Leading Health Indicators 2030 : Advancing Health, Equity, and Well-Being

Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has overseen the Healthy People initiative to set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. At the request of HHS, this study presents a slate of Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) that will serve as options for the Healthy People Federal Interagency Workgroup to consider as they develop the final criteria and set of LHIs for Healthy People 2030. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 The Process for Identifying Candidate Leading Health Indicators3 Details of the Top-Down Procedure4 Results of the Bottom-Up Procedure: Gaps in the Draft Objectives5 ConclusionReferencesAppendix A: Committee Member BiosketchesAppendix B: Public Information-Gathering Meeting AgendasAppendix C: Two Social Determinants of Health FrameworksAppendix D: Leading Health Indicator Contender FormAppendix E: Department of Health and Human Services Proposed Objectives for Inclusion in Healthy People 2030