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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 3578

PUBLIC LAW 95-626—NOV. 10, 1978 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981. No funds appropriated under this paragraph may be used for grants for immunization against influenza.". FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES FOR PREVENTIVE H E A L T H SERVICE PROGRAMS

SEC. 203. Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding after section 314 the following new section: " FOR M U L A GRANTS TO STATES FOR PREVENTIVE H E A L T H SERVICE PROGRAMS

42 USC 247.

" S E C 315. (a) The Secretary shall make grants to States to assist them in planning for and developing, and in providing (directly and through grants or contracts, or both, the public health authorities of political subdivisions of the States, other public entities, and private entities) preventive health service programs— "(1) which shall be designed to reduce, through primary or secondary prevention of risk factors and causative conditions, the mortality rate for one or more of the five leading causes of death •5*;"' ' ' -' in a State, and "(2) which the State receiving a grant under this subsection may design to also reduce, through primary or secondary prevention of risk factors and causative conditions, the burden of illness associated with one or more of the five leading causes of morbidity in the State. Grant "(b) No grant may be made under subsection (a) for a preventive applications. health service program unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. Such an application shall be in such form and be submitted in such manner as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe and shall provide (other than in an application for a planning and developing grant) — "(1) a detailed plan of the program for which the applicant is seeking a grant under subsection (a), which plan— "(A) shall require the use, to the extent practicable, of all relevant professional disciplines; "(B) may, at the option of the State, describe a program or programs that are targeted toward a particular age group; "(C) shall set forth quantitatively the current relevant rates of mortality or of morbidity, as the case may be, in the State measured and reported in accordance with regulations of the Secretary; "(D) shall set forth the quantitative goals for reduction in

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^}^g relevant rates of mortality and reduction in the risk factors or causative conditions associated with one or more of the five leading causes of death in the State; " (E) shall, if the applicant's program also concerns morbidity, set forth the quantitative goals for reduction in the relevant rates of morbidity and reduction in the risk factors or causative conditions associated with one or more of the five f " ' > leading causes of morbidity in the State; " (F) shall require a separate health communications component in the program or programs which shall include a description of how the communications media, including the electronic media, will be used to effectuate the purposes of the programs;