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**About      Healthy People 2010**

In January 2000, the      Department of Health and Human Services launched Healthy People 2010, a      comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda.      Healthy People 2010 contains 467 objectives designed to serve as a road      map for improving the health of all people in the United States during the      first decade of the 21st century.

Healthy People 2010      builds on similar initiatives pursued over the past two decades. Two      overarching goals--increase quality and years of healthy life, and      eliminate health disparities--served as a guide for developing objectives      that will actually measure progress. The objectives are organized in **28      focus areas**, each representing an important public health area.      Each objective has a target for improvements to be achieved by the year      2010. A limited set of the objectives, known as the **Leading      Health Indicators**, are intended to help everyone more easily      understand the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and      to encourage wide participation in improving health in the next decade.      These Indicators were chosen based on their ability to motivate action,      the availability of data to measure their progress, and their relevance as      broad public health issues.

NCHS is responsible for      coordinating the effort to monitor the Nation s progress toward the      objectives, using data from NCHS data systems as well as many other data      sources. National data are gathered from more than 150 different data      sources, from more than seven Federal Government Departments (Health and      Human Services, Commerce, Education, Justice, Labor, Transportation, and      the Environmental Protection Agency), and from voluntary and private      non-governmental organizations. To the extent appropriate, data for the      objective are provided for subgroups defined by relevant dimensions (such      as sociodemographic subgroups of the population, health status, or major      industrial classifications).

Data are made available      through **DATA2010**,      an interactive database system accessible through the NCHS web site and      the **CDC WONDER** system.      Spreadsheet files containing Healthy People 2010-related data--including **Leading      Health Indicators**, **Selected      Mortality Objectives**, **Selected      Natality Objectives**, and **Health      Status Indicators**, by States are also available for downloading      through the NCHS web site.

Because these      objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these      objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all      levels of government and on non-governmental organizations to assess      objective progress. Therefore, NCHS is preparing a document entitled      Tracking Healthy People 2010 that will be published in November 2000 which      includes technical information so the many partners in the effort      understand how the data are derived and the major statistical issues.

 

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This page last reviewed May 02, 2000

**U.S.    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES****Centers    for Disease Control and Prevention**    National Center for Health Statistics    Division of Data Services     Hyattsville, MD    20782-2003    (301) 458-4636
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