College Health Objectives Submitted for Healthy People 2010

Send your comments for adding, changing or revising objectives; sources of data; baseline data; or targets to the Task Force at collhlth2010@csupomona.edu. Although the comments had to be in by December 15, 1998, there are opportunities to help DHHS fine tune the next draft.

Improve Systems for Personal and Public Health

Chapter 10. Access to Quality Health Services

Objective 10-A.1 - Uninsured children and adults
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) - 12
· ACHA - 10
· Other -
Baseline - Proxy data 29% of Cal Poly Pomona students
Target: 00.0%
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

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Chapter 11. Family Planning

Objective 11-3 - Contraceptive use, females
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) - 67
· ACHA - 37
· Other -
Baseline - %
Target: 95%
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 11-10 - Pregnancy and STD prevention methods
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) - 67
· ACHA - 37
· Other -
Baseline - 29.6%
Target: increase 10%

Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

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Chapter 12. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health

Objective - ? None related ?
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other -
Baseline -%
Target: %
Recommendation:

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Chapter 13. Medical Product Safety

Objective - ? None related ?
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other -
Baseline -%
Target: %
Recommendation:

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Chapter 14. Public Health Infrastructure

These are all "Developmental" objectives that ACHA can have input on through 2003 or 2004.

Objective 14-1 - Competencies for public health workers

Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA Health Promotion in Higher Education Task Force (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 14-6 - Access to public health information and surveillance data
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA HP in Higher Education Task Force, Benchmarking Committee and DataShare (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 14-7 - Tracking Healthy People 2010 objectives for select populations
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include college students as a select population.

Objective 14-8 - Data collection for Healthy People 2010 objectives
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 14-10 - Performance standards for essential public health services
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA HP in Higher Education Task Force, Benchmarking Committee and DataShare (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population. Colleges are local health services for a community of students.

Objective 14-11 - Health improvement plans
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA HP in Higher Education Task Force, Benchmarking Committee and DataShare (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 14-13 - Access to comprehensive epidemiology services
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA HP in Higher Education Task Force, Benchmarking Committee and DataShare
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Objective 14-14 - Model statutes related to essential public health services
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA HP in Higher Education Task Force, Benchmarking Committee and DataShare (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population. Seems related to accreditation of health services/centers in higher education settings.

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Chapter 15. Health Communication

Note: These are "Developmental" objectives that ACHA can have input on through 2003 or 2004.

Objective 15-3 - Evaluation of communication programs
Data Source
· 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) -
· ACHA -
· Other - ACHA Health Promotion in Higher Education Task Force (410) 859-1500 or http://www.acha.org
Baseline - %
Target: %
Recommendation: re-write to include students in higher education as a select population.

Send your comments for adding, changing or revising objectives; sources of data; baseline data; or targets to the Task Force at collhlth2010@csupomona.edu. Although the comments had to be in by December 15, 1998, there are opportunities to help DHHS fine tune the next draft.

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December 15, 1998 by Jim Grizzell, jvgrizzell@csupomona.edu