Data requirements to measure progress on the objectives for the nation in health promotion and disease prevention

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11026314
AutoresL W Green, R W Wilson (0009-0008-0795-7717), Karen Bauer, K G BAUER
Ano1983
Volume73
Fascículo1
Páginas18-24
Data de publicação1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.73.1.18
PMID6293322
OpenAlexW1993927815
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas6

The Reagan Administration has adopted the policy guidelines developed over the previous few years in the disease prevention and health promotion initiative of the Carter Administration. Broad national consensus had been sought in the formulation of 226 measurable objectives for the decade. We classify the prevention objectives according to their position in an implied causal chain: 1) improved programs, 2) increased public and professional awareness, 3) reduced risk factors, and 4) improved health status. Prior to 1980, the data systems and periodic surveys sponsored by federal agencies and national organizations covered only four of the 42 objectives in the public and professional awareness category, whereas at least half of the objectives in each of the other three categories were covered by available national data sources, mostly federal. Sample surveys are needed to measure the majority of the currently unmeasured objectives in all four categories. Private and state health interview surveys are needed to supplement the federal capacity, especially in the face of federal cutbacks in survey capacity

Administration (probate law) · Causal chain · Environmental health · Health promotion · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Public health · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education