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July 2023

The First Federal Measure of Overall Well-Being Is Here, but What Does It Mean?

Posted on July 6, 2023 by ODPHP

Health and Well-Being Matter. ODPHP Director RDML Paul Reed, MD.

Healthy People 2030, tracks 8 Overall Health and Well-Being Measures (OHMs). Each represents a global outcome measure intended to assess the trajectory toward the Healthy People 2030 vision. OHM-01, the new well-being measure, is expressed as overall life satisfaction and reflects cumulative contributions of health and non-health factors. Now that the baseline for this measure of overall well-being is established, we can begin to evolve our understanding of it, and others like it and explore their implications more fully.

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