§1704 Preventive Health Services: Annual Report

Summary

By October 31 each year, the Secretary must send the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees a report about preventive health services for the previous fiscal year. The report must explain the Department’s programs and actions. It must say how the Department taught veterans about staying healthy, what preventive screenings and clinical services were given (including what resources were used and how many veterans were reached), and how the Department gave each immunization on the adult schedule when it was due. The report must also say how services were aimed at special groups (for example, veterans with service‑connected disabilities, elderly, low‑income, women, institutionalized, and those at risk for mental illness), how work was coordinated with the Medical and Prosthetic Research Service and the National Center for Preventive Health, how services were included in training for medical students, residents, and staff, how the Department worked with other government and private groups, what research was done on long‑term links between screening, treatment, and health outcomes, and how cost effectiveness and quality of life were measured. The report must also list research done with Department staff, money, or equipment, naming the funding sources, publications and authors, any government or private partners, and funding applications that are pending or were denied (with the source of those applications). Finally, it must give an accounting of money spent by the National Center for Preventive Health under section 7318.