Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #99674

Zakia Coriaty Nelson, MPH, Health Promotion Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, 301.458.4756, znelson@cdc.gov

Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive, national health promotion and disease prevention agenda which has established objectives for improving the health of the U.S. public during the first decade of the 21st century. The initiative has 467 objectives and hundreds of sub-objectives, most of which have associated targets by which progress can be assessed. The Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review is being conducted in the middle of the decade to evaluate and report progress towards measurable objectives and their targets. The Progress Quotient, a measure used to compute the percent of the target achieved for objectives with two or more data points, will be calculated and displayed in charts for all focus areas. Developed for the Midcourse review, confidence intervals for Progress Quotients will be used to evaluate the statistical significance of changes from the baseline data to the most recent data point. In addition to these calculations, this presentation will describe target-setting methods using examples from newly measurable objectives and objectives that require target adjustment due to revision of baseline data. The use of Kendall-Tau correlation to assess trends in estimates of objectives with three or more data points will also be discussed. Using these and other methodologies, the Midcourse review identifies areas in which significant progress has been made toward target achievement, as well as areas in which challenges have hindered meeting targets. This offers public health professionals and policymakers an opportunity to develop new strategies for moving the nation closer to its health goals for the decade.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant in this session will be able to do the following

• Identify several measures used to evaluate progress towards Healthy People 2010 objective targets at the mid-course.
• Recognize and extract important information from graphics used to summarize target achievement.
• Visualize these concepts through several specific examples of target achievement using current Healthy People 2010 objectives.

Keywords: Statistics, Healthy People 2000/2010

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.