80 FR 62077 - Announcement of Solicitation of Written Comments on Modifications of Healthy People 2020 Objectives

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERIVCES

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 199 (October 15, 2015)

Page Range		62077-62078
FR Document		2015-26244

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services solicits written comments regarding new objectives proposed to be added to Healthy People 2020 since the fall 2014 public comment period, as well as written comments proposing new objectives to be included within existing Healthy People 2020 topic areas. Public participation helps shape Healthy People 2020, its framework, objectives, organization, and targets. Healthy People 2020 will provide opportunities for public input periodically throughout the decade to ensure that Healthy People 2020 reflects current public health priorities and public input. The updated set of Healthy People 2020 objectives will be incorporated on www.HealthyPeople.gov. This set will reflect further review and deliberation by the topic area workgroups, Federal Interagency Workgroup on Healthy People 2020, and other Healthy People 2020 stakeholders.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 199 (Thursday, October 15, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 199 (Thursday, October 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERIVCES


Announcement of Solicitation of Written Comments on Modifications 
of Healthy People 2020 Objectives

AGENCY: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the Secretary, Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services solicits 
written comments regarding new objectives proposed to be added to 
Healthy People 2020 since the fall 2014 public comment period, as well 
as written comments proposing new objectives to be included within 
existing Healthy People 2020 topic areas. Public participation helps 
shape Healthy People 2020, its framework, objectives, organization, and 
targets. Healthy People 2020 will provide opportunities for public 
input periodically throughout the decade to ensure that Healthy People 
2020 reflects current public health priorities and public input. The 
updated set of Healthy People 2020 objectives will be incorporated on 
www.HealthyPeople.gov. This set will reflect further review and 
deliberation by the topic area workgroups, Federal Interagency 
Workgroup on Healthy People 2020, and other Healthy People 2020 
stakeholders.

DATES: Written comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET on November 
16, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Written comments will be accepted via an online public 
comment database at http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/history-development/Public-Comment; by mail at the Office of Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
Attn: Public Comment, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Room LL-100, Rockville, MD 
20852; fax--(240) 453-8281; or email_HP2020@hhs.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caitie Blood, MPH, Office of Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Room LL-100, Rockville, MD 20852, 
Caitlin.Blood@HHS.gov (email), (240) 453-8265 (telephone), (240) 453-
8281 (fax).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For three decades, Healthy People has 
provided a comprehensive set of national 10-year health promotion and 
disease prevention objectives aimed at improving the health of all 
Americans. Healthy People 2020 objectives provide a framework by 
presenting a comprehensive picture of the nation's health at the 
beginning of the decade, establishing national goals and targets to be 
achieved by the year 2020, and monitoring progress over time. The U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting the submission of 
written comments regarding new objectives proposed to be added to 
Healthy People 2020 since the fall 2014 public comment period.

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    Healthy People 2020 is the product of an extensive collaborative 
process that relies on input from a diverse array of individuals and 
organizations, both within and outside the federal government, with a 
common interest in improving the nation's health. Public comments were 
a cornerstone of Healthy People 2020's development. During the first 
phase of planning for Healthy People 2020, HHS asked for the public's 
comments on the vision, mission, and implementation of Healthy People 
2020. Those comments helped set the framework for Healthy People 2020. 
The public was also invited to submit comments on proposed Healthy 
People 2020 objectives, which helped shape the final set of Healthy 
People 2020 objectives.
    The public is now invited to comment on new objectives proposed to 
be added to Healthy People 2020. These new objectives were developed by 
topic area workgroups led by various agencies within the federal 
government. They have been reviewed by the Federal Interagency 
Workgroup on Healthy People 2020 and are presented now for the public's 
review and comment. The public is also invited to suggest additional 
objectives for consideration that address critical public health issues 
within existing Healthy People 2020 topic areas. Any proposed new 
objective must meet all of the objective selection criteria (see 
below).
    Written comments will be accepted at http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/history-development/Public-Comment during a 30-day public 
comment period beginning in October 2015. The public will also be able 
to submit written comments via mail, fax, and email (see contact 
information above). Comments received in response to this notice will 
be reviewed and considered by the appropriate topic area workgroup, 
Federal Interagency Workgroup on Healthy People 2020, and other Healthy 
People 2020 stakeholders.

Objective Selection Criteria

    The following nine criteria should be taken into consideration when 
commenting on the proposed new objectives or suggesting additional 
objectives.
    1. The result to be achieved should be important and understandable 
to a broad audience and support the Healthy People 2020 goals.
    2. Objectives should be prevention oriented and should address 
health improvements that can be achieved through population-based and 
individual actions, and systems-based, environmental, health-service, 
or policy interventions.
    3. Objectives should drive actions that will work toward the 
achievement of the proposed targets (defined as quantitative values to 
be achieved by the year 2020).
    4. Objectives should be useful and reflect issues of national 
importance. Federal agencies, states, localities, non-governmental 
organizations, and the public and private sectors should be able to use 
objectives to target efforts in schools, communities, work sites, 
health practices, and other environments.
    5. Objectives should be measurable and should address a range of 
issues, such as: Behavior and health outcomes; availability of, access 
to, and content of behavioral and health service interventions; socio-
environmental conditions; and community capacity--directed toward 
improving health outcomes and quality of life across the life span. 
(Community capacity is defined as the ability of a community to plan, 
implement, and evaluate health strategies.)
    6. Continuity and comparability of measured phenomena from year to 
year are important, thus, when appropriate, retention of objectives 
from previous Healthy People iterations is encouraged. However, in 
instances where objectives and/or measures have proven ill-suited to 
the purpose or are inadequate, new improved objectives should be 
developed. Whether or not an objective has met its target in a previous 
Healthy People iteration should not be the sole basis for retaining or 
archiving an objective.
    7. The objectives should be supported by the best available 
scientific evidence. The objective selection and review processes 
should be flexible enough to allow revisions to objectives in order to 
reflect major updates or new knowledge.
    8. Objectives should address population disparities. These include 
populations categorized by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, 
gender, disability status, sexual orientation, and geographic location. 
For particular health issues, additional special populations should be 
addressed, based on an examination of the available evidence on 
vulnerability, health status, and disparate care.
    9. Healthy People 2020, like past versions, is heavily data driven. 
Valid, reliable, nationally representative data and data systems should 
be used for Healthy People 2020 objectives. Each objective must have 
(1) a data source, or potential data source, identified, (2) baseline 
data and (3) assurance of at least one additional data point throughout 
the decade.

    Dated: October 9, 2015.
Don Wright,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion.
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submit comments on proposed Healthy availability of, access to, and content of Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
People 2020 objectives, which helped behavioral and health service amended (5 U.S.C. App), notice is
shape the final set of Healthy People interventions; socio-environmental hereby given of the following meetings.
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to Healthy People 2020. These new life span. (Community capacity is 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C.,
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the public’s review and comment. The are important, thus, when appropriate,
retention of objectives from previous applications, the disclosure of which
public is also invited to suggest would constitute a clearly unwarranted
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Dates		Written comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET on November 16, 2015.
Contact		Caitie Blood, MPH, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Room LL-100, Rockville, MD 20852, [email protected] (email), (240) 453-8265 (telephone), (240) 453- 8281 (fax).
FR Citation		80 FR 62077