Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: A Framework for 2020 Health Objectives
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is sponsoring a study to look at options for creating national disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the year 2020. ODPHP has secured the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct the study. The main tasks of the study are to:
- identify basic principles to guide the development of objectives;
- identify selection criteria to ensure the objectives are scientifically sound and significant to public health; and
- develop a way to prioritize the objectives.
NORC has convened a technical expert panel to think through these issues and make recommendations. The panel, whose members have varied expertise in public health infrastructure, objective-setting, health disparities, health communication, biostatistics, public health policy, and other areas, has helped develop a “Draft Model for Developing 2020 Health Objectives,” describing a strategy OPHS/ODPHP could use to prepare national objectives for the coming decade.
We encourage you to visit the NORC website, which offers you a chance to comment on the Draft Model for Developing 2020 Objectives. Comments are due by Dec 22, 2006. http://2020comment.norc.org
