California Health and Safety Code

§ 127900

HSC § 127900 Effective Jul 27, 2021Div. 107 · Part 3 · Ch. 2 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares that evidence exists to support the development of health promotion and health-risk reduction programs as an effective method of constraining the annual inflation rate for expenditures in the health industry. It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature that a health manpower education program be developed to demonstrate the health promotion and health-risk reduction concept at educational institutions, with special emphasis on health manpower development in urban areas having a disproportionate share of disadvantaged and indigent persons.

(b)The department shall establish a contract program for funding allied health manpower training projects related to health promotion and health-risk reduction. The contract program shall provide funds to eligible institutions, as determined by the department, for all of the following purposes:

(1)Teaching existing and future primary care providers about health-risk reduction through the institutions’ basic curricula.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, Sec. 118. (AB 133) Effective July 27, 2021.