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Report from the HHS Working Group on Sentinel Objectives U.S. Department of Health and Human Services March 1998 U.S. Department of Health and Human
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CONTENTS Letter to Susanne A. Stoiber from HHS Working Group on Section One: Healthy People 2000 and Leading Health Indicators Background on the Healthy People Initiative Section Two: The Use of Indicators Current Health Indicators Section Three: Potential Models Section Four: Candidate Sets of Leading Health Indicators Criteria for Leading Health Indicators Section Five: Available Data Sources Key HHS Data Sources Section Six: Considerations for Implementation Public Understanding of the Indicators Appendices A.--List of Working Group members
The HHS Working Group on Sentinel Objectives for Healthy People 2010 would like to acknowledge the contributions of many individuals to this report. Leon Gordis and Jonathan Samet provided guidance about methodologic issues during the formation of the working group in October 1997. Jane Durch, Neal Halfon, and Michael Stoto provided input about the uses of indicator sets and recent trends in development of such sets. Matthew McKenna educated the working group about the strengths and weaknesses of summary measures such as disability-adjusted life years. Rosie Dempsey provided consultations about communication issues. Fred Seitz, Kathleen Turczyn, and Colleen Ryan provided information about available data sets. Olivia Carter-Pokras and Phillip Smith attended many of the meetings and made substantial contributions to the report. This also is true for many staff members from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, including Linda Meyers, David Baker, Mary Jo Deering, Matthew Guidry, Debbie Maiese, Dalton Paxman, Janice Radak, Irene Randell, and Mark Smolinski, and for Jennifer Beale, from the National Academy of Sciences. We thank them for their willingness to contribute to this effort. The working group also extends a special thanks to Susanne Stoiber, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion), who conceptualized the leading health indicators as a way to extend the reach of Healthy People beyond health professionals to the public, opinion leaders, and non-health professionals. We appreciate her leadership and the many innovative ideas she shared with us. Finally, we would like to express deep appreciation for the stellar work of Linda Bailey, a member of the working group, who provided vital guidance and support throughout the course of this project. |