National Digestive Diseases Prevention, Cure, and Control Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1650 (and All Identical Bills) ... May 8, 1979 |
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activities ACUTE DIARRHEA ALMY American Gastroenterological Association area of digestive Arthritis authorizing legislation AWARE bill Blood Pressure Education CANCER Carter Chairman CHOLECYSTITIS chronic Commission on Digestive committee Congress coordination cost CROHN'S DISEASE Cure and Control CYSTIC FIBROSIS DANNEMEYER develop diagnosis diges Digestive Diseases Advisory Digestive Diseases Education Digestive Diseases Prevention Director Diseases Advisory Board disorders effective efforts ending September 30 endoscopy field of digestive fiscal funds gallstones Gastrointestinal Endoscopy HIATAL HERNIA High Blood Pressure hypertension ILEITIS INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES Institute of Arthritis Institutes of Health IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME JACOBSON liver long-range plan medical schools medicine Metabolism million national clearinghouse National Commission National Digestive Diseases National High Blood National Institute NIAMDD nutrition organization patients with digestive percent physicians Pressure Education Program PREYER programs in digestive recommendations September 30 subcommittee teaching testimony Thank Thiel Tim Lee Carter tion TIVE COLITIS tive diseases ulcer WAXMAN WHEDON
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Page 18 - At the next level up is a kind of technology best termed "halfway" technology. This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about. It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death.
Page 12 - Measured in terms of morbidity, mortality, and cost, they constitute the third largest component of the total economic burden of illness in the United States, being outranked only by circulatory diseases and by the combined category of accidents, poisonings, and violence. Digestive diseases collectively represent: • 10 percent of the total economic burden of illness in the United States, as defined by the National Center for Health Statistics. • The primary reason for major surgery. • The leading...
Page 12 - ERS, FINDINGS OF THE COMMISSION While digestive diseases vary in severity from brief, self-limited illnesses to chronic, disabling, and some universally fatal conditions, their total social and economic impact is enormous. Measured in terms of morbidity, mortality, and cost, they constitute the third largest component of the total economic burden of illness in the United States, being outranked only by circulatory diseases and by the combined category of accidents, poisonings, and violence.
Page 20 - I look forward to working with you, Mr. Chairman, and the other Members of the...
Page 55 - DR. G. DONALD WHEDON, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS, METABOLISM, AND DIGESTIVE DISEASES, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ; • AND DALE SOPPER, LEGISLATIVE OFFICER, OFFICE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR LEGISLATION (HEALTH) Dr.
Page 27 - Control and other agencies and bureaus within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; other federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration; and a variety of state and local government agencies, voluntary health organizations and private industry.
Page 28 - I thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the members of the Committee for allowing me to present our program.
Page 49 - The situation is similar with respect to the proposed appropriation for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute, the...
Page 24 - Today the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee begins a series of hearings on the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act which was adopted in 1974.