Priority Strategy 10: Enhancing Self-Care and Self-Management: Support individuals' self-management efforts to help healthy people stay healthy and allow people with chronic conditions to better manage their condition.

Priority Strategy 11: Protection from Disease or Injury: Protect public health by implementing core public health prevention and protection programs (e.g., food and water safety programs, immunization programs, falls)

Performance Measures:

PS – PM #15 (Relates to Priority Strategy 10): Patient use of self-management techniques measured by use of evidence-based quality benchmarks. For 2003/04 will report on percentage of patients with diabetes receiving at least 2 blood glucose (HbA1c) tests during the year.

Target 02/03: 45%

Target 03/04: 55%

Target 04/05: 60%

Target 05/06: 65%

PS – PM #16 (Relates to Priority Strategy 11): Immunization rates.

a. Two-year olds with up-to-date immunizations

Target 02/03: 82%

Target 03/04: 83%

Target 04/05: 85%

Target 05/06: 85%

b. Influenza vaccination, population age 65 and over (Targets will be revisited in 2004/05 when new data from an improved data source becomes available).

Target 02/03: 2% increase over prior year

Target 03/04: 2% increase over prior year

Target 04/05: 2% increase over prior year

Target 05/06: 2% increase over prior year