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Developing Healthy People 2010
The Secretary's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Objectives for 2010 held its inaugural meeting April 21, 1997.
Established by charter on September 5, 1996, the Council will oversee
the development of Healthy People 2010, the Nation's prevention agenda
of goals and objectives for the first decade of the 21st century. This
initiative builds on the success of Healthy People 2000 which, by 1997,
already had met 13 percent of its targets and was showing movement in
the direction of the objectives in 43 percent of the others.
Jo Ivey Boufford, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, chaired the
meeting, and Secretary Donna Shalala participated.
The Council reviewed the lessons learned from the Healthy People
initiative to apply to 2010. It also heard a report on the discussions
of several focus groups. Focus group members were drawn from the Healthy
People 2000 Consortium, an organization of State and territorial public
health, mental health, substance abuse, and environmental agencies, as
well as national membership organizations.
Several themes emerged from the focus group discussions-the need to
address morbidity, as well as mortality, in setting objectives; the
value of packaging the 2010 information in different formats for
multiple audiences; the necessity of linking objectives to
community-based health improvement initiatives and accountability; and
the importance of using language that the public understands.
Proposed Framework
The Council reviewed the proposed framework for 2010: Two overarching
goals-Increase years of healthy life and Eliminate health
disparities-are proposed. These would be supported by four enabling
goals-promote healthy behaviors, protect health, achieve access to
quality health care, and strengthen community prevention. Objectives
would be grouped into 25 focus areas, which would be a reordering of the
year 2000 priority areas plus new areas.
The Council also discussed data issues to support this framework. A
new strategy needs to be developed to improve data collection,
particularly at the community level. Steps to improve information for
consumers and for measuring access to and quality of health services
need to be identified. Also, efforts to link performance measurement
activities under the Government Performance and Results Act with the
2010 goals and objectives need to be clarified.
Work groups already have begun to develop objectives. A call for
public comment on the proposed framework and submission of objectives
will be published in the Federal Register this fall and announced in
Developing Objectives for Healthy People 2010 which will be available in
August on the Internet at http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000.
The development process will culminate in release of the Healthy People
2010 document in the year 2000.
The Secretary's Council on Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010
Participants At The Inaugural Meeting April 21, 1997
Chair
Donna E. Shalala, Ph.D., Secretary
Kevin Thurm, J.D., Deputy Secretary
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., M.P.H., Acting Assistant Secretary
for Health
Former Assistant Secretaries for Health
Merlin K. DuVal, M.D.
Philip R. Lee, M.D.
Julius B. Richmond, M.D.
Robert E. Windom, M.D.
HHS Operating Division Heads
Olivia Golden, Ph.D. (Acting), Administration for Children
and Families
William F. Benson (Acting), Administration on Aging
John Eisenberg, M.D., Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
David Satcher, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael Friedman, M.D. (Acting), Food and Drug Administration
Sally Richardson, Health Care Financing Administration
(Representing Bruce Vladeck, M.D.)
Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H. (Acting), Health Resources and
Services Administration
Craig Vanderwagen, M.D., Indian Health Service (Representing
Michael Trujillo, M.D.)
William Harlan, M.D., National Institutes of Health
(Representing Harold Varmus, M.D.)
Paul Schwab, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (Representing Nelba Chavez, Ph.D.)
Members Not in Attendance
Edward N. Brandt, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Former Assistant
Secretary for Health
Charles C. Edwards, M.D., Former Assistant Secretary for Health
James O. Mason, M.D., Dr.P.H., Former Assistant Secretary for
Health
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