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/* 38 USC 1602, regarding the objectives for health care results
for American Indians. Section 42 includes a goal for HIV. */
Section 1602. Declaration of health objectives
(a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of this
Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal
obligation to the American Indian people, to assure the highest
possible health status for Indians and urban Indians and to
provide all resources necessary to effect that policy.
(b) It is the intent of the Congress that the Nation meet the
following health status objectives with respect to Indians and
urban Indians by the year 2000:
(1) Reduce coronary heart disease deaths to a level of no
more than 100 per 100,000.
(2) Reduce the prevalence of overweight individuals to no
more than 30 percent.
(3) Reduce the prevalence of anemia to less than 10
percent among children aged 1 through 5.
(4) Reduce the level of cancer deaths to a rate of no more
than 130 per 100,000.
(5) Reduce the level of lung cancer deaths to a rate of no
more than 42 per 100,000.
(6) Reduce the level of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease related deaths to a rate of no more than 25 per 100,000.
(7) Reduce deaths among men caused by alcohol-related motor
vehicle crashes to no more than 44.8 per 100,000.
(8) Reduce cirrhosis deaths to no more than 13 per 100,000.
(9) Reduce drug-related deaths to no more than 3 per
100,000.
(10) Reduce pregnancies among girls aged 17 and younger to
no more than 50 per 1,000 adolescents.
(11) Reduce suicide among men to no more than 12.8 per
100,000.
(12) Reduce by 15 percent the incidence of injurious suicide
attempts among adolescents aged 14 through 17.
(13) Reduce to less than 10 percent the prevalence of mental
disorders among children and adolescents.
(14) Reduce the incidence of child abuse or neglect to less
than 25.2 per 1,000 children under age 18.
(15) Reduce physical abuse directed at women by male
partners to no more than 27 per 1,000 couples.
(16) Increase years of healthy life to at least 65 years.
(17) Reduce deaths caused by unintentional injuries to no
more than 66.1 per 100,000.
(18) Reduce deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes to no
more than 39.2 per 100,000.
(19) Among children aged 6 months through 5 years, reduce
the prevalence of blood lead levels exceeding 15ug/dl and reduce
to zero the prevalence of blood lead levels exceeding 25 ug/dl.
(20) Reduce dental caries (cavities) so that the proportion
of children with one or more caries (in permanent or primary
teeth) is no more than 45 percent among children aged 6 through 8
and no more than 60 percent among adolescents aged 15.
(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 aged 6 through 8 and no
more than 40 percent among adolescents aged 15.
(22) Reduce to no more than 20 percent the proportion of
individuals aged 65 and older who have lost all of their natural
teeth.
(23) Increase to at least 45 percent the proportion of
individuals aged 35 to 44 who have never lost a permanent tooth
due to dental caries or periodontal disease.
(24) Reduce destructive periodontal disease to a prevalence
of no more than 15 percent among individuals aged 35 to 44.
(25) Increase to at least 50 percent the proportion of
children who have received protective sealants on the occlusal
(chewing) surfaces of permanent molar teeth.
(26) Reduce the prevalence of gingivitis among individuals
aged 35 to 44 to no more than 50 percent.
(27) Reduce the infant mortality rate to no more than 8.5
per 1,000 live births.
(28) Reduce the fetal death rate (20 or more weeks of
gestation) to no more than 4 per 1,000 live births plus fetal
deaths.
(29) Reduce the maternal mortality rate to no more than 3.3
per 100,000 live births.
(30) Reduce the incidence of fetal alcohol syndrome to no
more than 2 per 1,000 live births.
(31) Reduce stroke deaths to no more than 20 per 100,000.
(32) Reverse the increase in end-stage renal disease
(requiring maintenance dialysis or transplantation) to attain an
incidence of no more than 13 per 100,000.
(33) Reduce breast cancer deaths to no more than 20.6 per
100,000 women.
(34) Reduce deaths from cancer of the uterine cervix to no
more than 1.3 per 100,000 women.
(35) Reduce colorectal cancer deaths to no more than 13.2
per 100,000.
