A bill to amend the Public Service Act to provide authority for health information, education, and promotion programs, to revise and extend the authority for disease prevention and control programs, and to revise and extend the authority for venereal disease programs.
National Health Education and Disease Prevention Act - Title I: Health Information, Education, and Promotion - National Health Information, Education, and Promotion Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to formulate under the Public Health Service Act national goals, and a strategy to achieve such goals, with respect to health information, education, and promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of medical care. Directs the Secretary to undertake research and demonstration projects, and training programs, to achieve such goals.
Authorizes the Secretary to make recommendations to the Congress and to reorganize and coordinate health information, education, and promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of medical care.
Provides that no payment may be made under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act unless the recipients provide health education in a form and a manner which meets the standards developed under this Act.
Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the status of health information, education, and preventive health services.
Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the National Institute for Health Information, Education, and Promotion to be headed by a Director.
Authorizes to be appropriated a total of $150,000,000 for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 to the Institute for research programs, community programs, and information programs designed to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Establishes the National Council on Health Information, Education, and Promotion and specifies the membership of the Council. Directs the Council to provide advice and recommendations for the consideration of the Secretary on matters of general policy with respect to the functions of the Institute.
Title II: Disease Prevention and Control - Disease Prevention and Control Amendments. Authorizes to be appropriated $120,000,000 in total for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for grants to States and public and nonprofit private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of disease prevention and control programs (including administrative costs and the costs of demonstrations and evaluations of such programs).
Directs the Secretary to develop a program under which personnel, equipment, medical supplies, and other resources of the Public Health Service may be used to effectively control epidemics of any disease.
Title III: Miscellaneous Amendment - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Public Health Service Act.
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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