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Leading Health Indicators

Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) are a small set of Healthy New Jersey 2020 objectives selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them. New Jersey’s LHIs are intended to reflect the state’s major public health concerns at the beginning of the decade. 

What Are the Leading Health Indicators? (PDF)

Click the underlined words in the headers below to see the most recent data for each LHI.

Access to Primary Care: Personal Doctor

Birth Outcomes: Infant Death

Childhood Immunization
Increase the proportion of adults with a personal doctor or health care provider
  • Baseline (2011): 83.5%
  • Target (2020): 90.0%
The target was not achieved.		 Reduce the infant death rate per 1,000 live births
  • Baseline (2007): 5.1
  • Target (2020): 4.8
   Target achieved in 2012.		 Increase the percentage of children who receive the recommended doses of DTaP, polio, MMR, Hib, hepatitis B, varicella, and PCV by 24 months of age
  • Baseline (2010): 51.6%
  • Target (2020): 80.0%
The target was not achieved.

Heart Disease: Death Rate  

Obesity: Adults 

Obesity: Teens
Reduce the death rate due to coronary heart disease per 100,000 population (age-adjusted)
  • Baseline (2007): 140.1
  • Target (2020): 112.1
Target achieved in 2014.		 Prevent an increase in the proportion of the adult population (aged 20+ years) that is obese
  • Baseline (2011): 23.8%
  • Target (2020): 23.8% 
The target was not achieved.		 Prevent an increase in the proportion of the high school student population that is obese
  • Baseline (2009): 10.3%
  • Target (2020): 10.3%
The target was not achieved.

 

Status of Leading Health Indicators

proportion of LHIs met, improving, not improving