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Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review
Thank you for your interest in the public comment period regarding the proposed changes to the Healthy People 2010 objectives through the Midcourse Review. The public comment period was open from August 15, 2005 to September 15, 2005 and is now closed. You may view proposed changes and view comments submitted.
Founded on data that enable progress and trends to be tracked, Healthy People 2010 provides a set of 10-year evidence-based health objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Its two overarching goals are to increase the quality and years of healthy life, and to eliminate health disparities. Healthy People 2010 serves as a model for state and international disease prevention and health promotion plans, and covers 28 focus areas with 467 specific objectives.
Midway through the decade, a Midcourse Review assesses the status of the national objectives. The Midcourse Review is the process through which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Federal agencies, and other experts assess the data trends during the first half of the decade, consider new science and available data, and make changes to ensure that Healthy People 2010 remains current, accurate, and relevant, while concurrently assessing emerging public health priorities.
The proposed changes to the Healthy People 2010 objectives take the form of: establishing baselines and targets for formerly developmental objectives; changing the language of objectives and subobjectives; deleting objectives and subobjectives; adding of new subobjectives; and revising baseline and targets.
For example, in the case of developmental objectives, "developmental" denotes those objectives and subobjectives that lack baseline data and targets. At the launch of Healthy People 2010, a number of objectives were designated as developmental: They provided a vision for the desired outcome or health status, but no national baseline data were available. As stated in Healthy People 2010, "Most developmental objectives have a potential data source with a reasonable expectation of data points by the year 2004 to facilitate setting 2010 targets in the mid-decade review. Developmental objectives with no baseline [or data source] at the midcourse will be dropped." As the Midcourse Review is developed, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the agencies that serve as the leads for the Healthy People 2010 initiative will consider ways to ensure the emerging public health issues retain prominence despite their current lack of data.
Many developmental objectives have secured a national data source or national baseline data. Therefore, they are now measurable. Developmental objectives with no national baseline data source are proposed for deletion as part of the Midcourse Review assessment. Those developmental objectives that remain developmental through the Midcourse Review assessment and are not being proposed for deletion have had a data source identified for them.
Public comment on the proposed changes is now closed.
- View the Federal Register notice soliciting public comment on the proposed changes to the Healthy People 2010 objectives through the Midcourse Review.
- View the proposed changes to the Healthy People 2010 objectives.
- View comments submitted during our comment submission period.
