Ooh, Here's One for the Pages!

This is so going on my vital and health statistics subject page. When it's got some information on it, I mean.

The State of the USA will track 20 key indicators of national health, broken into three categories. Just look at the fine data we will one day have available for ready perusal:

Health Outcomes

• Life Expectancy at Birth
  
• Infant Mortality
  
• Life Expectancy at Age 65
  
• Injury–Related Mortality
  
• Self-Reported Health Status
  
• Unhealthy Days, Physical and Mental 
  
• Chronic Disease Prevalence
  
• Serious Psychological Distress
  

Health-Related Behaviors

• Smoking
  
• Physical Activity
  
• Excessive Drinking
  
• Nutrition
  
• Obesity
  
• Condom Use
  

Health Systems

• Health Care Expenditures
  
• Insurance Coverage
  
• Unmet Medical, Dental, and Prescription Drug Needs
  
• Preventive Services
  
• Preventable Hospitalizations
  
• Childhood Immunization
  

These 20 indicators were chosen based on the advice of the Institute of Medicine, another organization for which I feel great fondness.

This is gonna be sweet.

Health Populi alerted me to the coming sweetness, thus earning my eternal gratitude.