The document describes the health status of Vermonters in 2010 and establishes population health indicators and goals for the decade. The department also issued the “State Health Improvement Plan 2013-2017,” which names three broad priorities: reducing the prevalence of chronic disease, reducing the prevalence of substance abuse and mental illness and improving childhood immunizations.
In addition, the department released a performance management tool called “Healthy Vermonters Toolkit/Performance Dashboard,” an online tool that tracks progress in improving population health indicators, such as smoking rates, and performance measures, such as the number of registrants with the Vermont Quit Network, according to the news release.
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