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§242p National Disease Prevention Data Profile

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter II— GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part A— Research and Investigations › § 242p

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, using the National Center for Health Statistics, must send Congress a national disease prevention data profile on March 15, 1990, and on March 15 every three years after that. The profile must show death rates and illness rates for preventable diseases, describe physical factors that affect health and how they relate to preventable deaths and disabilities, and list behavioral factors (for example, smoking, diet, exercise, and alcohol) and their links to these conditions. The Secretary must follow the relevant rules in sections 242k and 242m when preparing the profile.

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Title 42, §242p

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, shall submit to Congress on March 15, 1990, and on March 15 of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and disability in the United States. Such profile shall include at a minimum—
(1)mortality rates for preventable diseases;
(2)morbidity rates associated with preventable diseases;
(3)the physical determinants of health of the population of the United States and the relationship between these determinants of health and the incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of death and disability; and
(4)the behavioral determinants of health of the population of the United States including, but not limited to, smoking, nutritional and dietary habits, exercise, and alcohol consumption, and the relationship between these determinants of health and the incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of death and disability.
(b)In preparing the profile required by subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, shall comply with all relevant provisions of section 242k and 242m of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 95–626, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3551, known as the Health Services and Centers

Amendments

of 1978. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1978

Amendments

note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Health Services and Centers

Amendments

of 1978, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1987—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–177 substituted “on
March 15, 1990, and on March 15 of every third year thereafter” for “on
December 1, 1980, and on December 1 of every third year thereafter” in first sentence.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1987 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–177 applicable to reports and profiles required to be submitted after Nov. 1, 1987, see section 106(c) of Pub. L. 100–177, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 242p

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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