Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Evidence-Informed Health Promotion Act”.
Evidence-Informed Health Promotion Act
A BILL
To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant Secretary for Aging to make available to States, area agencies on aging, and service providers information and technical assistance to support the provision of evidence-informed practices that are likely to improve health outcomes, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Evidence-informed health promotion
Functions of Assistant Secretary— Section 202 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3012) is amended—
in subsection (a)(28)—
by inserting “or, as applicable and appropriate, evidence-informed practices that are likely to improve health outcomes,” after “services,”; and
by inserting “and practices” after “such services”; and
in subsection (b)(9)(B)—
by inserting “or, as applicable and appropriate, evidence-informed practices that are likely to improve health outcomes,” after “services programs,”; and
by inserting “and practices” after “such services”.
Disease prevention and health promotion services— Section 361(a) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3030m(a)) is amended—
in the first sentence, by inserting “, or, as applicable and appropriate, evidence-informed practices that are likely to improve health outcomes,” before “and information”; and
in the second sentence, by inserting “, and, as applicable and appropriate, evidence-informed practices that are likely to improve health outcomes,” before “in different settings”.
Falls prevention and chronic disease self-Management education— Section 411(a) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3032(a)) is amended—
in paragraph (15), by inserting “or evidence-informed” after “evidence based”; and
in paragraph (16), by inserting “or evidence-informed” after “evidence based”.