This list of objectives includes all those from Focus Area 16, Maternal, Infant, and Child Health, related objectives from other focus areas as published in Healthy People 2010, and additional objectives identified by Tom Vallin, National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 2000.

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1. Access to Quality Health Services

1-2. Health insurance coverage for clinical preventive services
1-4. Source of ongoing care
1-5. Usual primary care provider
1-6. Difficulties or delays in obtaining needed health care
1-9. Hospitalization for ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions
1-12. Single toll-free number for poison control centers
1-13. Trauma care systems
1-14. Special needs of children

3. Cancer

3-3. Breast cancer deaths
3-4. Cervical cancer deaths
3-11. Pap tests
3-13. Mammograms

5. Diabetes

5-8. Gestational diabetes

6. Disabilities and Secondary Conditions

6-2. Feelings and depression among children with disabilities
6-7. Congregate care of children and adults with disabilities
6-9. Children and youth with disabilities included in regular education programs
6-12. Environmental barriers affecting participation

7. Educational and Community-Based Programs

7-1. High school completion
7-2. School health education
7-3. Health risk behavior for college and university students
7-4. School nurse-to-student ratio
7-11. Culturally appropriate community health promotion

8. Environmental Health

8-11. Elevated blood lead levels in children
8-20. School policies to protect against environmental hazards
8-22. Lead-based paint testing
8-27. Monitoring environmentally related diseases

9. Family Planning

9-1. Intended pregnancy
9-2. Birth spacing
9-6. Male involvement
9-7. Adolescent pregnancy
9-8. Abstinence before 15 years
9-9. Abstinence among adolescents aged 15 to 17 years
9-10. Pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted disease protection
9-11. Pregnancy prevention education

13. HIV

13-17. Prenatally acquired HIV infection

14. Immunization and Infectious Diseases

14-1. Vaccine-preventable diseases
14-2. Hepatitis B in infants and young children
14-4. Bacterial meningitis in young children
14-18. Antibiotics prescribed for ear infections
14-19. Antibiotics prescribed for colds
14-22. Universally recommended vaccination of children 19-35 months of age
14-23. Vaccination coverage for children in daycare, kindergarten, and first grade
14-24. Fully immunized children 19-35 months
14-25. Providers who measure childhood vaccination coverage levels
14-26. State/community population-based immunization registries for children
14-27. Vaccination coverage among adolescents
14-30. Adverse events from vaccinations
14-31. Active surveillance for vaccine safety

15. Injury and Violence Prevention

15-1. Nonfatal head injuries
15-2. Nonfatal spinal cord injuries
15-3. Firearm-related injury deaths
15-4. Proper firearm storage in homes
15-5. Nonfatal firearm-related injuries
15-6. Child fatality review
15-7. Nonfatal poisoning
15-8. Deaths from poisoning
15-9. Deaths from suffocation
15-10. Emergency department surveillance systems
15-11. Hospital discharge surveillance systems
15-12. Emergency department visits
15-13. Deaths from unintentional injuries
15-14. Nonfatal unintentional injuries
15-15. Deaths from motor vehicle crashes
15-17. Nonfatal motor vehicle injuries
15-18. Nonfatal pedestrian injuries
15-19. Safety belts
15-20. Child restraints
15-23. Bicycle helmet use
15-24. Bicycle helmet laws
15-25. Residential fire deaths
15-29. Drownings
15-31. Injury protection in school sports
15-32. Homicides
15-33. Maltreatment and maltreatment fatalities of children
15-34. Physical assault by intimate partners
15-35. Rape or attempted rape
15-36. Sexual assault other than rape
15-37. Physical assaults
15-38. Physical fighting among adolescents
15-39. Weapon carrying by adolescents on school property

16. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health

16-1. Fetal and infant deaths
16-2. Child deaths
16-3. Adolescent and young adult deaths
16-4. Maternal deaths
16-5. Maternal illness and complications due to pregnancy
16-6. Prenatal care
16-7. Childbirth classes
16-8. Very low birth weight infants born at Level III hospitals
16-9. Cesarean deliveries
16-10. Low birth weight and very low birth weight
16-11. Preterm birth
16-12. Weight gain during pregnancy
16-13. Infants put to sleep on their backs
16-14. Developmental disabilities
16-15. Spina bifida and other neural tube defects
16-16. Optimum folic acid
16-17. Prenatal substance exposure
16-18. Fetal alcohol syndrome
16-19. Breastfeeding
16-20. Newborn bloodspot screening
16-21. Sepsis among infants with sickle cell disease
16-22. Medical home for children with special health care needs
16-23. Service systems for children with special health care needs

