Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Service Issues, 2008 (The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services). Twentieth Anniversary Report

摘要

The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (NACRHHS) is a 21-member citizens' panel of nationally recognized rural health and human service experts that provides recommendations on rural issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Committee, chaired by former South Carolina Governor David Beasley, was chartered in 1987 to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services on ways to address health and human service problems in rural America. The Committee's private and public-sector members reflect wide-ranging, firsthand experience with rural issues in medicine, nursing, administration, finance, law, research, business, public health, aging, welfare and human service issues. Each year, the Committee highlights key health and human service issues affecting rural communities. Background documents are prepared for the Committee by both staff and contractors to help inform members on the issues. The Committee then produces a report with recommendations on those issues for the Secretary by the end of the year. The Committee also sends letters to the Secretary after each meeting. The letters serve as a vehicle for the Committee to raise other issues with the Secretary separate and apart from the report process.