Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 Final Report (1999) / Chapter Skim
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The committee has made every effort to ensure that these proposed indicator sets were responsive to the original charge from the Department as well as the comments and suggestions received through the mail, electronic mail, regional meetings, and public hearing. The committee strongly endorses the need for a single, small set of leading health indicators that could reflect progress toward the health goals ofthe nation.
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COMMITMENT OF ADEQUATE RESOURCES AND EFFORT FOR DISSEMINATION OF INDICATOR SET The committee strongly urges the U.S. Depa1l~nent of Health and Human Services to carry forward this concept of leading health indicators for the duration of Healthy People 2010.
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Furthermore, in reducing and eliminating health disparities, the essential thrust of the nation's efforts must be to raise everyone to the highest standard of health rather than to seek some lower common denominator. The concept of leading health indicators is one that can capture the imagination of the nation as a whole and lead to actions at the federal, state, local, and community levels to improve the overall health status of the nation's populations.
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In particular, indicators that apply to health care access, health insurance, health promotion and risk reduction behaviors, and health outcomes should be examined for population groups with different levels and kinds of disabilities. Comparisons of the status of specific indicators should also be made to the general population.
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Committee members had differing opinions, however, about whether a measure of poverty or socioeconomic status should tee included in the proposed sets of leading health indicators. This represented an awareness that social issues such as poverty are outside the purview of the public and private health communities.
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It would be best if the collection of data on each of the indicators were to occur on an regular basis rather than to be tied to surveys that obtain data at only single points in time. Furthermore, methods of data analysis should be defined at the outset and should be adhered to dunug the course of implementation of the selected leading health indicator set.
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During the course of development of the three proposed indicator sets and the review of relevant data Issues, the committee came to recognize the imperative for resources to ensure that data are available for small jurisdictional regions throughout the United States. ~ addition, technical assistance will be essential at the local community level to ensure that these data are appropriately analyzed and interpreted.
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In the presence of collaborative, community-based partnerships, leading health indicators for Healthy People 2010 can be used as tools to mobilize efforts by the lay public and health professionals to become engaged in progress toward the health goals for the nation and to do so in a manner which prompts public understanding and policy actions related to the important determinants of that progress.
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1998. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Second interim Report.
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1995. Healthy People 2000 Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions.
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1979. Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
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