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Control and Prevention, shall conduct and support 
research and public health activities with respect to 
diabetes in minority populations. 
‘‘(2) CERTAIN
ACTIVITIES.—Activities under 
paragraph (1) regarding diabetes in minority popu-
lations shall include the following: 
‘‘(A) Further enhancing the National 
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by 
over-sampling Asian-American, Native Hawai-
ian, and Other Pacific Islanders in appropriate 
geographic areas to better determine the preva-
lence of diabetes in such populations as well as 
to improve the data collection of diabetes pene-
tration disaggregated into major ethnic groups 
within such populations. The Secretary shall en-
sure that any such oversampling does not re-
duce the oversampling of other minority popu-
lations including African-American and Latino 
populations. 
‘‘(B) Through the Division of Diabetes 
Translation— 
‘‘(i) providing for prevention research 
to better understand how to influence 
health care systems changes to improve 
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quality of care being delivered to such pop-
ulations; 
‘‘(ii) carrying out model demonstra-
tion projects to design, implement, and 
evaluate effective diabetes prevention and 
control interventions for minority popu-
lations, including culturally appropriate 
community-based interventions; 
‘‘(iii) developing and implementing a 
strategic plan to reduce diabetes in minor-
ity populations through applied research to 
reduce disparities and culturally and lin-
guistically appropriate community-based 
interventions; 
‘‘(iv) supporting, through the national 
diabetes prevention program under section 
399V–3, diabetes prevention program sites 
in underserved regions highly impacted by 
diabetes; and 
‘‘(v) implementing, through the na-
tional diabetes prevention program under 
section 399V–3, a demonstration program 
developing new metrics measuring health 
outcomes related to diabetes that can be 
stratified by specific minority populations. 
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‘‘(b) EDUCATION.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, shall direct the Division of Diabetes Translation 
to conduct and support both programs to educate the pub-
lic on diabetes in minority populations and programs to 
educate minority populations about the causes and effects 
of diabetes. 
‘‘(c) DIABETES; HEALTH PROMOTION, PREVENTION 
ACTIVITIES, AND ACCESS.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention and the National Diabetes Education Program, 
shall conduct and support programs to educate specific 
minority populations through culturally appropriate and 
linguistically appropriate information campaigns about 
prevention of, and managing, diabetes. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘minority population’ means a racial and ethnic mi-
nority group, as defined in section 1707.’’. 
SEC. 773. RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. 
Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.), as amended, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 399V–7. PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE HEALTH PRO-
VIDERS ON THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DI-
ABETES IN MINORITY POPULATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Director of the Health Resources and Services Admin-
istration, shall conduct and support programs described 
in subsection (b) to educate health professionals on the 
causes and effects of diabetes in minority populations. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAMS.—Programs described in this sub-
section, with respect to education on diabetes in minority 
populations, shall include the following: 
‘‘(1) Giving priority, under the primary care 
training and enhancement program under section 
747— 
‘‘(A) to awarding grants to focus on or ad-
dress diabetes; and 
‘‘(B) adding minority populations to the 
list of vulnerable populations that should be 
served by such grants. 
‘‘(2) Providing additional funds for the Health 
Careers Opportunity Program, Centers for Excel-
lence, and the Minority Faculty Fellowship Program 
to partner with the Office of Minority Health under 
section 1707 and the National Institutes of Health 
to strengthen programs for career opportunities fo-
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cused on diabetes treatment and care within under-
served regions highly impacted by diabetes. 
‘‘(3) Developing a diabetes focus within, and 
providing additional funds for, the National Health 
Service Corps Scholarship Program— 
‘‘(A) to place individuals in areas that are 
disproportionately affected by diabetes and to 
provide diabetes treatment and care in such 
areas; and 
‘‘(B) to provide such individuals continuing 
medical education specific to diabetes care.’’. 
SEC. 774. RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. 
Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.), as amended, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following section: 
‘‘SEC. 399V–8. RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OTHER ACTIVI-
TIES REGARDING DIABETES IN AMERICAN IN-
DIAN POPULATIONS. 
‘‘In addition to activities under sections 317V–6 and 
434B, the Secretary, acting through the Indian Health 
Service and in collaboration with other appropriate Fed-
eral agencies, shall— 
‘‘(1) conduct and support research and other 
activities with respect to diabetes; and 
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‘‘(2) coordinate the collection of data on clini-
cally and culturally appropriate diabetes treatment, 
care, prevention, and services by health care profes-
sionals to the American Indian population.’’. 
SEC. 775. UPDATED REPORT ON HEALTH DISPARITIES. 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
seek to enter into an arrangement with the Institute of 
Medicine under which the Institute will— 
(1) not later than 1 year after the date of en-
actment of this Act, submit to the Congress an up-
dated version of the Institute’s 2002 report entitled 
‘‘Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic 
Disparities in Health Care’’; and 
(2) in such updated version, address how racial 
and ethnic health disparities have changed since the 
publication of the original report. 
Subtitle G—Lung Disease 
SEC. 776. EXPANSION OF THE NATIONAL ASTHMA EDU-
CATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The prevalence of asthma has increased 
since 1980 and affects 25 million Americans. 
(2) Significant disparities in asthma morbidity 
and mortality exist for both adults and children par-
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