PMID- 27413680
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160714
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2211-3355 (Print)
IS  - 2211-3355 (Electronic)
IS  - 2211-3355 (Linking)
VI  - 4
DP  - 2016 Dec
TI  - Healthy Volunteer 2020: Comparing Peace Corps Volunteers' health metrics with 
      Healthy People 2020 national objectives.
PG  - 179-83
LID - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.05.016 [doi]
AB  - Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) provides a set of quantifiable objectives for 
      improving the health and well-being of Americans. This study examines Peace Corps 
      Volunteers' health metrics in comparison with the Leading Health Indicators 
      (LHIs) in order to set baseline measures for Volunteers' health care and align 
      our measurements with Healthy People 2020 standards. Health data from multiple 
      internal Peace Corps datasets were compared with relevant LHIs and analyzed using 
      descriptive statistics. Seventeen (65%) of the 26 LHIs were relevant to Peace 
      Corps Volunteers. Of these, Volunteers' health measures met or were more 
      favorable than the goals of 13 (76%) of the LHIs. There were no data available 
      for 4 (24%) of the LHIs. The entire Volunteer population has full access to 
      primary care, oral health, and reproductive health services. No suicides or 
      homicides were reported among Volunteers during the analyzed time period. 
      Utilizing the LHIs, we have identified high-priority public health issues 
      relevant for the Peace Corps Volunteer population. We discuss the need for 
      quality data to measure and monitor Volunteers' health progress and outcomes over 
      time, and also to standardize our measurements with Healthy People 2020 
      benchmarks. This framework may foster greater collaboration to engage in health 
      promotion and disease prevention activities driven by evidence-based information, 
      which may, in turn, encourage healthy behavior among Volunteers.
FAU - Henderson, Susan J
AU  - Henderson SJ
AD  - Peace Corps Office of Health Services, United States.
FAU - Newman, Jeannette
AU  - Newman J
AD  - Peace Corps Office of Health Services, United States.
FAU - Ferguson, Rennie W
AU  - Ferguson RW
AD  - Peace Corps Office of Health Services, United States.
FAU - Jung, Paul
AU  - Jung P
AD  - Peace Corps Office of Health Services, United States.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160524
PL  - United States
TA  - Prev Med Rep
JT  - Preventive medicine reports
JID - 101643766
PMC - PMC4929143
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Health indicators
OT  - Health metrics
OT  - Healthy People 2020
OT  - US Peace Corps
EDAT- 2016/07/15 06:00
MHDA- 2016/07/15 06:01
PMCR- 2016/05/24
CRDT- 2016/07/15 06:00
PHST- 2016/01/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/05/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/05/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/07/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/07/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/07/15 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/05/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2211-3355(16)30046-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.05.016 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Prev Med Rep. 2016 May 24;4:179-83. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.05.016. eCollection 
      2016 Dec.