Stakeholders Revisit Healthy People 2000 to Maximize the Impact of 2010

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Chapter 1. Introduction and Background 

• Introduction
• Background

Chapter 2. Findings

• Findings from All Sources
• Major Findings from the Steering Committee
• Findings from the Consortium Focus Groups

Chapter 3. Methods

• Initial Interviews
• Steering Committee Retreat
• Consortium Focus Groups
• Analysis

APPENDIX A.

Steering Committee Retreat Proceedings

Morning Plenary Session

Healthy People 2000 Steering Committee Retreat

Breakout Group #1

• Flexibility to serve State and local needs
• Reducing the size of the document and number of objectives and priority areas
• Restructuring organizing principles: dual framework

Breakout Group #2

• Change with reason, no need to reinvent
• Don't reorganize by life stages
• Prioritize by issues having overall health impact
• Address special populations
• Include overarching non-health outcome objectives such as insurance coverage and managed care
• System of exclusion of Healthy People objectives
• Create a public document
• Restate criteria for inclusion of objectives

Breakout Group #3

• Don't change for change's sake
• Expand the number of objectives
• Revise the criteria for inclusion
• Identify responsible agency for implementing and tracking objective.
• Pay more attention to Goals Two and Three

Breakout Group #4

• Prioritize by life stage
• Organize by life space or setting
• Reconsider criteria for including objectives
• Special population targets
• Communicating Healthy People to the public

Breakout Group #5

• Less is more
• Remove service and protection objectives
• Organize by life stages
• Organize by actual causes of death or risks
• Reword overarching goals
• Special target populations
• Give the document more public appeal
• Create Different Versions of the Document for Different Audiences

Afternoon Plenary Session

• Criteria for Measurability of Objectives

Healthy People 2000 Steering Committee Retreat Participants

 APPENDIX B.

 Summary of Seven Healthy People 2000 Consortium Focus Groups

• Consortium Pilot Group
• Thursday Group November 14, 1997
• Friday Morning November 15, 1996
• Friday Afternoon Group I
• Friday Afternoon Group II
• HMO/Purchasers Group

 APPENDIX C.

Healthy People 2000 Steering Committee Retreat

Healthy People 2000 Consortium Focus Group Moderator's Guides

• Pilot - Washington, D.C. Area - October, 1996
• New York Groups November, 1996
• HMO/Purchasers Group

APPENDIX D.

• Handouts for Focus Groups

STAKEHOLDERS REVISIT HEALTHY PEOPLE 2000 

TO MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT FOR 2010

FINAL REPORT FOR DELIVERY ORDER #17

OF CONTRACT #282-92-0

SUBMITTED BY THE

CENTER FOR HEALTH OUTCOMES IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH

Institute for Health Policy Outcomes and Human Values

George Washington University Medical Center

Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr. P.H., Director

Barbara Kreling, Research Scientist

July, 1997

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