Better Health for Our Children: A National Strategy. The Report of the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health to the United States Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Volume II: Analysis and Recommendations for Selected Federal Programs

摘要

In this volume of the report the Panel presents an examination of selected Federal programs affecting maternal and child health and proposes detailed recommendations for Federal legislative, regulatory, and other administrative improvements. These recommendations are aimed primarily at improving State and local program operations, though they involve action by Congress and the Federal executive agencies. The Panel had a wide range of Federal programs on which it could choose to concentrate its efforts. In making its selection, the Panel took into account three factors: the relevance of the program's mission to maternal and child health; the program's impact on the health of children or pregnant women; and, most important, the need and opportunity for programmatic change, either because the program is not operating at its full potential or because modifications in it would permit major advances toward the national health objectives the Panel had identified.