@article{ref1,
title="Community readiness to meet Healthy People 2010 targets",
journal="Journal of public health management and practice",
year="2003",
author="Kanarek, Norma and Bialek, Ron",
volume="9",
number="3",
pages="249-254",
abstract="Healthy People 2010 national objectives seek to engage public health systems in health improvement. Focusing on &quot;healthy communities,&quot; the article describes the readiness of U.S. counties to meet targets and the technical assistance that may be needed. Using rate comparisons and trends, four readiness-to-improve health categories are calculated for nine mortality rates. Greatest readiness for improvement was found for coronary heart disease mortality, where the fewest jurisdictions (35%) were static, having neither met targets nor improved; least readiness (65%) was observed for colon and rectum cancer and suicide. Nevertheless, some counties (50-1,050) were exemplary, already meeting the target and still improving.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1078-4659",
doi="10.1097/00124784-200305000-00011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200305000-00011"
}