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Partnership for Prevention has issued recommendations to make prevention an important part of national health reform. The recommendations build on Partnership’s “Principles for Prevention-Centered Health Reform,” which outline core principles for increasing the emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention in a reformed health system.

If implemented, the recommendations would significantly strengthen the role of disease prevention and health promotion in tackling the chronic diseases that are causing medical costs to spiral. The recommendations describe actions Congress can take to ensure that both clinical preventive services and community preventive services play an important role in a reformed health system and that policy makers develop and track system performance standards related to prevention.

Partnership’s recommendations were drawn from a series of policy papers commissioned from leading national public health authorities.

For more information about Partnership’s recommendations and health reform efforts, please contact Diane Canova at dcanova@prevent.org.

Resources:

Partnership Comments on the House Vote on H.R. 2, Repeal of the Heath Care Law (January 19, 2011)
Partnership Testifies before IOM Panel on Women’s Preventive Services (January 19, 2011)
Letter to HHS on Ensuring Confidential Care to Teens Receiveing USPSTF Preventive Services...and the response from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (October 5, 2010)
Partnership Urges Congress to Support passage of S. 3307, the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" (November 29, 2010)
Partnership tells HHS Interim Final Rules are Insufficient (September 17, 2010)
Partnership joins national health leaders in advocating EPA authority to support public health (September 28, 2010)
Congressional Briefings
Health Reform Text: Public Law 111-148, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” (March 22, 2010)
- Health Reform Summary and Implementation Timetable (March 22, 2010)
- Key PREVENTION Provisions Summary (April 13, 2010)
- Key PREVENTION Provisions Timeline (April 13, 2010)
Press Release: U.S. Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year with Five Basic Preventive Services (June 8, 2009)
Press Release: Health Reform Bill Should Include Clinical Preventive Services, Businesses and Health Advocates Urge Congressional Leaders (May 4, 2009)
Recommendations for Prevention and Wellness Funding under ARRA (April 1, 2009)
Model Legislative Language for Real Health Reform (March 23, 2009)
Congressional Briefing: Health Reform, Prevention, and the Debate over "Savings." What's so Bad about Living Longer? (February 4, 2009)
Policy recommendations for the Obama Administration (January 16, 2009)
Executive Summary: Real Health Reform Starts with Prevention (December 2008)
Full Report: Real Health Reform Starts with Prevention (December 2008)
Press Release: Partnership for Prevention Offers Health Reform Recommendations to Congress (December 11, 2008)
Policy Forum: Rhetoric to Reality--the Urgency of Health Reform (December 11, 2008)
Congressional Briefing: Averting a Health Care "Meltdown": Investing in Prevention (October 7, 2008)
Prevention policy papers (December 2008):
Partnership has commissioned several of the nation’s most prominent prevention policy experts to identify policy options Congress should consider to advance the nation’s prevention goals. The papers address a broad range of issues related both to clinical preventive services and to community preventive services
- The Economic Argument for Disease Prevention: Distinguishing Between Value and Savings (February 2009)
  - Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH (Professor of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University)
  - Corinne G. Husten, MD, MPH (Interim President, Partnership for Prevention)
  - Lawrence S. Lewin, MBA (Executive Consultant)
  - James S. Marks, MD, MPH (Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
  - Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)
  - Eduardo J. Sanchez, MD, MPH (Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas)
- Policy Options in Support of High-Value Preventive Care
  - Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD (Editor, Annals of Family Medicine; Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Sociology and Oncology, Case Western Reserve University)
  - Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH (Professor of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University)
- Designing a High-Quality Package of Preventive Services
  - Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH (Chief Scientist, RTI International; Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Georgetown University)
- Modernizing Medicare’s Prevention Policies
  - Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH (Chief Scientist, RTI International; Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Georgetown University)
- Medical Care Reform Requires Public Health Reform: Expanded Role for Public Health Agencies in Improving Health
  - Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)
  - Hugh H. Tilson, MD, DrPH (Professor of Public Health Leadership, University of North Carolina School of Public Health)
  - Jordan H. Richland, MPH, MPA (Principal Fellow, Partnership for Prevention)
- Children’s Health Reform Agenda: Opportunities for Impact: Preventing Tobacco Use & Childhood Obesity
  - Joseph W. Thompson, MD, MPH (Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement; Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas)
- Reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Services to Promote Prevention and the Health of Americans
  - Lawrence S. Lewin, MBA (Executive Consultant)
- Building Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Capacity: A Strategy for Congress and Government Agencies
  - Brian L. Cole, DrPH (Project Manager, Health Impact Assessment Group, UCLA School of Public Health)
  - Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine)
- Workplace Health Promotion: Policy Recommendations that Encourage Employers to Support Health Improvement Programs for Their Workers
  - Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD (Research Professor and Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University; Vice President, Consulting and Applied Research, Thomson Reuters)
  - Enid Chung Roemer, PhD (Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)
  - Rivka C. Liss-Levinson, BA (Program Associate, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)
  - Daniel K. Samoly, BS (Research Associate, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Emory University)
A Prevention Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress (2007)
Executive Summary: Principles for Prevention-Centered Health Reform (2007)
Principles for Prevention-Centered Health Reform (2007)
Nine High-Impact Actions Congress Can Take to Prevent Disease and Promote Health (2000)