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[CITE: 42USC300u-3]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
         SUBCHAPTER XV--HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
 
Sec. 300u-3. Grants and contracts for information programs; 
        authority of Secretary; particular activities
        
    The Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or 
contract (and encourage others to support) such activities as may be 
required to make information respecting health information and health 
promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate 
use of health care available to the consumers of medical care, providers 
of such care, schools, and others who are or should be informed 
respecting such matters. Such activities may include at least the 
following:
        (1) The publication of information, pamphlets, and other reports 
    which are specially suited to interest and instruct the health 
    consumer, which information, pamphlets, and other reports shall be 
    updated annually, shall pertain to the individual's ability to 
    improve and safeguard his own health; shall include material, 
    accompanied by suitable illustrations, on child care, family life 
    and human development, disease prevention (particularly prevention 
    of pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer), physical 
    fitness, dental health, environmental health, nutrition, safety and 
    accident prevention, drug abuse and alcoholism, mental health, 
    management of chronic diseases (including diabetes and arthritis), 
    and venereal diseases; and shall be designed to reach populations of 
    different languages and of different social and economic 
    backgrounds.
        (2) Securing the cooperation of the communications media, 
    providers of health care, schools, and others in activities designed 
    to promote and encourage the use of health maintaining information 
    and behavior.
        (3) The study of health information and promotion in advertising 
    and the making to concerned Federal agencies and others such 
    recommendations respecting such advertising as are appropriate.
        (4) The development of models and standards for the publication 
    by States, insurance carriers, prepaid health plans, and others 
    (except individual health practitioners) of information for use by 
    the public respecting the cost and quality of health care, including 
    information to enable the public to make comparisons of the cost and 
    quality of health care.
        (5) The development of models and standards for the publication 
    by States, insurance carriers, prepaid health plans, and others of 
    information for use by the public respecting health insurance 
    policies and prepaid health plans, including information on the 
    benefits provided by the various types of such policies and plans, 
    the premium charges for such policies and plans, exclusions from 
    coverage or eligibility for coverage, cost sharing requirements, and 
    the ratio of the amounts paid as benefits to the amounts received as 
    premiums and information to enable the public to make relevant 
    comparisons of the costs and benefits of such policies and plans.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, Sec. 1704, as added Pub. L. 94-317, 
title I, Sec. 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 698; amended Pub. L. 98-551, 
Sec. 2(b), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Par. (6). Pub. L. 98-551 struck out par. (6) which provided 
grant authority to the Secretary to assess, with respect to the 
effectiveness, safety, cost, and required training for and conditions of 
use, of new aspects of health care, and new activities, programs, and 
services designed to improve human health and publish in readily 
understandable language for public and professional use such assessments 
and, in the case of controversial aspects of health care, activities, 
programs, or services, publish differing views or opinions respecting 
the effectiveness, safety, cost, and required training for and 
conditions of use, of such aspects of health care, activities, programs, 
or services.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 300u, 300u-2 of this title.
