Public Health Planning and Grants: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3008 ... March 16 and 17, 1966, Volumes 11-12; Volumes 34-966

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Considers S. 3008, to amend the Public Health Services Act to increase and extend Federal assistance to state and local health service programs and to allow greater state-local administration of programs.

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Page 11 - ... (5) provide such methods of administration (Including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan...
Page 48 - Indiana 16 Iowa 17 Kansas 18 Kentucky 19 Louisiana 20 Maine 21 Maryland 22 Massachusetts 23 Michigan 24 Minnesota 25 Mississippi 26 Missouri 27 Montana 28 Nebraska 29 Nevada 30 New Hampshire 31 New Jersey 32 New Mexico 33 New York 34 North Carolina 35 North Dakota 36 Ohio 37 Oklahoma 38...
Page 38 - To improve our ability to chart our progress, I have asked the Secretary to establish within his office the resources to develop the necessary social statistics and indicators to supplement those prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Council of Economic Advisors. With these yardsticks, we can better measure the distance we have come and plan the way ahead.
Page 5 - Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan; "(6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the...
Page 80 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure for me to be here to represent our section.
Page 16 - Department" means the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (2) The Secretary is authorized, through agreements or otherwise, to arrange for assignment of officers and employees of States to the Department and assignment to States of officers and employees in the Department engaged in work related to health, for work which the Secretary determines will aid the Department in more effective discharge of its responsibilities in the field of health as authorized by law, including cooperation...
Page 34 - The alcoholic suffers from a disease which will yield eventually to scientific research and adequate treatment. Even with the present limited state of our knowledge, much can be done to reduce the untold suffering and uncounted waste caused by this affliction. I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to— appoint an Advisory Committee on Alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism;...
Page 129 - ... established methods for performing continuing professional and administrative evaluations of such activities; and (3> is in a position to take such steps as may be necessary to assure that such activities meet Federal and State requirements. (b) State health planning council. The State program must provide for the establishment of a State health planning council to advise the State agency in carrying out its functions under the approved State program. Council membership shall include representatives...
Page 10 - General that (i) the funds paid to the State under this subsection will be used to make a significant contribution toward providing and strengthening public health services in the various political subdivisions in order to improve the health of the people; (ii) such funds will be made available to other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, and organizations, in accordance...

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