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[CITE: 42USC300u-2]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
         SUBCHAPTER XV--HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
 
Sec. 300u-2. Grants and contracts for community health programs


(a) Authority of Secretary; particular activities

    The Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or 
contract (and encourage others to support) new and innovative programs 
in health information and health promotion, preventive health services, 
and education in the appropriate use of health care, and may 
specifically--
        (1) support demonstration and training programs in such matters 
    which programs (A) are in hospitals, ambulatory care settings, home 
    care settings, schools, day care programs for children, and other 
    appropriate settings representative of broad cross sections of the 
    population, and include public education activities of voluntary 
    health agencies, professional medical societies, and other private 
    nonprofit health organizations, (B) focus on objectives that are 
    measurable, and (C) emphasize the prevention or moderation of 
    illness or accidents that appear controllable through individual 
    knowledge and behavior;
        (2) provide consultation and technical assistance to 
    organizations that request help in planning, operating, or 
    evaluating programs in such matters;
        (3) develop health information and health promotion materials 
    and teaching programs including (A) model curriculums for the 
    training of educational and health professionals and 
    paraprofessionals in health education by medical, dental, and 
    nursing schools, schools of public health, and other institutions 
    engaged in training of educational or health professionals, (B) 
    model curriculums to be used in elementary and secondary schools and 
    institutions of higher learning, (C) materials and programs for the 
    continuing education of health professionals and paraprofessionals 
    in the health education of their patients, (D) materials for public 
    service use by the printed and broadcast media, and (E) materials 
    and programs to assist providers of health care in providing health 
    education to their patients; and
        (4) support demonstration and evaluation programs for individual 
    and group self-help programs designed to assist the participant in 
    using his individual capacities to deal with health problems, 
    including programs concerned with obesity, hypertension, and 
    diabetes.

(b) Grants to States and other public and nonprofit private entities; 
        costs of demonstrating and evaluating programs; development of 
        models

    The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and other 
public and nonprofit private entities to assist them in meeting the 
costs of demonstrating and evaluating programs which provide information 
respecting the costs and quality of health care or information 
respecting health insurance policies and prepaid health plans, or 
information respecting both. After the development of models pursuant to 
section 300u-3(4) and 300u-3(5) of this title for such information, no 
grant may be made under this subsection for a program unless the 
information to be provided under the program is provided in accordance 
with one of such models applicable to the information.

(c) Private nonprofit entities; limitation on amount of grant or 
        contract

    The Secretary is authorized to support by grant or contract (and to 
encourage others to support) private nonprofit entities working in 
health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and 
education in the appropriate use of health care. The amount of any grant 
or contract for a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1978, for an 
entity may not exceed 25 per centum of the expenses of the entity for 
such fiscal year for health information and health promotion, preventive 
health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, Sec. 1703, as added Pub. L. 94-317, 
title I, Sec. 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 697.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300u of this title.
