Building the Foundation: Leadership and Structure

Healthy Delaware 2010 Planning Structure (Delaware)
Graphic overview of the Healthy Delaware 2010 steering committee structure and relationship to staff and work groups.

Healthy Virginians 2010 Advisory Team (Virginia)
Overview of Virginia's internal working group that includes key staff from the central office and three district health directors, who have been charged with developing initial recommendations regarding which focus areas and objectives from the national Healthy People 2010 document should be targeted in the Commonwealth's plan.

Healthy Delaware 2010 Vision and Goals (Delaware)
The Healthy Delaware 2010 Steering Committee’s vision and goals for the 2010 initiative.

Roles and Responsibilities (Delaware)
Describes the roles and responsibilities of the steering committee, subcommittees, work groups, and staff.

Healthy North Carolinians Certification Process (North Carolina)
Outline of the steps that will lead community groups through the planning process to certification for Healthy Carolinians.

Legislation to Establish Healthy People 2010 Planning Council (Louisiana)
1999 legislation to establish the Louisiana Healthy People 2010 Planning Council.  Establishes the Council’s charge, powers, membership, and reporting responsibilities, as well as the relationship of Healthy People 2010 to the Governor’s priorities and other state initiatives.

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Identifying and Securing Resources

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Identifying and Engaging Community Partners

Healthy West Virginia Coalition (West Virginia)
Home Page for the HWVC, which aims to link groups and organizations together and increase their capacity to encourage healthy lifestyles for West Virginians through education and prevention.

Stakeholder Interview Purposes (Delaware)
Lists purposes of a series of individual and group stakeholder interviews conducted in Delaware before beginning work on the state’s 2010 plan.

Stakeholder Interview Guide (Delaware)
Stakeholder interview guide developed by the Public Health Foundation (PHF) to learn how Healthy Delaware 2010 could engage, appeal to, and be useful to private and public sector audiences.  One-hour individual interviews and two-hour focus groups were conducted using the guide and analyzed by PHF.

Stakeholder Interview Prompt Sheet (Delaware)
Prompt sheets used in both individual interviews and focus groups with questions 1, 3, and 4 of the interview guide.  Useful to jog participants’ memories about issues that may be important but difficult to remember or think of without help.  Sheet #4 lists ways to assist with the state health plan and could be adapted for state use as a "pledge sheet" or summary of "things you can do."

Chamber of Commerce Survey (Delaware)
Survey to collect input from businesses unable to participate in face-to-face stakeholder interviews.  Derived from the Healthy Delaware 2010 stakeholder interview guide.

Healthy Delaware 2010 Market Research Findings (Presentation) (Delaware)
Presentation of preliminary findings of Healthy Delaware 2010 "market research" activities: stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and marketing audits.  Used to inform the state’s development plan, publication plan, and marketing plan.  (Listed also under "Communicating Health Goals")

Roles for Key Actors (Iowa)
Describes the roles of the Healthy Iowans 2010 Consortium, work groups, chapter teams, review teams, editors, and resource persons.  Reviews how parties such as the Governor, Iowa Legislature, citizens, state agencies, and boards of health were involved in the Healthy Iowans 2010 planning process.

State Health Issues Opinion Survey: Healthy New Jersey 2010 (New Jersey)
Report summarizes findings of a telephone survey conducted in 1999 by The Center for Public Interest Polling, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  The Telephone Survey Instrument may help other states to identify opinions about the most important health issues and roles of different entities in addressing health issues.

Promotional Brochure (Delaware)
Color brochure introduces the state’s Healthy People initiative to potential partners.  Describes the planning process and ways to get involved. Includes a response card.

Partnership Opportunities (Delaware)
Checklist of specific opportunities to become involved in the Healthy Delaware 2010 initiative, such as donation of resources and services, participation in committees, and policy advocacy.  Distributed to leaders invited to a small kick-off breakfast with the Governor.

"Healthy Delaware Heroes" Nomination Form (Delaware)
Form to solicit nominations of individuals, businesses, or organizations to feature in the Healthy Delaware 2010 plan.  In future, the state plans to give annual "Healthy Delaware Heroes" awards to recognize prevention efforts.

