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§ 280g–10. Community Preventive Services Task Force
(a) Establishment and purpose
(b) Duties
The duties of the Task Force shall include—
(1) the development of additional topic areas for new recommendations and interventions related to those topic areas, including those related to specific populations and age groups, as well as the social, economic and physical environments that can have broad effects on the health and disease of populations and health disparities among sub-populations and age groups;
(2) at least once during every 5-year period, review 1
1 So in original. Probably should be followed by “of”.
interventions and update 1 recommendations related to existing topic areas, including new or improved techniques to assess the health effects of interventions, including health impact assessment and population health modeling;(3) improved integration with Federal Government health objectives and related target setting for health improvement;
(4) the enhanced dissemination of recommendations;
(5) the provision of technical assistance to those health care professionals, agencies, and organizations that request help in implementing the Guide recommendations; and
(6) providing yearly reports to Congress and related agencies identifying gaps in research and recommending priority areas that deserve further examination, including areas related to populations and age groups not adequately addressed by current recommendations.
(c) Role of agency
(d) Coordination with Preventive Services Task Force
(e) Operation
(f) Authorization of appropriations
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 399U, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title IV, § 4003(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 543; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(230), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4331.)