42 U.S.C. § 300u–1: Grants and contracts for…

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The Secretary must fund and run research, and help others fund research, on health information, health promotion, preventive health services, and teaching people how to use health care correctly. Grant and contract applications must get peer review. The Secretary must also help people prepare and do research; find the best ways to share health information and encourage healthy behavior; study how environmental, work, social, and personal habits affect health; and create ways to measure cost and effectiveness, payment approaches, and models and standards for these activities. The Secretary must also make methods to assess specific medical services and tests, and evaluate preventive services (for example, blood pressure and cholesterol checks, smoking and substance abuse programs, cancer screening, diet and diabetes education, eye pressure checks, and stress management). The Secretary must do regular public surveys about Americans’ health needs, interests, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. The survey results and other similar studies must be used when making policies about health information, promotion, prevention, and teaching people to use health care appropriately.

Title 42, §300u–1

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(a)The Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or contract (and encourage others to support) research in health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care. Applications for grants and contracts under this section shall be subject to appropriate peer review. The Secretary shall also—

(1)provide consultation and technical assistance to persons who need help in preparing research proposals or in actually conducting research;

(2)determine the best methods of disseminating information concerning personal health behavior, preventive health services and the appropriate use of health care and of affecting behavior so that such information is applied to maintain and improve health, and prevent disease, reduce its risk, or modify its course or severity;

(3)determine and study environmental, occupational, social, and behavioral factors which affect and determine health and ascertain those programs and areas for which educational and preventive measures could be implemented to improve health as it is affected by such factors;

(4)develop (A) methods by which the cost and effectiveness of activities respecting health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care, can be measured, including methods for evaluating the effectiveness of various settings for such activities and the various types of persons engaged in such activities, (B) methods for reimbursement or payment for such activities, and (C) models and standards for the conduct of such activities, including models and standards for the education, by providers of institutional health services, of individuals receiving such services respecting the nature of the institutional health services provided the individuals and the symptoms, signs, or diagnoses which led to provision of such services;

(5)develop a method for assessing the cost and effectiveness of specific medical services and procedures under various conditions of use, including the assessment of the sensitivity and specificity of screening and diagnostic procedures; and

(6)enumerate and assess, using methods developed under paragraph (5), preventive health measures and services with respect to their cost and effectiveness under various conditions of use (which measures and services may include blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening and control, smoking cessation programs, substance abuse programs, cancer screening, dietary and nutritional counseling, diabetes screening and education, intraocular pressure screening, and stress management).

(b)The Secretary shall make a periodic survey of the needs, interest, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior of the American public regarding health and health care. The Secretary shall take into consideration the findings of such surveys and the findings of similar surveys conducted by national and community health education organizations, and other organizations and agencies for formulating policy respecting health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care.

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1992—Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 102–531 inserted before period “(which measures and services may include blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening and control, smoking cessation programs, substance abuse programs, cancer screening, dietary and nutritional counseling, diabetes screening and education, intraocular pressure screening, and stress management)”.

§300u–1 Grants and Contracts for Research Programs; Authority of Secretary; Review of Applications; Additional Functions; Periodic Public Survey

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Title 42, §300u–1

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