## Appendix A. Healthy People 2010 Consultative Process

#### 1995

Healthy People Consortium expanded to include all State mental health,
substance abuse, and environmental agencies to encourage their
participation in the development of the objectives and their use of the
objectives at State and local levels.

#### September 12-13, 1996

CDC/NCHS convenes APHA, ASTHO, and NACCHO with States in the CDC
Assessment Initiative to examine the data successes and challenges with
Healthy People 2000. States participating include Iowa, Kansas, Ohio,
Oregon, Minnesota, Missouri, and South Carolina.

#### October 1996 to February 1997 

Healthy People Consortium member focus groups review Healthy People 2000
evaluating what has been useful and should be preserved and what should
be recast.

#### November 15, 1996 

Healthy People Consortium Meeting in New York, New York, *Building the
Prevention Agenda for 2010: Lessons Learned*. Keynote speaker Dr. Ilona
Kickbusch, Director of the Division of Health Promotion, Education, and
Communication of the World Health Organization, delivers keynote
address.

#### 1997 and ongoing:

Agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services begin to
lead Healthy People Work Groups to develop draft objectives for public
review and comment.

#### April 21, 1997

Secretary's Council on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
holds a public meeting on the Healthy People 2010 objectives. The
Council reviews lessons learned from Healthy People 2000, addresses the
need to improve data collection, and discusses the proposed framework
for Healthy People 2010, which incorporates two overarching goals:
increase years of healthy life and eliminate health disparities.

#### May 14, 1997

Measuring Performance Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead, a Federal
interagency conference, is held to examine issues in performance
measurement under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
focused on the linkage between Healthy People and annual GPRA measures.

#### July 1997

Release of *Stakeholder's Report*, announcing the results of the
Consortium focus group process, on www.health.gov/healthypeople.

#### July 1997 

Partnership for Prevention, a Healthy People Consortium member, with
support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, establishes the Healthy
People Business Advisory Council to increase the involvement of the
business community in Healthy People 2010 development.

#### September 15, 1997, to December 15, 1997

*Developing Objectives for Healthy People 2010* is released in printed
and electronic form on the Internet for a 90-day public comment period
on the goals, objectives, and framework of Healthy People.

#### November 7, 1997

Healthy People Consortium Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, Reducing
Health Disparities: How Far Have We Come? Keynote speakers representing
minority population groups address disparities in health.

#### December 17, 1997

Nearly 800 comments are received on the Healthy People 2010 framework
and are available to the public on the Internet at
www.health.gov/healthypeople.

#### February 19-20, 1998

Symposium on National Strategies for Renewing Health for All at the Pan
American Health Organization engages 24 countries from the Western
Hemisphere in using health targets. Healthy People represents the United
States contribution to "World Health for All" strategy.

#### March 6, 1998

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Working Group on Sentinel
Objectives releases the *Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People
2010* report, which describes the potential uses for and provides
examples of possible approaches to sentinel objectives.

#### April 30, 1998 

Annual Secretary's Council public meeting takes place. The Council
endorses the goal of eliminating health disparities and affirms that one
target should be set for all population groups. The Council discusses
the proposed draft objectives for 2010 and approves the development of
leading health indicators, a set of selected objectives chosen to
capture the state of the Nation\'s health.

#### April to October 1998

Getting Started for 2010, a series of five audio conferences, features
national and State successes and challenges in using health objectives.
All 50 States participate.

#### August 1998

Institute of Medicine (IOM) releases its *Preliminary Report on the
Leading Health Indicators*.

#### September 15, 1998, to December 15, 1998 

*Healthy People 2010: Draft for Public Comment*, containing the draft of
531 objectives proposed in 26 focus areas, is released for public
comment. Comments accepted via the Internet, by mail, and at regional
meetings.

#### September 17-18, 1998

CDC/NCHS holds a workshop on measuring years of healthy life, resulting
in a report called *Identifying Summary Measures for Healthy People
2010.*

#### October 5-6, 1998

Two hundred and sixty-eight people attend the Regional Healthy People
Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to provide input on developing
Healthy People 2010 objectives.

#### October 21-22, 1998

Two hundred and thirty-six people attend the Regional Healthy People
Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, to provide input on developing
Healthy People 2010 objectives.

#### November 5-6, 1998

Four hundred and fifty-six people attend the Regional Healthy People
Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, to provide input on developing Healthy
People 2010 objectives.

#### November 13, 1998 

Four hundred and sixty-nine people attend the Public Hearing and Healthy
People Consortium Meeting, Building the Next Generation of Healthy
People, in Washington, D.C., with speakers Dr. Julius Richmond and Dr.
David Satcher.

#### December 2-3, 1998 

Three hundred and nineteen people attend the Regional Healthy People
Meeting in Seattle, Washington, to provide input on developing Healthy
People 2010 objectives.

#### December 9-10, 1998

Three hundred and fifty-four people attend the Regional Healthy People
Meeting in Sacramento, California, to provide input on developing
Healthy People 2010 objectives.

#### December 17, 1998

More than 11,000 public comments on the draft Healthy People 2010
objectives are received from people in every State, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Comments can be viewed at
www.health.gov/healthypeople.

#### January 1999 

IOM produces the report *Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People
2010: Second Interim Report*. The report summarizes the efforts of the
IOM Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 to
develop sample sets of leading health indicators.

#### January 25, 1999

The Partnerships for Health in the New Millennium Conference Planning
Committee, comprising representatives from the Healthy People
Consortium, Partnerships for Networked Consumer Health Information
Steering Committee, academia, State and local government, and private
organizations, identifies plenary speakers, develops the program, and
sets criteria for sessions for the conference.

#### April 1999

IOM produces the report *Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People
2010: Final Report*, detailing IOM's development of three sets of
leading health indicators.

#### April 23, 1999

Annual Secretary's Council public meeting takes place. The Council
reviews the IOM's report on leading health indicators and endorses the
general form of the emerging set of Leading Health Indicators, discusses
and helps refine the proposed draft objectives for 2010, and approves
plans for launching Healthy People 2010 in January 2000.

#### June 1999 and ongoing

State and local Healthy People 2010 plans are developed**.**

#### June 1999

Focus groups on Leading Health Indicators are conducted.

#### September 1999

*Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning* is
released as a resource for State and local planning. The Toolkit
includes national and State examples of engaging partners, setting
objectives, and sustaining the initiatives. *Healthy People 2010
Toolkit* is available on the Internet at
www.health.gov/healthypeople/state/toolkit.

#### January 25, 2000

Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General David Satcher
releases *Healthy People 2010* (Conference Edition) at the Partnerships
for Health in the New Millennium conference in Washington, D.C.