Health care, not sick care

Am J Health Promot. 2004 Sep-Oct;19(1):1-2. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-19.1.1.

Abstract

Senator Tom Harkin announces his introduction of the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) Act. This comprehensive legislation provides incentives to stimulate health promotion in workplace, school, and community settings, with specific programs for disabled people, food marketing, Medicare reimbursement for preventive services, and research on obesity, and creation of a National Health Promotion Trust Fund to pay for programs by penalties on tobacco companies that fail to cut smoking rates among children, ending federal subsidies for tobacco advertising, and closing other tax loopholes.

MeSH terms

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Chronic Disease
  • Cost of Illness
  • Delivery of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Health Promotion / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Humans
  • Politics
  • Preventive Health Services / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • United States