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/* The health targets for native Hawaiians including a goal for
AIDS reduction follows. */
(a) Congress. The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy
of the United States in fulfillment of its special
responsibilities and legal obligations to the indigenous people
of Hawaii resulting from the unique and historical relationship
between the United States and the Government of the indigenous
people of Hawaii--
(1) to raise the health status of Native Hawaiians to the
highest possible health level; and
(2) to provide existing Native Hawaiian health care programs
with all resources necessary to effectuate this policy.
(b) Intent of Congress. It is the intent of the Congress that the
Nation meet the following health objectives with respect to
Native Hawaiians by the year 2000:
(1) Reduce coronary heart disease deaths to no more than 100
per 100,000.
(2) Reduce stroke deaths to no more than 20 per 100,000.
(3) Increase control of high blood pressure to at least 50
percent of people with high blood pressure.
(4) Reduce blood cholesterol to an average of no more than
200 mg/dl.
(5) Slow the rise in lung cancer deaths to achieve a rate of
no more than 42 per 100,000.
(6) Reduce breast cancer deaths to no more than 20.6 per
100,000 women.
(7) Increase Pap tests every 1 to 3 years to at least 85
percent of women age 18 and older.
(8) Increase fecal occult blood testing every 1 to 2 years
to at least 50 percent of people age 50 and older.
(9) Reduce diabetes-related deaths to no more than 34 per
100,000.
(10) Reduce the most severe complications of diabetes as
follows:
(A) end-stage renal disease to no more than 1.4 in
1,000;
(B) blindness to no more than 1.4 in 1,000;
(C) lower extremity amputation to no more than 4.9 in
1,000;
(D) perinatal mortality to nor more than 2 percent; and
(E) major congenital malformations to no more than 4
percent.
(11) Reduce infant mortality to no more than 7 deaths per
1,000 live births.
(12) Reduce low birth weight to no more than 5 percent of
live births.
(13) Increase first trimester prenatal care to at least 90
percent of live births.
(14) Reduce teenage pregnancies to no more than 50 per 1,000
girls age 17 and younger.
(15) Reduce unintended pregnancies to no more than 30
percent of pregnancies.
(16) Increase to at least 60 percent the proportion of
primary care providers who provide age-appropriate preconception
care and counseling.
(17) Increase years of healthy life to at least 65 years.
(18) Eliminate financial barriers to clinical preventive
services.
(19) Increase childhood immunization levels to at least 90
percent of 2-year-olds.
(20) Reduce the prevalence of dental caries to no more than
35 percent of children by age 8.
(21) Reduce untreated dental caries so that the proportion
of children with untreated caries (in permanent or primary teeth)
is no more than 20 percent among children age 6 through 8 and no
more than 15 percent among adolescents age 15.
(22) Reduce edentulism to no more than 20 percent in people
age 65 and older.
(23) Increase moderate daily physical activity to at least
30 percent of the population.
(24) Reduce sedentary lifestyles to no more than 15 percent
of the population.
(25) Reduce overweight to a prevalence of no more than 20
percent of the population.
(26) Reduce dietary fat intake to an average of 30 percent
of calories or less.
(27) Increase to at least 75 percent the proportion of
primary care providers who provide nutrition assessment and
counseling or referral to qualified nutritionists or dieticians.
(28) Reduce cigarette smoking prevalence to no more than 15
percent of adults.
(29) Reduce initiation of smoking to no more than 15 percent
by age 20.
(30) Reduce alcohol-related motor vehicle crash deaths to no
more than 8.5 per 100,000 adjusted for age.
(31) Reduce alcohol use by school children age 12 to 17 to
less than 13 percent.
(32) Reduce marijuana use by youth age 18 to 25 to less than
8 percent.
(33) Reduce cocaine use by youth aged 18 to 25 to less than
3 percent.
/* The goal for HIV */
(34) Confine HIV infection to no more than 800 per 100,000.
(35) Reduce gonorrhea infections to no more than 225 per
100,000.
(36) Reduce syphilis infections to no more that 10 per
100,000.
(37) Reduce significant hearing impairment to a prevalance
of no more than 82 per 1,000.
(38) Reduce acute middle ear infections among children age 4
and younger, as measured by days of restricted activity or school
absenteeism, to no more than 105 days per 100 children.
(39) Reduce indigenous cases of vaccine-preventable diseases
as follows:
(A) Diphtheria among individuals age 25 and younger to
0;
(B) Tetanus among individuals age 25 and younger to 0;
(C) Polio (wild-type virus) to 0;
(D) Measles to 0;
(E) Rubella to 0;
(F) Congenital Rubella Syndrome to 0;
(G) Mumps to 500; and
(H) Pertussis to 1,000; and
(40) Reduce significant visual impairment to a prevalence of
no more than 30 per 1,000.
(c) Report. The Secretary shall submit to the President, for
inclusion in each report required to be transmitted to the
Congress under section 11 [42 USC 11710], a report on the
progress made in each area toward meeting each of the objectives
described in subsection (b).
(Oct. 31, 1988, P. L. 100-579, 3, 102 Stat. 2916, and Nov. 18,
1988, P. L. 100-690, Title II, Subtitle D, 2303, 102 Stat. 4223;
Oct. 6, 1992, P. L. 102-396, Title IX, 9168, 106 Stat. 1948,
enacting S. 2681, as passed by the Senate on Sept. 12, 1992.)