New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.11 - Executive order no. 11: directing the creation of the public health education unit

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Preventive medicine is the key to the future success of our
					 health care delivery system. By taking steps to reduce the incidence of illness
					 and disease, we are also reducing the need for hospitalization or prolonged
					 medical treatment. This can only be accomplished through a coordinated program
					 of public health information and education directed at both medical
					 professionals and the general public.
Today, therefore, I am directing the Commissioner of Health
					 to establish a new unit within his department, the function of this new unit to
					 be the broadening of public understanding of health problems, the expansion of
					 public knowledge of solutions to those problems and the widening of public
					 participation in and support of public health programs and services.
In order to facilitate and improve access to health
					 resources, I, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of
					 the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New
					 York, do hereby direct the Commissioner of Health to establish a new unit
					 within the Department of Health, to be the Public Health Education Unit.
I. Public Health Education Unit.
It shall be the function of the Public Health Education
					 Unit to:
examine the role of State, local and voluntary agencies in
					 health education;
widely disseminate information on health problems, issues
					 and solutions;
identify and advocate consumer health concerns for the
					 Department; and encourage the development of education services in medical care
					 settings, industrial settings and all settings in which the greatest number of
					 persons can be reached.
In particular, the Department of Health, through this new
					 unit, shall direct educational efforts to reaching the economically
					 disadvantaged who most often are outside the mainstream of education and
					 communication routinely provided by local health departments.
II. The Interagency Council on Critical
				  Health Problems.
The Interagency Council on Critical Health Problems is
					 hereby transferred from the Department of Education to the Department of
					 Health, in order to coordinate its activities with the Public Health Education
					 Unit established by this Order. With respect to any right, obligation or remedy
					 heretofore existing as to the Interagency on Critical Health Problems, the
					 Interagency Council on Critical Health Problems in the Health Department shall
					 be deemed and held to constitute the continuation of the Interagency Council on
					 Critical Health Problems in the Department of Education.
All appropriations or reappropriations together with any
					 Federal funds advanced to the Department of Education for the Interagency
					 Council on Critical Health Problems, to the extent of remaining unexpended or
					 unencumbered balances thereof, whether allocated or unallocated and whether
					 obligated or unobligated, shall be transferred to and made available for use by
					 the Department of Health for the same purposes for which originally
					 appropriated or advanced.
Signed: Hugh L. CareyDated: May 15, 1975