Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 95 / Tuesday, May 16, 2000 / Notices 31173

Humphrey Building, 200 Independence

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

In 1979, the Department of Health and

Human Services began an initiative to

use health promotion and disease

prevention objectives to improve the

health of people living in the United

States. The first set of national health

targets was published that year in

Healthy People: the Surgeon General’s

Report on Health Promotion and Disease

Prevention, which included five goals to

be achieved by 1990 to reduced

mortality among four different age

groups and increase independence

among older adults. The goals were

supported by objectives that were

released in 1980, also with 1990 targets.

This national health agenda has since

been reformulated in each succeeding

decade. Healthy People 2000, the

second national prevention initiative,

reflected the progress and experience of

ten years, as well as an expanded

science base and surveillance system.

With the collaboration of an extensive

network of voluntary and professional

organizations, businesses, and

individuals, the framework of Healthy

People 2000 was designed with three

broad goals—increasing the span of

healthy life, reducing health disparities,

and achieving access to clinical

preventive services. To help meet those

goals, over 300 objectives with targets,

organized into 22 priority areas, aimed

to achieve improvements in health

status, risk reduction, and service

delivery. The most recent data available

show that about 60 percent of the

objectives had either met their target or

were progressing toward the target.

The challenges and successes of the

Healthy People 2000 initiative have

served as the starting points for Healthy

People 2010. While its framework is

based on the initiatives of the previous

two decades, Healthy People 2010

differs from previous efforts. The

initiative has grown to 28 focus areas

and 467 objectives. The two overarching

goals are: (1) Increase quality and years

of healthy life; and (2) eliminate health

disparities. Healthy People 2010

acknowledges that the many national

advances in health have not been

enjoyed equally by all demographic

groups in the United States. It calls for

the elimination of these disparities over

the next ten years.

Citation in Announcements

References to the national health

promotion initiative appear in

numerous program announcements of

the Department of Health and Human

Services. Examples of such citations,

updated to reflect the transition to

Healthy People 2010, include but are

not limited to the following (superseded

text in brackets):

‘‘The (Agency name) is committed to

achieving the health promotion and

disease prevention objectives of Healthy

People 2010 [2000], a national activity

to reduce morbidity and mortality and

improve the quality of life. This

announcement is related to the Healthy

People 2010 [2000] focus [priority]

area(s) (one or more of 28 areas). . . .’’

‘‘The following additional

requirements are applicable to this

program. (Listed sequentially from AR–

1 et seq. if applicable) AR–11 Healthy

People 2010 [2000]’’

‘‘Potential applicants may obtain a

copy of the Healthy People 2010 [2000]

objectives from/by * * * (with ordering

instructions as provided in the

following paragraph).’’

Availability of Documents

Volumes I and II of Healthy People

2010: Conference Edition (B0074) are for

sale at $22 per set by the ODPHP

Communication Support Center, P.O.

Box 37366, Washington, D.C. 20013–

7366. Each of the 28 chapters of Healthy

People 2010 is priced at $2 per copy.

Telephone orders can be placed to the

Center on (301) 468–5690. The Center

also sells the complete Conference

edition in CD–ROM format (B0071) for

$5.

This publication is available as well

on the Internet at www.health.gov/

healthypeople. Web site viewers should

proceed to ‘‘Publications’’.

Dated: May 8, 2000.

David Satcher,

Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon

General.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Committee on Vital and Health

Statistics: Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, the Department of

Health and Human Services announces

the following advisory committee

meeting.

Name: National Committee on Vital and

Health Statistics (NCVHS), Joint Meeting,

Subcommittee on Standards and Security,

and Workgroup on Computer-based Patient

Records.

Time and Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 1,

2000; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 2, 2000.

Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey

Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The Subcommittee and Working

Group will discuss its report to the HHS

Secretary on standards for patient medical

records information as required by the Health

Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

of 1996 (HIPAA). The Subcommittee will

finalize the report and approve it for

transmission to the full NCVHS. The

Subcommittee will also discuss plans for

upcoming hearings.

Notice: In the interest of security, the

Department has instituted stringent

procedures for entrance to the Hubert H.

Humphrey building by non-government

employees. Thus, persons without a

government identification card will need to

have the guard call for an escort to the

meeting.

Contact Person for More Information:

Substantive program information as well as

summaries of meetings and a roster of

committee members may be obtained from J.

Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., Senior Science

Advisor for Information Technology, Agency

for Health Care Research and Quality, 2101

East Jefferson Street #600, Rockville, MD

20852, phone: (301) 594–3938; or Marjorie S.

Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS,

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention, Room

1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest

Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782,

telephone (301) 458–4245. Information also

is available on the HCVHS home page of the

HHS website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/

where an agenda for the meeting will be

posted when available.

Dated: May 9, 2000.

James Scanlon,

Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of

the Assistant Secretary for Planning and

Evaluation.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Program Announcement 00088]

Health Promotion and Disease

Prevention for Rhode Island Senior

Citizens; Notice of Availability of

Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2000

funds for a grant program entitled

‘‘Health Promotion and Disease

Prevention for Rhode Island Senior

Citizens’’. CDC is committed to

achieving the health promotion and

disease prevention objectives of