What are the health indicators?

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

1. Access to Health Services:
– Persons with medical insurance.
– Persons with a usual primary care provider.

2. Clinical Preventive Services:
– Adults receiving colorectal cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines.
– Adults with hypertension whose blood pressure is under control.
– Persons with diagnosed diabetes whose A1c value is greater than 9%.
– Children receiving the recommended doses of DTaP, polio, MMR, Hib, HepB, varicella, and PCV vaccines by age 19–35 months.

3. Environmental Quality:
– Air Quality Index >100.
-Children exposed to secondhand smoke.

4. Injury and Violence:
– Injury deaths.
– Homicides.

5. Maternal Infant and Child Health:
– All Infant deaths.
– Total preterm live births.

6. Mental Health:
– Suicide.
– Adolescents with a major depressive episode in the past 12 months.

7. Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity:
– Adults meeting aerobic physical activity and muscle-strengthening objectives.
– Obesity among adults.
– Obesity among children and adolescents.
– Mean daily intake of total vegetables.

8. Oral Health:
– Children, adolescents, and adults who visited the dentist in the past year.

9. Reproductive and Sexual Health:
– Sexually active females receiving reproductive health services.
– Knowledge of serostatus among HIV-positive persons.

10. Social Determinants:
– Students graduating from high school 4 years after starting 9th grade.

11. Substance Abuse:
– Adolescents using alcohol or illicit drugs in the past 30 days.
– Binge drinking in the past month—Adults.

12. Tobacco:
– Adult cigarette smoking.
– Adolescent cigarette smoking in the past 30 days.