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[CITE: 42USC242p]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                   Part A--Research and Investigations
 
Sec. 242p. National disease prevention data profile

    (a) The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health 
Statistics, shall submit to Congress on March 15, 1990, and on March 15 
of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data 
profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation 
of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, 
incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and 
disability in the United States. Such profile shall include at a 
minimum--
        (1) mortality rates for preventable diseases;
        (2) morbidity rates associated with preventable diseases;
        (3) the physical determinants of health of the population of the 
    United States and the relationship between these determinants of 
    health and the incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of 
    death and disability; and
        (4) the behavioral determinants of health of the population of 
    the United States including, but not limited to, smoking, 
    nutritional and dietary habits, exercise, and alcohol consumption, 
    and the relationship between these determinants of health and the 
    incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of death and 
    disability.

    (b) In preparing the profile required by subsection (a) of this 
section, the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health 
Statistics, shall comply with all relevant provisions of sections 242k 
and 242m of this title.

(Pub. L. 95-626, title IV, Sec. 404, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3591; Pub. 
L. 100-177, title I, Sec. 106(b), Dec. 1, 1987, 101 Stat. 989.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 95-626, Nov. 10, 
1978, 92 Stat. 3551, known as the Health Services and Centers Amendments 
of 1978. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title of 1978 Amendments note set out under section 201 of this title 
and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Health Services and Centers 
Amendments of 1978, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act 
which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1987--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-177 substituted ``on March 15, 1990, 
and on March 15 of every third year thereafter'' for ``on December 1, 
1980, and on December 1 of every third year thereafter'' in first 
sentence.


                    Effective Date of 1987 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-177 applicable to reports and profiles 
required to be submitted after Nov. 1, 1987, see section 106(c) of Pub. 
L. 100-177, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.
