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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020: Letter Report
Posted by on April 6, 2011
Starting in 1990, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over the 10-year span. At the request of HHS, the IOM identified a set of leading health indicators that could be used by Healthy People 2020 and developed a conceptual framework within which the topics, indicators, and objectives would be developed or selected…
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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP 