Health Planning and Resources Development Amendments of 1978: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10460 ...

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Page 53 - Federal financial assistance must be directed to support the marshaling of all health resources — national, State, and local — to assure comprehensive health services of high quality for every person, but without interference with existing patterns of private professional practice of medicine, dentistry, and related healing arts.
Page 246 - The agency shall assemble and analyze data concerning — (A) the status (and its determinants) of the health of the residents of its health service area, (B) the status of the health care delivery system in the area and the use of that system by the residents of the area, (C) the effect the area's health care delivery system has on the health of the residents of the area, (D) the number, type, and location of the area's health resources, including health services, manpower, and facilities, (E) the...
Page 236 - Congress, as it considers renewal of the planning law. With few exceptions, the Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) and State Health Planning and Development Agencies (SHPDAs) created since 1975 have not achieved full function or full designation. Some of these agencies have previously functioned with a different charter under State health laws or the new now superceded comprehensive health planning act. In addition, historically, regions of the country and within the states differ widely in the level...
Page 160 - Congress finds that the following deserve priority consideration in the formulation of national health planning goals and in the development and operation of Federal, State, and area health planning and resources development programs: (1) The provision of primary care services for medically underserved populations, especially those which are located in rural or economically depressed areas.
Page 338 - records" includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by...
Page 159 - ... effective health planning for its health service area and the promotion of the development within the area of health services, manpower, and facilities which meet identified needs, reduce documented inefficiencies, and implement the health plans of the agency.
Page 4 - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Page 672 - The membership shall — (I) include (either through consumer or provider members) public elected officials and other representatives of governmental authorities in the agency's health service area and representatives of public and private agencies in the area concerned with health, (II) include a percentage of individuals who reside in nonmetropolitan areas within the health service area which percentage is equal to the percentage of residents of the area who reside in nonmetropolitan areas, and...
Page 160 - The Congress finds that the following deserve priority consideration in the formulation of national health planning goals and in the development and operation of Federal, State, and area health planning and resources development programs...
Page 160 - The promotion of activities for the prevention of disease, including studies of nutritional and environmental factors affecting health and the provision of preventive health care services.

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