Newly Released: Healthy People 2020 Final Review Foundation Health Measures

Today, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Final Review Foundation Health Measures. This analysis is the next component in the HP2020 Final Review suite of products being released on a rolling basis. This new release focuses on global summary measures of population health that are used to monitor improvements in population health in the broadest sense. The HP2020 Final Review Foundation Health Measures are interactive and include a bar chart, line graph, and data table that can be filtered.

 

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