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ticularly for low-income and minority populations, 
particularly African-Americans and Puerto Ricans. 
(3) African-American children are twice as like-
ly to have asthma as White children. 
(4) In 2010, almost 4.5 million non-Hispanic 
African-Americans reported having asthma. African- 
Americans with asthma are three times as likely to 
visit the emergency department and twice as likely 
to get hospitalized as White patients with asthma. 
(5) Puerto Ricans are 3.4 times as likely to die 
from asthma compared with all other Hispanic or 
Latino groups. Overall Hispanic Americans are 30 
percent more likely to be hospitalized for asthma 
than non-Hispanic Whites. 
(6) More than 65 percent of adults with asthma 
are women. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall convene a working group com-
prised of patient groups, nonprofit organizations, medical 
societies, and other relevant governmental and nongovern-
mental entities, including those that participate in the Na-
tional Asthma Education and Prevention Program, to de-
velop a report to Congress that— 
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(1) catalogs, with respect to asthma prevention, 
management, and surveillance— 
(A) the activities of the Federal Govern-
ment, including identifying all Federal pro-
grams that carry out asthma-related activities, 
as well as assessment of the progress of the 
Federal Government and States, with respect to 
achieving the goals of the Healthy People 2020 
initiative; and 
(B) the activities of other entities that par-
ticipate in the program, including nonprofit or-
ganizations, patient advocacy groups, and med-
ical societies; and 
(2) makes recommendations for the future di-
rection of asthma activities, in consultation with re-
searchers from the National Institutes of Health and 
other member bodies of the National Asthma Edu-
cation and Prevention Program who are qualified to 
review and analyze data and evaluate interventions, 
including— 
(A) description of how the Federal Govern-
ment may better coordinate and improve its re-
sponse to asthma including identifying any bar-
riers that may exist; 
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(B) description of how the Federal Govern-
ment may continue, expand, and improve its 
private-public partnerships with respect to asth-
ma including identifying any barriers that may 
exist; 
(C) identification of steps that may be 
taken to reduce the— 
(i) morbidity, mortality, and overall 
prevalence of asthma; 
(ii) financial burden of asthma on so-
ciety; 
(iii) burden of asthma on dispropor-
tionately affected areas, particularly those 
in medically underserved populations (as 
defined in section 330(b)(3) of the Public 
Health 
Service 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
254b(b)(3))); and 
(iv) burden of asthma as a chronic 
disease; 
(D) identification of programs and policies 
that have achieved the steps described in sub-
paragraph (C), and steps that may be taken to 
expand such programs and policies to benefit 
larger populations; and 
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(E) recommendations for future research 
and interventions. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—At the end of the 5-year 
period following the submission of the report under sub-
section (a), the National Asthma Education and Preven-
tion Program shall evaluate the analyses and rec-
ommendations under such report and determine whether 
a new report to the Congress is necessary, and make ap-
propriate recommendations to the Congress. 
SEC. 777. ASTHMA-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTERS 
FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. 
Section 317I of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247b–10) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 317I. ASTHMA-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTERS 
FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND 
EDUCATION
TO
THE PUBLIC.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, shall collaborate with State and local 
health departments to conduct activities, including the 
provision of information and education to the public re-
garding asthma including— 
‘‘(1) deterring the harmful consequences of un-
controlled asthma; and 
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‘‘(2) disseminating health education and infor-
mation regarding prevention of asthma episodes and 
strategies for managing asthma. 
‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF STATE ASTHMA PLANS.— 
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, shall collaborate with 
State and local health departments to develop State plans 
incorporating public health responses to reduce the burden 
of asthma, particularly regarding disproportionately af-
fected populations. 
‘‘(c) COMPILATION OF DATA.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, shall, in cooperation with State and local 
public health officials— 
‘‘(1) conduct asthma surveillance activities to 
collect data on the prevalence and severity of asth-
ma, the effectiveness of public health asthma inter-
ventions, and the quality of asthma management, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(A) collection of household data on the 
local burden of asthma; 
‘‘(B) surveillance of health care facilities; 
and 
‘‘(C) collection of data not containing indi-
vidually identifiable information from electronic 
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health records or other electronic communica-
tions; 
‘‘(2) compile and annually publish data regard-
ing the prevalence and incidence of childhood asth-
ma, the child mortality rate, and the number of hos-
pital admissions and emergency department visits by 
children associated with asthma nationally and in 
each State and at the county level by age, sex, race, 
and ethnicity, as well as lifetime and current preva-
lence; and 
‘‘(3) compile and annually publish data regard-
ing the prevalence and incidence of adult asthma, 
the adult mortality rate, and the number of hospital 
admissions and emergency department visits by 
adults associated with asthma nationally and in each 
State and at the county level by age, sex, race, eth-
nicity, industry, and occupation, as well as lifetime 
and current prevalence. 
‘‘(d) COORDINATION OF DATA COLLECTION.—The 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, in conjunction with State and local health depart-
ments, shall coordinate data collection activities under 
subsection (c)(2) so as to maximize comparability of re-
sults. 
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