The Healthy People 2010 Objectives were developed as part of a community wide activity led by the Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department. This is a 10 year health prevention effort that assessed health status in Lancaster County covering 21 areas of public health. The plan is separated into three major subject areas -- Healthy People, Healthy Environment and Healthy Behavior.

Through an intensive information gathering process, recommendations to improve health status were formulated with indicators used to benchmark and measure progress in each area. Indicators represent any number of statistics that measure change in the health status of a given population. This includes statistics such as average age of death, infant mortality or the incidence of a chronic disease. Goals for improvement are based on making favorable changes in these indicators over time.

The plan includes more than 200 recommendations for implementation over the ten years from 2000-2010. CHPF intends to develop resources for those areas where the most help is needed. In order to define these areas, the Foundation developed a community input process. A report summarizing the results of this activity can be found on the Initiatives Report page.

A complete copy of the Healthy People 2010 plan is available on line through the Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department Web site www.ci.lincoln.ne.us/city/health/.