Federal Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide financial assistance to: (1) appropriate entities for the planning, development, and operation of eight regional preventive medicine centers; (2) public and private entities for research, development, and demonstrations in specified health promotion areas; and (3) public and nonprofit private educational organizations and agencies and regional preventive medicine centers for (A) demonstration projects designed to provide children with information about health risks and with behavioral skills to eliminate such risks, and (B) development and training of health manpower for faculty, administrative, and traineeship support of preventive medicine personnel.
Directs the Secretary to report to the President and Congress on the impact of this Act and specified subjects relating to health promotion.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Llama 3.2 · runs locally in your browser
Ask anything about this bill. The AI reads the full text to answer.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter for new line