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Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) provides a "framework for prevention" that identifies a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the 21st century to reduce the "most significant preventable threats to health."
Report
Midcourse Review Report
Data Sets
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Published by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), this includes recommendations on screening, counseling, and preventive medication topics, as well as clinical considerations for each topic.Priorities for America's Health
, this lists cost-effective clinical preventive services recommended by the USPSTF and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The recommendations include primary and secondary preventive services offered by healthcare providers in clinical settings, including immunizations, screening tests, counseling and preventive medications.
Developed and maintained by the non-federal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, this summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, efficiency and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease.
National Healthcare Quality Report & National Healthcare Disparities Report
Published annually by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), these together provide a comprehensive overview of the quality of healthcare in the U.S.
National Healthcare Disparities Report 2008 [PDF | 2.6MB]
Hospital Quality Measures
Initiated by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the goal is to "empower consumers with quality of care information to make more informed decisions about their health care" and "encourage providers and clinicians to improve the quality of health care."
AHRQ's Quality Measures Inventory
A number of the measures in the documents selected by OMH are also included in an inventory of evidence-based health care quality measures recently compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The measures in this inventory are those currently being used by the Divisions in HHS for quality measurement, improvement, and reporting purposes. These measures can be searched by HHS Division, topic or condition, domain, or care setting.State Scorecards on Health System Performance
, these scorecards enable ranking of each of the States in five dimensions-healthy lives, quality, access, efficiency, and equity-of health system performance.
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