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.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• COMMITTEE ON INFORMING THE SELECTION OF LEADING HEALTH INDICATORS FOR HEALTHY PEOPLE 2030
• Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Summary
  • FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• 1. Introduction
  • THE COMMITTEE’S APPROACH
• 2. The Process for Identifying Candidate Leading Health Indicators
  • MEASUREMENT LITERATURE REVIEWED
  • CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO HEALTH EQUITY
  • CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF WELL-BEING
  • FIVE STEPS TO SELECT CANDIDATE LEADING HEALTH INDICATORS
• 3. Details of the Top-Down Procedure
  • THE RESULTS OF THE TOP-DOWN PROCEDURE
• 4. Results of the Bottom-Up Procedure: Gaps in the Draft Objectives
  • LHIs DRAWN FROM EXISTING (DRAFT) HP2030 CORE OBJECTIVES
  • LHIs REQUIRING NEW CORE OBJECTIVES
  • DISCUSSION OF LHI OBJECTIVES PARTLY FOUND AMONG THE HP2030 DRAFT CORE OBJECTIVES
  • CONSIDERATIONS FOR POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTAL OBJECTIVES
  • APPLYING PHASE 2 OF THE LHI SELECTION CRITERIA TO THE PROPOSED LHI SET
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Appendix A. Committee Member Biosketches
• Appendix B. Public Information-Gathering Meeting Agendas
• Appendix C. Two Social Determinants of Health Frameworks
• Appendix D. Leading Health Indicator Contender Form
• Appendix E. Department of Health and Human Services Proposed Objectives for Inclusion in Healthy People 2030

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Leading Health Indicators 2030: Advancing health, equity, and well-being. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25682.

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17226/25682

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