Eric Baumgartner, MD, MPH Chief, Bureau of Managed Care, Texas Department of Health Focus on measures that will drive action, leading to health improvements. Focus on the important health topics.
Health is influenced by factors beyond health and medicine.
Give consideration to the human ecology model of health. The leading health indicators will be more useful if standards are developed, performance can be tracked and service providers can be compared. Focus on assets of communities as well as risk, threat, hazard data that will motivate community members and professionals. Consider a process for validating data and ways to encourage system improvement. Need to strive for measurability at the Federal, State and local levels.