This will help communities and groups to pull out information that will be helpful to them. Mental health issues are important to address. We should address alternative therapies, cultural competency, the training of healthy professionals and the training of people to be good consumers of health services. Objectives should relate to identifying adequate funding and resources to address priorities. The objectives should support the shift of funds from technology and medical care to prevention.
More priorities mean more mandates and fewer resources to go to any one priority.
We need more resources. More attention should be paid to education and economic status. Behaviors are interrelated and should often be addressed together. One focus area should be to decrease poverty. There could be a distinction between outcome and process objectives by making the outcome objectives the same and specialize the process objectives to meet needs of specific populations.