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Leading Health Indicators Profile Report Index

  • The Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) initiative was a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the state to achieve during the 2010-2020 decade.
  • The Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) were a small set of HNJ2020 objectives selected as high-priority health issues and were considered to be a reflection of the state's major public health concerns at the beginning of the decade: Access to Health Care, Birth Outcomes, Immunization, and Chronic Disease Prevention.
  • At the beginning of the decade, a target value to be achieved by 2020 was established for each HNJ2020 objective.


Leading Health Indicators Reports


  1. Access to care: Target not achieved

  2. Birth outcomes: Target achieved

  3. Immunization: Target not achieved

  4. Heart disease: Target achieved

  5. Obesity: Targets not achieved

Final Status of LHI Objectives


Click here to see the final status of all HNJ2020 objectives


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