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Health and Health Care Determinants

Healthy People 2020 has identified three Health and Health Care Determinants.

  • Access to Health Care
  • Access to Primary Care
  • Health Literacy

Health and Health Care Objectives

Several Health and Health Care Objectives have been identified, including:

AHS-1.1: Increase the proportion of persons with medical insurance

  • AHS-3: Increase the proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider
  • AHS-5.1: Increase the proportion of persons of all ages who have a specific source of ongoing care
  • AHS-6.1: Reduce the proportion of persons who are unable to obtain or delay in obtaining necessary medical care, dental care, or prescription medicines

Health and Health Care Data Sets

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a rich source of data sets that support the Healthy People 2020 measures. The following example illustrates one of these measures–Physicians per 100,000 residents, by county.