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Health Outcomes are the most direct measures of the length and quality of our lives.
These include progress in reducing deaths from cancer and cardiovascular diseases
(Washington's two leading causes of death), and the status of basic health and safety
efforts. Health disparities in each of these areas must also be considered.
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The Washington Health Foundation's (WHF) Health Outcomes provide an overall measure
of the health and well-being of Washingtonians by tracking the above.
Additionally, WHF's Health Outcomes focus on two diseases, cancer and cardiovascular
diseases, that claim roughly half the lives lost in Washington each year. Finally,
WHF monitors important "early warning" indicators—that is, WHF tracks
three potentially major, but largely preventable, Health Outcomes:
- combined AIDS, TB and hepatitis rates,
- accidents (largely motor vehicle), and
- infant mortality.
WHF believes Washington must make strides in each of these areas in different, but
equally critical, domains: public health, public safety, and the equitable distribution
of basic social and medical support.
The Health Outcomes WHF has selected are not the direct result of any single factor,
but can be moved when Washington makes improvements in both Healthy Systems and
Healthy Living.
View the
"Outcomes" Section of WHF's 2006 Report Card on Washington's Health.
Back to Outcomes & Measures.