Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators

The Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) are a select subset of 26 Healthy People 2020 objectives chosen to communicate high-priority health issues.

Progress has been generally positive toward achieving these targets from 2010 to 2014. Fourteen of the 26 indicators (53.9%) have either met their target or shown improvement:

• 4 indicators (15.4%) have met or exceeded their Healthy People 2020 targets.

• 10 indicators (38.5%) are improving.

• 8 indicators (30.8%) show little or no detectable change.

• 3 indicators (11.5%) are getting worse.

• 1 indicator (3.8%) has only baseline data.