Report

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convene a committee of experts to participate in a three-phase project to develop a set of leading health indicators to complement and expand the Healthy People 2010 program.

The first phase of the project is described in this first interim report, which represents the IOM committee's commentary on the audience, functions, criteria, and developmental challenges for the leading health indicators and indicator sets defined in the DHHS publication Leading Indicators for Healthy People 2010: A Report from the HHS Working Group on Sentinel Objectives (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997b).