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Setting Health Priorities and Establishing Objectives

Process Guidance (Maryland)
Packet of materials to guide the development of Maryland’s Health Improvement plan.  Contains answers to frequently asked questions, a list of Maryland priority issues, a sample format for each module (state and local), staff resources, and other guidance for state agency staff and local health departments.  Not available on this site are Attachment 9, a data guidance drawn in part from the Healthy People 2010 Toolkit, and Attachment 10, criteria for objectives development, drawn from the Healthy People 2010 Objectives: Draft for Public Comment.

Framework and Priority Setting Options for Healthy Delaware 2010 (Handout) (Delaware)
Explains the importance of choosing a framework and priority setting method for the state plan.  Presents six distinct options drawn from Healthy Delaware steering committee suggestions and other states’ models.

Framework and Priority Setting Options (Presentation) (Delaware)
Presentation slides summarizing six framework and priority setting options for Healthy Delaware 2010.  Used to help the steering committee decide how to organize and begin to develop the state plan.

Using Health Indicators to Identify Priorities (Handouts) (Delaware)
Materials summarizing five health indicator sets and criteria for choosing indicators.  Suggests ways health indicators might be used to organize Healthy Delaware 2010, based on steering committee interest in exploring health indicators as a framework for the plan.

Framework and Priority Setting Survey (Delaware)
Survey used to gather input from Healthy Delaware 2010 steering committee members on the organization of the plan, preferred health indicator sets, work group organization, target audiences, and community input.  Used by a subcommittee to prepare recommendations on the process to develop the plan.

Getting Your Team Started (Iowa)
Guides teams in the process of developing chapters.  Outlines items to cover at the first team meeting, record keeping responsibilities, time lines, budget issues, ground rules, and other issues.

Ground Rules (Iowa)
Handout with ground rules suggested for chapter teams.   Included with the ground rules are "Guidelines for Productive Team Meetings," which includes explanations of some rules.

Team - Definition (Iowa)
Team definition handout used with chapter teams.

Note Taking Form (Iowa)
Tool to help chapter teams record important information.

Meeting Evaluation Form (Iowa)
Tool used to evaluate team meetings.

Survival Kit for Facilitators (Iowa)
A list and explanation of symbolic items given to Healthy Iowans 2010 facilitators.  A facilitator’s "care package" with humor and wisdom.

Work Group Facilitator Guides (Delaware)
Detailed agendas and facilitator guides for two phases of the state's work group process.  Phase 1—teams from five sectors (business, government, education, etc.) formed audience work groups to identify health improvement measures and strategies important to them.  Phase 2—representatives from each sector team formed "mixed groups" to agree on shared responsibilities and objectives.

Chapter Review Checklist (Iowa)
Checklist to help reviewers evaluate draft Healthy Iowans 2010 chapters.  Used by members of the 23 chapter review team to ensure chapters followed a consistent format.  May also be useful to states developing a list of standard information to be included with all priority areas and objectives.

Special Populations Chapter Review Checklist (Iowa)
Checklist to help population representatives review "Special Populations" chapters of Healthy Iowans 2010 addressing health disparities.

Chapter Presentation Guidelines (Iowa)
Prepares chapter authors ("chapter team members") to make oral presentations about their chapters to reviewers.  Outlines 10 specific points for presenters to address, such as health disparities, similarity to year 2000 objectives, and plans for data collection.

Guide to Chapter Team Discussion (Iowa)
Outlines necessary components of each chapter and provides chapter teams with discussion questions to consider for each area.

Worksheet for Chapter Teams (Iowa)
Grid designed to help chapter teams identify specific channels (e.g., work places, health care systems) for reaching population groups (e.g., adolescents, populations experiencing disparities).

Expert Team Checklists (Delaware)
Checklists to assist expert teams in finalizing Healthy Delaware 2010 text.

Content Revisions/Additions Form (Delaware)
Used to help organize changes made by expert teams assigned to refine each draft focus area.

