Skip directly to search Skip directly to A to Z list Skip directly to navigation Skip directly to page options Skip directly to site content

Leading Health Indicators and Objectives

Leading Health Indicators

Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas, nearly 600 objectives, which encompass 1,200 measures.

A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators(LHIs), has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.

Tobacco LHIs

The Tobacco Use Leading Health Indicators are:

  • Adults who are current cigarette smokers
  • Adolescents who smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days
  • Children aged 3 to 11 years exposed to secondhand smoke

More information…

Tobacco Use Objectives

Tobacco Use

  • TU–1: Adult tobacco use
  • TU–2: Adolescent tobacco use
  • TU–3: Initiation of tobacco use
  • TU–4: Smoking cessation attempts by adults
  • TU–5: Adult success in smoking cessation
  • TU–6: Smoking cessation during pregnancy
  • TU–7: Smoking cessation attempts by adolescents

Health Systems Changes

  • TU–8: Medicaid coverage for smoking cessation
  • TU–9: Tobacco screening in health care settings
  • TU–10: Tobacco cessation counseling in health care settings

Social and Environmental Changes

  • TU–11: Exposure to secondhand smoke
  • TU–12: Indoor worksite smoking policies
  • TU–13: Smoke-free indoor air laws
  • TU–14: Smoke-free homes
  • TU–15: Tobacco-free schools
  • TU–16: Preemptive tobacco control laws
  • TU–17: Tobacco tax
  • TU–18: Exposure of adolescents and young adults to advertising and promotion
  • TU–19: Enforcement of illegal sales to minors laws
  • TU–20: Evidence-based tobacco control programs
  • TU–21: Tax stamps

To obtain the full objective text visit the Healthy People 2020 website.

 


Multimedia

Top