7 U.S.C. § 3178: Nutritional status monitoring

Summary

The Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must, within 90 days after September 29, 1977, send Congress a plan for a national system to track nutritional health. The plan must include an assessment made with surveys and ongoing checks to find how big nutrition-related health risks are, which people or places are most at risk, likely causes, and how things change over time; a surveillance part to spot fixable nutrition risks for people or local areas and link detection to direct help, using screening and other health program data (including programs under titles V, XVIII, and XIX of the Social Security Act and section 330 of the Public Health Service Act); and evaluations of whether nutrition programs are adequate, efficient, effective, and have any side effects. The plan must show how current efforts will be coordinated and recommend any new legal authority needed.

Title 7, §3178

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(a)Formulation of system

The Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall formulate and submit to Congress, within ninety days after September 29, 1977, a proposal for a comprehensive nutritional status monitoring system, to include:

(1)an assessment system consisting of periodic surveys and continuous monitoring to determine: the extent of risk of nutrition-related health problems in the United States; which population groups or areas of the country face greatest risk; and the likely causes of risk and changes in the above risk factors over time;

(2)a surveillance system to identify remediable nutrition-related health risks to individuals or for local areas, in such a manner as to tie detection to direct intervention and treatment. Such system should draw on screening and other information from other health programs, including those funded under titles V, XVIII, and XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 701 et seq., 1395 et seq., and 1396 et seq.] and section 330 of the Public Health Service Act; and

(3)program evaluations to determine the adequacy, efficiency, effectiveness, and side effects of nutrition-related programs in reducing health risks to individuals and populations.

(b)Coordination of existing activities; recommendation for necessary additional authorities

The proposal shall provide for coordination of activities under existing authorities and contain recommendations for any additional authorities necessary to achieve a comprehensive monitoring system.

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References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title V of the Social Security Act is classified principally to subchapter V (§ 701 et seq.) of chapter 7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act are classified generally to subchapters XVIII (§ 1395 et seq.) and XIX (§ 1396 et seq.), respectively, of chapter 7 of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables. section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is section 330 of act

July 1, 1944, which was classified to section 254c of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and was omitted in the general amendment of subpart I (§ 254b et seq.) of part D of subchapter II of chapter 6A of Title 42 by Pub. L. 104–299, § 2, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3626. section 2 and 3(a) of Pub. L. 104–299 enacted new section 330 and 330A of act

July 1, 1944, which are classified, respectively, to section 254b and 254c of Title 42.

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Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (a) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.

§3178 Nutritional Status Monitoring

Summary

Title 7, §3178

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