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[CITE: 38USC1704]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
    CHAPTER 17--HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE
 
                          SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL
 
Sec. 1704. Preventive health services: annual report

    Not later than October 31 each year, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of 
Representatives a report on preventive health services. Each such report 
shall include the following:
        (1) A description of the programs and activities of the 
    Department with respect to preventive health services during the 
    preceding fiscal year, including a description of the following:
            (A) The programs conducted by the Department--
                (i) to educate veterans with respect to health promotion 
            and disease prevention; and
                (ii) to provide veterans with preventive health 
            screenings and other clinical services, with such 
            description setting forth the types of resources used by the 
            Department to conduct such screenings and services and the 
            number of veterans reached by such screenings and services.

            (B) The means by which the Secretary addressed the specific 
        preventive health services needs of particular groups of 
        veterans (including veterans with service-connected 
        disabilities, elderly veterans, low-income veterans, women 
        veterans, institutionalized veterans, and veterans who are at 
        risk for mental illness).
            (C) The manner in which the provision of such services was 
        coordinated with the activities of the Medical and Prosthetic 
        Research Service of the Department and the National Center for 
        Preventive Health.
            (D) The manner in which the provision of such services was 
        integrated into training programs of the Department, including 
        initial and continuing medical training of medical students, 
        residents, and Department staff.
            (E) The manner in which the Department participated in 
        cooperative preventive health efforts with other governmental 
        and private entities (including State and local health promotion 
        offices and not-for-profit organizations).
            (F) The specific research carried out by the Department with 
        respect to the long-term relationships among screening 
        activities, treatment, and morbidity and mortality outcomes.
            (G) The cost effectiveness of such programs and activities, 
        including an explanation of the means by which the costs and 
        benefits (including the quality of life of veterans who 
        participate in such programs and activities) of such programs 
        and activities are measured.

        (2) A specific description of research activities on preventive 
    health services carried out during that period using employees, 
    funds, equipment, office space, or other support services of the 
    Department, with such description setting forth--
            (A) the source of funds for those activities;
            (B) the articles or publications (including the authors of 
        the articles and publications) in which those activities are 
        described;
            (C) the Federal, State, or local governmental entity or 
        private entity, if any, with which such activities were carried 
        out; and
            (D) the clinical, research, or staff education projects for 
        which funding applications were submitted (including the source 
        of the funds applied for) and upon which a decision is pending 
        or was denied.

        (3) An accounting of the expenditure of funds during that period 
    by the National Center for Preventive Health under section 7318 of 
    this title.

(Added Pub. L. 102-585, title V, Sec. 512(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 
4957.)
