Leading health indicators for healthy people 2020
Subtitle: letter report
By: Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780309186377
Subjects: Health Status Indicators; Health status indicators; Health surveys; Health Surveys; Public health; Public Health
Description: "For the past three decades, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over each 10-year span. Under each of these Healthy People initiatives, HHS established health targets and monitored how well people were reaching them over time. In response to a request from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) established the Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020 to develop and recommend 12 indicators and 24 objectives for consideration by HHS for guiding a national health agenda and for consideration for inclusion in Healthy People 2020. The work of the committee built upon the 1999 IOM report, Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010, and on the work of the Committee on the State of the USA Health Indicators. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020 lays out the proposed agenda for the current decade, which will end in 2020"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-64).

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Healthy People 2020; title: Recommendations; title: Committee Process; title: Principles And Purpose; title: Framework For Selecting Indicators And Objectives; title: Objectives; title: Topics And Indicators; title: Importance Of Objectives; title: Suggestions For Unpopulated Healthy People 2020 Topic Areas.