Sec. 776. Expansion of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
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Congress finds as follows: The prevalence of asthma has increased since 1980 and affects more than 26,000,000 people in the United States. Significant disparities in asthma morbidity and mortality exist for both adults and children particularly for low-income and minority populations, particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans. African-American children are twice as likely to have asthma as White children. In 2016, almost 4,500,000 non-Hispanic African Americans reported having asthma.
African Americans with asthma are 3 times as likely to visit the emergency department and twice as likely to get hospitalized as White patients with asthma. Puerto Ricans are 3.4 times as likely to die from asthma compared with all other Hispanic or Latino groups. Overall Hispanic Americans are 30 percent more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than non-Hispanic Whites. The majority of adults with asthma are women. Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall convene a working group comprised of patient groups, nonprofit organizations, medical societies, and other relevant governmental and nongovernmental entities, including those that participate in the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, to develop a report to Congress that— catalogs, with respect to asthma prevention, management, and surveillance— the activities of the Federal Government, including identifying all Federal programs that carry out asthma-related activities, as well as assessment of the progress of the Federal Government and States, with respect to achieving the goals of Healthy People 2020; and the activities of other entities that participate in the program, including nonprofit organizations, patient advocacy groups, and medical societies; and makes recommendations for the future direction of asthma activities, in consultation with researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other member bodies of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program who are qualified to review and analyze data and evaluate interventions, including— a description of how the Federal Government may better coordinate and improve its response to asthma including identifying any barriers that may exist; a description of how the Federal Government may continue, expand, and improve its private-public partnerships with respect to asthma including identifying any barriers that may exist; identification of steps that may be taken to reduce the— morbidity, mortality, and overall prevalence of asthma; financial burden of asthma on society; burden of asthma on disproportionately affected areas, particularly those in medically underserved populations (as defined in section 330(b)(3) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254b(b)(3) )); and burden of asthma as a chronic disease; identification of programs and policies that have achieved the steps described in subparagraph (C), and steps that may be taken to expand such programs and policies to benefit larger populations; and recommendations for future research and interventions.
At the end of the 5-year period following the submission of the report under this section, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program shall evaluate the analyses and recommendations under such report and determine whether a new report to the Congress is necessary, and make appropriate recommendations to the Congress.
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Sec. 776
Expansion of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
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