Objectives for Strategic Priorities
All Objectives are in Keeping With the National Healthy People Objectives 2010

Obesity, Diet and Exercise

• Increase to 85 percent the proportion of people aged 18 and older who engage in any leisure

• time physical activity. (Baseline: 77 percent in 1995)

• Increase the proportion of public and private elementary , middle and high schools that require and provide daily physical education for all students. (Baseline: 81 public schools offer physical education 2 days a week -1999)

• Reduce to less than 15 percent the prevalence of BMI (Body Mass Index) at or above 30.0 among people aged 20 and older. (Baseline: 18 percent in 1995)  
  

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Tobacco Use

• Reduce to 13 percent the proportion of adults (18 and older) who use tobacco products. (Baseline: 25 percent in 1995)

• Reduce the proportion of young people in grades 9 through 12 who have used tobacco products. (Baseline: 35 percent in 1998)

• Influence and enact changes in public perception and policy towards the reduction of the use of tobacco products at the state and local level.

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Risky Sexual Behavior

• Reduce to no more than 25 percent the proportion of individuals aged 15-17 who have ever had sexual intercourse. (Baseline: 58 percent in 1995)

• Reduce pregnancies among females aged 15-17 to no more than 45 per 1,000 adolescents. (Baseline: 49.8 per 1,000 in 1998)

• Reduce pregnancies among unwed females aged 18 to 24 to 25 percent or less. (Baseline: 33.5 percent in 1997)

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Alcohol and Drug Use

• Reduce to 14 percent the proportion of youth reporting use of alcoholic beverages during past 30 days. (Baseline: 41 percent in 1998)

• Reduce to 5 percent the proportion of adults age 18 and over reporting binge drinking during the past month. (Baseline: 10 percent in 1995)

• Increase the perception and knowledge base of the dangers of substance abuse among all segments of the community using integrated efforts between the public and private sectors.
  

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Lack of Involvement in Health Screenings and Other Preventive Measures

• Increase the number of work sites that offer health promotion and health screening programs, (Baseline: Not available)

• Increase to 50 percent the proportion of all employees who participate in employer-sponsored

• health promotion and screening activities. (Baseline: 37 percent, national)

• Increase by 4 the number of community-wide health fairs that offer comprehensive screenings and follow-up. (Baseline: Not available)

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Low Birth Weight Births (LBWB's)

• By 2007, reduce low birth rate births in Hamilton County to 8.4% of all live births.

• Desired Milestones: 
    1. Reduce LBWB's to 10.4% in 2004, or 420 LBWB's
    2. Reduce LBWB's to 9.4% in 2005, or 380 LBWB's
    3. Reduce LBWB's to 8.4% in 2006, or 340 LBWB's

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