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 9 0 STAT. 2306

PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - 4 8 4 ^ 0 C T. 12, 1976

means any public or private entity which collects, compiles, or analyzes health professions d a t a under an arrangement with the Secretary for purposes of this section. Report to " (c) The Secretary shall submit annually to the Committee on I n t e r congressional state and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives and to committees. the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a report on— " (1) the statistics and other information developed pursuant to subsection (a), and " (2) the activities conducted under this subpart, including an evaluation of such activities. Legislative Such report shall contain such recommendations for legislation as the recommendations. Secretary determines are needed to improve the programs authorized under this subpart. The Office of Management and Budget may review such report before its submission to such Committees, but the Office may not revise the report or delay its submission beyond the date prescribed for its submission and may submit to such Committees its comments respecting such report. The first report under this subsection shall be submitted not later than December 1, 1978. "Public and " (d) For purposes of this section, the term 'public and community community health personnel' means individuals who are engaged in— health " (1) the planning, development, monitoring, or management of personnel." health care or health care institutions, organizations, or systems, " (2) research on health care development and the collection and analysis of health statistics, data on the health of population groups, and any other health data, " (3) the development and improvement of individual and community knowledge of health (including environmental health and preventive medicine) and the health care system, or " (4) the planning and development of a healthful environment and control of environmental health hazards. "SUBPART II — A I J J E D H E A L T H PERSONNEL "DEFINITIONS

42 USC 295h-4.

" SEC. 795. For purposes of this subpart: " (1) The term 'allied health personnel' means individuals with t r a i n i n g and responsibilities for (A) supporting, complementing, or supplementing the professional functions of physicians, dentists, and other health professionals in the delivery of health care to patients, or (B) assisting environmental engineers and other personnel in environmental health control and preventive medicine activities. " (2) The term 'training center for allied health professions' means a junior college, college, or university— " (A) which provides, or can provide, programs of education leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree (or to the equivalent of either) or to a higher degree in medical technology, optometric technology, dental hygiene, or in any of such other of the allied health professions curricula as are specified by regulation, or which, if in a junior college, provides a program (i) leading to an associate or an equivalent degree, (ii) of education in optometric technology, dental hygiene, or such other curricula as are specified by regulation, and (iii) acceptable for full credit toward a baccalaureate or equivalent degree in the allied health professions or designed

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