Informing the Future Critical Issues in Health, Sixth Edition (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Measuring America's Health
Measuring America's Health
Pages 49-58
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Recent international comparisons show that dozens of less affluent nations boast higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality than the United States. Looking beyond such statistics, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation saw a more fundamental problem: the nation lacks a comprehensive system for gathering, analyzing, and communicating health information about the population.
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to lead development of one core set of standardized indicators focused on priority health outcomes. The numerous health indicator sets developed in recent years and deployed in different contexts make assess ment and comparison difficult for policy makers and other decision makers by highlighting similar information in different ways.
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In its third report, expected late in 2011, the committee will propose recommendations for funding state and local public health systems within the healthcare landscape expected to evolve as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is implemented. Working in concert with HHS, the IOM helped to develop and pro mote a new national Health Data Initiative (HDI)
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Reduce low birth weight (LBW) and very Infant Health healthy births low birth weight (VLBW)
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They also should be based on the latest scientific evidence and, to the extent possible, should have annual data sources, with comparable data available at the state and county level. Overall, the committee concludes that Healthy People 2020 is likely to prove valuable in eliciting interest and awareness among the general population, motivating diverse population groups to engage in activities that will improve their health, and providing feedback on progress toward improvements on specific health indicators.
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In its report, Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measur ing What Matters (2011) , the committee pointed to a lack of standardized data in The nation lacks robust key areas -- such as race and ethnicity, socionational- and state-level economic status, primary language spoken information about the health at home, and parental English proficiency -- status or healthcare quality and said these information gaps hinder of children and adolescents.
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The committee also endorsed the use of innovative measurement practices that can adapt to changing conditions, changing populations, and opportunities for health improvement. This will require efforts that track key child and adolescent populations over time to ensure that groups with the greatest risk for poor outcomes are included in data sources.
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In June 2011, a few months after the report's release, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced plans to begin collecting health data on LGBT populations in an effort to help researchers, policy makers, health providers, and advocates to identify and eliminate health disparities afflicting these communities. In addition, the report recommends that questions about sexual orientation and gender identity be standardized to allow for the compari son and combination of data across large studies.
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In its recommended research agenda for the NIH, the committee focuses on five priority areas: demographic research, social influences, healthcare inequities, intervention research, and transgender-specific health needs. The NIH also should support methodological research aimed at developing innovative ways to conduct research with small populations -- to reduce the costs of such research -- and determining the best ways to collect information on sexual and gender minorities in research, health care, and other settings.
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