Tracking Healthy People 2010 is part of the Healthy People 2010 initiative that is coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Overall responsibility for planning and developing the content of the volume rested with the Division of Health Promotion Statistics (DHPS), Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Statistics (OAEHP), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under the direction of Diane K. Wagener and Richard J. Klein. Substantive review comments were received from Jennifer H. Madans, Acting Director, OAEHP, and Associate Director for Science, National Center for Health Statistics, and Deborah R. Maiese, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science. Production coordination responsibility was shared among the DHPS analysts: Colleen M. Ryan, Kathleen M. Turczyn, Jeanette Guyton-Krishnan, J. Fred Seitz, and Elizabeth W. Jackson. Substantial help with the production of this volume was also provided by Jennie A. Wald and David Fessler.
Part A, General Data Issues, was developed and coordinated by Richard J. Klein. Substantial contributions were made by several NCHS staff members, including Harry Rosenberg, Donna Pickett, Ken Keppel, Paul Placek, and Gerry Hendershot.
The DHPS analysts had primary responsibility for the content of Part B, Operational Definitions. This section could not have been completed without the critical technical and substantive support provided by members of the 28 Healthy People 2010 Work Groups, particularly the Work Group Coordinators, listed in Appendix A, and DHPS computer programming specialists Thomas C. Socey, Jean F. Williams, and Cheryl R. Willis. Substantive review was also provided by members of the Healthy People Steering Committee, listed in Appendix D, Healthy People 2010.
Although Kathleen Turczyn had general responsibility for Part C, Major Data Sources for Healthy People 2010, the content was mainly provided by the persons responsible for the data systems that were described. These persons included David Nelson and Craig Leutzinger for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; Alanna Moshfegh for the Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals; Gary Edgar, Eva Seiler, and Gena Hill for the HIV/AIDS Surveillance System; Kate Rickard for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; Andrea Kopstein and Arthur Hughes for the Monitoring the Future Study; Cathy Burt for the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey; Michael Rand for the National Crime Victimization Survey; Cliff Johnson and Susan Schober for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Ann Hardy for the National Health Interview Survey; Robert Pokras for the National Hospital Discharge Survey; Joe Gfroerer and Beatrice Rouse for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse; Nicole Smith for the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System and National
Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance; Carol Brown and Marc Tomlinson for the National Profile of Local Health Departments; William Mosher for the National Survey of Family Growth; Harry Rosenberg and Jeffrey Maurer for the mortality component of the National Vital Statistics System; Stephanie Ventura for the natality component of the National Vital Statistics System; Wendy Lynch and Stephanie Pronk for the 1999 National Worksite Health Promotion Survey; Laura Kann for the School Health Policies and Programs Study and for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System; Gabrielle Starr for the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System (STATE); Russ Roegner for the STD Case Reporting Surveillance System; and Lawrence Agodoa for the United States Renal Data System.
Help with the production of the appendices was provided by Jennie A. Wald, David Fessler, Cheryl R. Willis, Elizabeth W. Jackson, and Colleen M. Ryan, and Kathleen Turczyn under the direction of Richard J. Klein.
Social & Health Services, Ltd., (SHS) edited Tracking Healthy People 2010 and prepared the document for publication, under the direction of senior managing editor, Nancy Klein. Other contributing staff members included Tiffanie Bilbrey, Carolyn Diaz, Lew Eigen, Eric Moore, Elaine Rahbar, Carli Richard, Steve Sonner, Emily Tinkler, and Arlene Weitzman.
Special thanks are due to Carter Blakey, ODPHP, and Mary Moien, SHS, for ensuring editorialconsistency between Healthy People 2010 and Tracking Healthy People 2010.