(36) Reduce to no more than 11 percent the proportion of
individuals who experience a limitation in major activity due to
chronic conditions.
(37) Reduce significant hearing impairment to a prevalence
of no more than 82 per 1,000.
(38) Reduce significant visual impairment to a prevalence of
no more than 30 per 1,000.
(39) Reduce diabetes-related deaths to no more than 48 per
100,000.
(40) Reduce diabetes to an incidence of no more than 2.5 per
1,000 and a prevalence of no more than 62 per 1,000.
(41) Reduce the most severe complications of diabetes as
follows:
(A) End-stage renal disease, 1.9 per 1,000.
(B) Blindness, 1.4 per 1,000.
(C) Lower extremity amputation, 4.9 per 1,000.
(D) Perinatal mortality, 2 percent.
(E) Major congenital malformations, 4 percent.
(42) Confine annual incidence of diagnosed AIDS cases to no
more than 1,000 cases.
(43) Confine the prevalence of HIV infection to no more than
100 per 100,000.
(44) Reduce gonorrhea to an incidence of no more than 225
cases per 100,000.
(45) Reduce chlamydia trachomatis infections, as measured by
a decrease in the incidence of nongonococcal urethritis to no
more than 170 cases per 100,000.
(46) Reduce primary and secondary syphilis to an incidence
of no more than 10 cases per 100,000.
(47) Reduce the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease, as
measured by a reduction in hospitalization for pelvic
inflammatory disease to no more than 250 per 100,000 women aged
15 through 44.
(48) Reduce viral hepatitis B infection to no more than 40
per 100,000 cases.
(49) Reduce indigenous cases of vaccine-preventable diseases
as follows:
(A) Diphtheria among individuals aged 25 and younger,
0.
(B) Tetanus among individuals aged 25 and younger, 0.
(C) Polio (wild-type virus), 0.
(D) Measles, 0.
(E) Rubella, 0.
(F) Congenital Rubella Syndrome, 0.
(G) Mumps, 500.
(H) Pertussis, 1,000.
(50) Reduce epidemic-related pneumonia and influenza deaths
among individuals aged 65 and older to no more than 7.3 per
100,000.
(51) Reduce the number of new carriers of viral hepatitis B
among Alaska Natives to no more than 1 case.
(52) Reduce tuberculosis to an incidence of no more than 5
cases per 100,000.
(53) Reduce bacterial meningitis to no more than 8 cases per
100,000.
(54) Reduce infectious diarrhea by at least 25 percent among
children.
(55) Reduce acute middle ear infections among children aged
4 and younger, as measured by days of restricted activity or
school absenteeism, to no more than 105 days per 100 children.
(56) Reduce cigarette smoking to a prevalence of no more
than 20 percent.
(57) Reduce smokeless tobacco use by youth to a prevalence
of no more than 10 percent.
(58) Increase to at least 65 percent the proportion of
parents and caregivers who use feeding practices that prevent
baby bottle tooth decay.
(59) Increase to at least 75 percent the proportion of
mothers who breast feed their babies in the early postpartum
period, and to at least 50 percent the proportion who continue
breast feeding until their babies are 5 to 6 months old.
(60) Increase to at least 90 percent the proportion of
pregnant women who receive prenatal care in the first trimester
of pregnancy.
(61) Increase to at least 70 percent the proportion of
individuals who have received, as a minimum within the
appropriate interval, all of the screening and immunization
services and at least one of the counseling services appropriate
for their age and gender as recommended by the United States
Preventive Services Task Force.
(c) It is the intent of the Congress that the Nation increase the
proportion of all degrees in the health professions and allied
and associated health profession fields awarded to Indians to 0.6
percent.
(d) The Secretary shall submit to the President, for inclusion in
each report required to be transmitted to the Congress under
section 801, a report on the progress made in each area of the
Service toward meeting each of the objectives described in
subsection (b).
(Sept. 30, 1976, P. L. 94-437, 3, 90 Stat. 1401.)
(As amended Oct. 29, 1992, P. L. 102-573, 3(b), 106 Stat. 4526.)