18. Mental Health and Mental Illness

18-1. Suicide
18-2. Adolescent suicide attempts
18-5. Eating disorder relapses
18-7. Treatment for children with mental health problems
18-8. Juvenile justice facility screening

19. Nutrition and Overweight

19-3. Overweight or obesity in children and adolescents
19-4. Growth retardation in children
19-5. Fruit intake
19-6. Vegetable intake
19-7. Grain product intake
19-8. Saturated fat intake
19-9. Total fat intake
19-10. Sodium intake
19-11. Calcium intake
19-12. Iron deficiency in young children and in females of childbearing age
19-13. Anemia in low-income pregnant females
19-14. Iron deficiency in pregnant females
19-15. Meals and snacks at school

21. Oral Health

21-1. Dental caries experience
21-2. Untreated dental decay
21-8. Dental sealants
21-9. Community water fluoridation
21-10. Use of oral health care system
21-12. Dental services for low-income children
21-13. School-based health centers with oral health component
21-14. Health centers with oral health service components
21-15. Referral for cleft lip/palate
21-16. State-based surveillance system

22. Physical Fitness and Activity

22-6. Moderate physical activity in adolescents
22-7. Vigorous physical activity in adolescents
22-8. Physical education requirement in schools
22-9. Daily physical education in schools
22-10. Physical activity in physical education class
22-11. Television viewing
22-12. School physical activity facilities

23. Public Health Infrastructure

23-1. Public health employee access to Internet
23-2. Public access to information and surveillance data
23-3. Use of geocoding in health data systems
23-4. Data for all population groups
23-5. Data for Leading Health Indicators, Health Status Indicators, and Priority Data Needs at Tribal, State, and local levels
23-6. National tracking of Healthy People 2010 objectives
23-7. Timely release of data on objectives
23-8. Competencies for public health workers
23-10. Continuing education and training by public health agencies
23-11. Performance standards for essential public health services
23-12. Health improvement plans
23-13. Access to public health laboratory services
23-14. Access to epidemiology services
23-15. Model statutes related to essential public health services
23-16. Data on public health expenditures
23-17. Prevention research

24. Respiratory Diseases

24-1. Deaths from asthma
24-2. Hospitalizations for asthma
24-3. Hospital emergency department visits for asthma
24-5. School or work days lost

25. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

25-1. Chlamydia
25-8. Heterosexually transmitted HIV infection in women
25-9. Congenital syphilis
25-10. Neonatal STDs
25-11. Responsible adolescent sexual behavior
25-12. Sexual behavior messages on television
25-14. Screening in youth detention facilities and jails
25-16. Annual screening for genital chlamydia (HP Goal is for women under 25 years)
25-17. Screening of pregnant women
25-18. Compliance with recognized STD treatment standards

26. Substance Abuse

26-6. Adolescents riding with a driver who has been drinking
26-9. Substance-free youth
26-10. Adolescent and adult use of illicit substances
26-11. Binge drinking
26-14. Steroid use among adolescents
26-15. Inhalant use among adolescents
26-16. Peer disapproval of substance abuse
26-17. Perception of risk associated with substance abuse

27. Tobacco Use

27-2. Adolescent tobacco use
27-3. Initiation of tobacco use
27-4. Age at first use of tobacco
27-6. Smoking cessation during pregnancy
27-7. Smoking cessation by adolescents
27-9. Exposure to tobacco smoke at home among children
27-11. Smoke-free and tobacco-free schools
27-14. Enforcement of illegal tobacco sales to minors laws
27-15. Retail license suspension for sales to minors
27-16. Tobacco advertising and promotion targeting adolescents and young adults
27-17. Adolescent disapproval of smoking
28-2. Vision screening for children

28. Vision and Hearing

28-4. Impairment in children and adolescents
28-11. Newborn hearing screening, evaluation, and intervention
28-12. Otitis media
28-13. Rehabilitation for hearing impairment
28-17. Noise-induced hearing loss in children