Discussion: NSG 486 Leading Health Indicators

Discussion: NSG 486 Leading Health Indicators

NSG486 Public Health Promotion And Disease PreventionWeek 1 Discussion
Leading Health Indicators

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Explore HealthyPeople.gov to familiarize yourself with an initiative aimed at promoting health through attaining four overarching goals.

After navigating the site, respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

How are the leading health indicators selected?

Which of the leading health indicator topic(s) is/are most important for your community or practice setting? Why?

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Healthy People 2020 provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas with more than 1,200 objectives. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), have been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.

Great strides have been made during the past decade: life expectancy at birth increased; rates of death from coronary heart disease and stroke decreased. Nonetheless, public health challenges remain, and significant health disparities persist.

Track Progress Toward LHIs!

Check out our interactive infographic to see the Nation’s progress toward each Leading Health Indicator.

The Healthy People 2020 LHIs place renewed emphasis on overcoming these challenges as we track progress over the course of the decade. The indicators will be used to assess the health of the Nation, facilitate collaboration across sectors, and motivate action at the national, state, and community levels to improve the health of the U.S. population.

Leading Health Indicators
The Leading Health Indicators are a select subset of 26 Healthy People 2020 objectives across 12 topics:

Access to Health ServicesExternal

Persons with medical insurance (AHS-1.1)
Persons with a usual primary care provider (AHS-3)
Clinical Preventive ServicesExternal

Adults receiving colorectal cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines (C-16)
Adults with hypertension whose blood pressure is under control (HDS-12)
Persons with diagnosed diabetes whose A1c value is greater than 9% (D-5.1)
Children receiving the recommended doses of DTaP, polio, MMR, Hib, HepB, varicella and PCV vaccines by age 19–35 months (IID-8)
Environmental QualityExternal

Air Quality Index >100 (EH-1)
Children exposed to secondhand smoke (TU-11.1)
Injury and Violence

Injury deaths (IVP-1.1)
Homicides (IVP-29)
Maternal Infant and Child HealthExternal

All Infant deaths (MICH-1.3)
Total preterm live births (MICH-9.1)
Mental HealthExternal

Suicide (MHMD-1)
Adolescents with a major depressive episode in the past 12 months (MHMD-4.1)