Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Final Report by Institute of Medicine

Author:Institute of Medicine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine : Public Health and Prevention
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1999-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

Suggested Steps for Action on Proposed Indicators

Each of the three proposed sets of leading health indicators were selected, in part, because their conceptual frameworks acknowledge that the nation’s health objectives can only be met if those with professional or personal concerns about health and medicine work collaboratively with those in other sectors of society. The range of potential activities that might result in improvements to one or more of the indicators in the three proposed sets is very broad. Consequently, it will be possible for the traditional users of the Healthy People agenda to enlist the interest and mobilize the resources of many new and diverse groups in both the public and private sector. Actions are possible on each of indicators at the national, state and local level, in both the public and the private sectors, and by individuals, families, and communities.

The committee discussed a wide range of potential strategies for action that might result in improved status for the indicators within the three proposed sets. These suggestions are meant to provide general guidance to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and are in no way intended to be all inclusive or mandatory. Rather, these action steps are included in this report simply to provide the department and its collaborating agencies with a wide selection of potential intervention strategies. The committee does not expect each suggestion to be acted upon and suggests that actions directed toward a numerous set of diverse interventions may, in fact, be unlikely to have sufficient specificity and sensitivity to achieve sustained changes in any given indicator. The sections below provide specific examples of suggested actions and actors for each of the 19 unique indicators included in at least one of the three proposed indicator sets.

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