Utah's Healthy People 2000 : Health Status Indicators /

Assessing the health status of the population is a fundamental responsibility of public health. Such an assessment is an important guide for public health policy development and for evaluating existing public health programs. The 18 Health Status Indicators for the Year 2000 were developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process under the leadership of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention with input from public health professionals in state and local health departments, health professional organizations, and the academic community. This report presents an update on the Health Status Indicators for the Year 2000 for the State of Utah. For each indicator, the trend for Utah is presented to allow an assessment of Utah's progress in improving health status as measured by that indicator. In addition, data are presented for the United States overall and for the state that has the best rate for that indicator.