Sample State Focus Areas         

Healthy Delaware 2010 [13 focus areas] (Delaware)

Healthy Iowans 2010 [23 focus areas] (Iowa)

See also the Healthy Iowans 2010/Healthy People 2010 Chapter Comparison

Maryland Health Improvement Plan [17 priority issues] (Maryland)

Healthy Minnesotans Public Health Improvement Goals 2004 [18 goals] (Minnesota)

Strategies for Public Health: Healthy Minnesotans (Minnesota)
Strategies for Public Health presents health improvement strategies for government, health plans, hospitals and clinics, educational systems, community based organizations, businesses, and other groups.  The concise format and content may be useful to other states and communities preparing strategy recommendations or background materials for planners.  Strategy grids may be downloaded for 12 subjects.

Healthy New Hampshire 2010  [11 focus areas] (New Hampshire)

West Virginia Healthy People 2010 [26 prevention focus areas] (West Virginia)

Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 [11 health and 5 infrastructure priorities] (Wisconsin)

Guidance for State Background Materials (Delaware)
Two-page template used to guide subject matter experts (SMEs) assigned to create state-specific background materials for work group participants.  Before meeting, participants received state background materials plus one page of "best practices" for each focus area.

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Obtaining Baseline Measures, Setting Targets, and Measuring Progress

Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS) (Georgia)
Interactive website contains vital statistics (births, deaths, infant deaths), Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry, and population data.  Users can select measures to either view in a table or download into a spreadsheet.  Another tool generates maps reflecting how each county is doing in terms of prenatal care, infant mortality rates, and other indicators.  Useful example of how to make health data accessible to the public.

Community Choices 2010 (Washington)
Report that is put out every three years by Community Choices 2010, a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is to improve health in Clark County, Washington.  This 2003 report card shows progress towards local health goals and comparisons to Healthy People 2010 objectives.

Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators (California)
Report by the Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services that uses the January 2004 Edition of the federal DATA2010 system to measure how California fares on 10 Leading Health Indicators and associated HP2010 objectives.

Annual Health Status Measures (Presentation) (Georgia)
PowerPoint presentation uses graphs to compare Georgia statistics on health indicators with national statistics and with the state’s 2010 goals.

Healthy Michigan 2010: A Health Status Report (Michigan)
Report provides an overview of Michigan’s health status and a baseline for Michigan’s health improvement.

Target Setting Algorithm and Worksheet (Delaware)
Tools to assist focus area teams in setting challenging and achievable targets.  Algorithm assists in choosing target setting methods (e.g., better than state best, better than U.S. best).

Setting Target Levels for Objectives (Public Health Foundation)
Used to help state 2010 workgroups understand various target setting methods.

Managing and Sustaining the Process

Healthy Virginians 2010-Draft Implementation Plan (Virginia)
A monthly workplan for those involved in implementing the Healthy Virginians 2010 Draft plans.

Healthy Iowans 2010 Work Plan & Time Line (Iowa)

West Virginia Healthy People 2010 Timeline (West Virginia)

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Communicating Health Goals and Objectives (Marketing)

The Michigan Surgeon General’s Prescription for a Healthier Michigan (Michigan)
Concise report that gives a snapshot of Michigan’s current health status and what the state needs to do to preserve and promote health.  Includes specific action items for schools, businesses, state and local health agencies, faith-based communities, and others.

Marketing Audit Script (Delaware)
Script for telephone surveys (marketing audits) conducted by The Nixon Group, a private marketing firm, to gather information needed to develop a marketing plan for Healthy Delaware 2010.  Used to learn perceptions of Healthy Delaware, how to effectively reach target audiences with Healthy Delaware 2010 campaigns, and opportunities to engage partners in marketing efforts.

Healthy Delaware 2010 Market Research Findings (Presentation) (Delaware)
Presentation of preliminary findings of Healthy Delaware 2010 "market research" activities: stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and marketing audits.  Used to inform the state’s development plan, publication plan, and marketing plan.  (Listed also under "Identifying and Engaging Partners")

Healthy Delaware Marketing Objectives (Delaware)
Outlines general and audience-specific marketing objectives, detailing what various groups should do or believe about Healthy Delaware 2010.

Sample News Releases

New Jersey Sets Health Goals for the Year 2010 (New Jersey)

Q & A: Healthy Minnesotans Public Health Improvement Goals 2004 (Minnesota)

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We welcome your questions and comments about the state Healthy People 2010 tools on this site.  By request, we can e-mail you most tools in Word 97 format.  E-mail Jacalyn Carden or call 202.218.4415.

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