3082.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

Tracking Healthy People 2010: A Multi-Level Approach

The final edition of the Healthy People 2010 objectives was published in two volumes in November 2000, with a companion volume, "Tracking Healthy People 2010," containing useful information on data issues, data sources, and the complete operational definition for all HP2010 objectives. The presentations in the session will focus on several aspects related to the data used to the track the Healthy People 2010 objectives. These include general data issues involved in tracking the Healthy People 2010 objectives; overview of the Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators as well as the data and data issues related to the tracking of this set of indicators; the characteristics of a statistic to measure health disparity between subpopulations, their significance in shaping its utility, and the application of disparity measurement to state and local levels; the features and usage of DATA2010, a Web-based system hosted by CDC WONDER to house all the data from the 200 data sources being used to monitor the Healthy People 2010 initiative; development and implementation of tracking at the state level: the Iowa example.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant should be able to: 1. Describe the major statistical issues involved in tracking the Healthy People 2010 objectives. 2. Utilize DATA2010 to provide the most current information related to tracking Healthy People 2010 objectives. 3. Identify the statistical challenges in measuring the Leading Health Indicators. 4. Describe the characteristics of a disparity measure statistic and their significance in its utility. 5. Describe the Healthy Iowans 2010 tracking process.
Presider(s):Richard J Klein, MPH
Organizer(s):Richard J Klein, MPH
12:30 PMTracking Healthy People 2010: Major statistical issues
Kathleen M. Turczyn, MPH
12:45 PMTracking Healthy People 2010:The WONDER of using DATA2010
Suzanne E. Proctor, MPH, Thomas C. Socey, AA
1:00 PMLeading Health Indicators: The framework for a Healthy People report card
Manon A. Boudreault, MPH
1:15 PMMoving from disparity to parity; Measuring Healthy People 2010's 2nd goal
John Aberle-Grasse, MPH, Jeff Pearcy, Kenneth G Keppel, PhD
1:30 PMTracking Iowa's health agenda in the new decade
Louise Lex, PhD
1:45 PMPriority setting in Maryland: A quantitative approach
Jeanette Jenkins, MHS
2:00 PMDiscussion
Sponsor:Statistics
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Environment; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA