Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 3.djvu/980

 92 STAT. 3612

Definitions.

PUBLIC LAW 95-627—NOV. 10, 1978 authorized by this section to provide, up to the authorization levels set forth in subsection (g) of this section, supplemental foods and nutrition education through any eligible local agency that applies for participation in the program. The program shall serve as an adjunct to good health care, during critical times of growth and development, to prevent the occurrence of health problems and improve the health status of these persons. " (b) As used in this section— "(1) 'Administrative costs' means costs that shall include, but not be limited to, costs for certification of eligibility of persons for participation in the program; centrifuges, measuring boards, spectrophotometers, and scales used for such certification; food delivery; monitoring; nutrition education; outreach; start-up costs; and general administration applicable to implementation of the program under this section, such as the cost of staff, warehouse facilities, transportation, insurance, developing and printing food instruments, and administration of State and local agency offices. "(2) 'Breastfeeding women' means women up to one year postpartum who are breastfeeding their infants. "(3) 'Children' means persons who have had their first birthday but have not yet attained their fifth birthday. "(4) 'Competent professional authority' means physicians, nutritionists, registered nurses, dietitians, or State or local medically trained health officials, or persons designated by physicians or State or local medically trained health officials, in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary, as being competent professionally to evaluate nutritional risk. "(5) 'Infants' means persons under one year of age. "(6) 'Local agency' means a public health or welfare agency or a private nonprofit health or welfare agency, which, directly or through an agency or physician with which it has contracted, provides health services. The term shall include an Indian tribe, band, or group recognized by the Department of the Interior, the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or an intertribal council or group that is an authorized representative of Indian tribes, bands, or groups recognized by the Department of the Interior. "(7) 'Nutrition education' means individual or group sessions and the provision of materials designed to improve health status that achieve positive change in dietary habits, and emphasize relationships between nutrition and health, all in keeping with the individual's personal, cultural, and socioeconomic preferences. "(8) 'Nutritional risk' means (A) detrimental or abnormal nutritional conditions detectable by biochemical or anthropometric measurements, (B) other documented nutritionally related medical conditions, (C) dietary deficiencies that impair or endanger health, or (D) conditions that predispose persons to inadequate nutritional patterns or nutritionally related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, alcoholism and drug addiction. "(9) 'Plan of operation and administration' means a document that describes the manner in which the State agency intends to implement and operate the program. " (10) 'Postpartum women' means women up to six months after termination of pregnancy.

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