationale for identifying and using leading health indicators, and describe the potential uses and applications of leading sets of indicators.
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. DHHS then turned to the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of lOM to convene a committee to consider the issue of leading indicators and to suggest a minimum of two sets of indicators for consideration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as the leading health indicators for Healthy People 2010.
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Furthermore, the proposed health communication plan must be dynamic and responsive to changes in the level ofthe population's awareness ofthe leading indicator set from 2000 to 2010. A strong evaluation plan will provide an ongoing assessment of progress, which in turn, will promote changes in dissemination strategies to ensure that the message about Healthy People 2010 and the leading health indicator set becomes firmly established in the awareness ofthe general population.
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Similarly, the concept of measurable data can be substituted for the concept of data availability and multilevel trackability, and measurable data can be expanded to include data reliability and validity. Two additional criteria were also considered by the committee: sensitivity to change over a reasonable period oftime and the ability to motivate action across multiple levels of the general population, including families, individuals, and community groups.
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Dissemination of information about both Healthy People 2010 and the leading health indicators for 2010 will require two distinct dissemination plans adjusted to the various target populations. The diversity ofthe general population, which is defined as an audience for the leading health indicators for 201 0, raises issues and concerns about communication and dissemination plans that are language appropriate, culturally appropriate, and generally responsive to the unique informational needs of the five target groups categorized by: age, gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and educational attainment.
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Previous efforts to disseminate and achieve broad population commitment to discrete sets of leading health indicators have been unsuccessful largely because these and other issues were inadequately addressed. It is the intention of this committee to recommend additional actions to ensure successful implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of the leading health indicator set for 2010.
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