National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council

National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council

The new National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council, created by the Affordable Care Act, submitted its first status report to Congress Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

Chaired by Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and composed of senior government officials across federal departments and agencies, the Council is charged with elevating and coordinating prevention activities and designing a focused strategy across federal departments to prevent disease and promote the nation’s health. The report submitted today is the Council’s first, and an early step in the Administration’s development of a first-ever National Prevention and Health Promotion strategy. The Strategy’s impact will be significant because it will take a community health approach to prevention and well-being—identifying and prioritizing actions across government and between the public and private sectors. Both the forthcoming Strategy and the ongoing work of the new Council present a historic opportunity to bring prevention and wellness to the forefront of the nation’s efforts to improve the health status of all Americans.

Read the Council's report: http://www.hhs.gov/news/reports/nationalprevention2010report.pdf

Read the Fact Sheet: http://www.healthreform.gov/newsroom/preventioncouncil.html

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