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Download full textFarb, Jessica – US Government Accountability Office, 2023
Each year in the U.S., hundreds of individuals die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, and tens of thousands experience unexpected outcomes such as heart failure. In 2022, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that research showed more than half of rural counties lacked hospital-based services for pregnant…
Descriptors: Obstetrics, Birth, Mothers, Health Services
US Congress, 2010
The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152) was put in place to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13). The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. (A) Title--Coverage,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Federal Legislation, Income, Public Policy
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2016
"Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. President Obama's 2017 Budget makes critical investments while adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement he signed into the previous fall, and it lifts sequestration in…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Government, Economic Progress, Fiscal Capacity
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
The text of Part 1 of a Senate hearing on the Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1990 is reported in this document. It is noted that this act would amend the Public Service Act to establish a center for tobacco products, to inform the public concerning the hazards of tobacco use, to disclose and restrict additives to such…
Descriptors: Advertising, Federal Legislation, Health Education, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
The text of Part 2 of a Senate hearing on the Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1990 is reported in this document. It is noted that this act would amend the Public Service Act to establish a center for tobacco products, to inform the public concerning the hazards of tobacco use, to disclose and restrict additives to such…
Descriptors: Advertising, Federal Legislation, Health Education, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
These hearings present opening statements which argue for the government's responsibility to protect the health of citizens, citing the dangerous and often fatal relationship of cigarette smoking to cancer and heart and lung disease. Statements include those from Mrs. Barney Clark, widow of the first heart transplant patient, and physicians,…
Descriptors: Diseases, Federal Legislation, Government Role, Health Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The text of a hearing on drug abuse prevention and education is provided in this document. After an opening statement by Representative Augustus Hawkins which briefly describes progress that has been made towards drug abuse prevention legislation, statements are given by these witnesses: (1) Carolyn Burns of the National Federation of Parents for…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Federal Legislation, Health Education
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2015
"Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2016" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. The ideas offered by President Obama in this 2016 Budget are designed to bring middle-class economics into the 21st Century. They are intended to help working families…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Government, Economic Progress, Fiscal Capacity
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
This document contains a report written to accompany "The Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act" (S. 2795), which authorizes a new title XV of the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of information, education, and research regarding the hazards of tobacco use. A summary of the bill notes that: (1) Subtitle A of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Health Education, Information Dissemination, Research and Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This document summarizes the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act of 1985 bill. A summary of the impact of the bill is included which notes the following: (1) programs to inform the public of the dangers of smokeless tobacco are to be established; (2) smokeless tobacco products will carry one of three warning statements; and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Drug Use, Federal Legislation, Health Education
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
Outlines U.S. District Court Judge Kovachevich's decision to return the Ray boys in Desoto County, Florida, to the classroom. These three children, Randy, Richard, and Robert, are hemophiliacs who have been exposed to the disease Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. They had been excluded from the classrooms and came to national attention as a…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The hearings before the Senate Committee on Human Resources regarding the Adolescent Health, Services, and Pregnancy Prevention and Care Act of 1978 are presented in full. The purpose of the bill is stated to be to establish a program for developing networks of community-based services to prevent initial and repeat pregnancies among adolescents,…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adolescents, Contraception, Federal Legislation
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2014
For the last several years, manufactured crises in Washington have hindered, rather than helped, economic growth and opportunity. Earlier this year, however, Democrats and Republicans came together to produce a 2014 budget that invests in key areas of innovation, education, and infrastructure--investments that will help grow the nation's economy,…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Government, Economic Progress, Fiscal Capacity
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. – 1993
This Congressional hearing discusses legislation that would require health warnings to be included in advertisements of alcoholic beverages. Opening statements are included from Senators Hollings, Burns, Danforth, Thurmond, and Simon, and from Representative Kennedy. Testimony is included from two panels of witnesses, whose members include: (1)…
Descriptors: Advertising, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholic Beverages, Consumer Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This document contains transcripts of testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the effects of illicit drug use and alcoholism on military personnel. Following statements by Senators Hawkins, Grassley, and Kerry, testimonies from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard are…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Health Education, Hearings
