If anyone is still reading this...
Should we be surprised:
This initiative was stimulated by President Clinton's commitment to eliminate disparities in health for racial and ethnic minority populations by 2010.
http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D2C8F49F-400E-467E-ACF2-6255D6E9FDEA/0/Nadrc0900.pdf
DHHS OFFICE OF HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
AND THE HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010 INITIATIVE
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Dr. Randy Wykoff, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, DHHS, presented an overview of Healthy People 2010, including the Leading Health Indicators, and possible ways to maximize this initiative. Healthy People 2010 is coordinated by the DHHS Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Dr. Wykoff noted that Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive set of national 10-year objectives that are developed through a collaborative process involving both the public and private sectors. All the objectives are specific and measurable over time based on data. The document, published and distributed by the Federal Government, also is a statistical description of the health status of Americans, including racial and ethnic disparities; a textbook on current public health priorities; and an important part of the national strategic plan for improving health. Healthy People 2010 is the third iteration of an effort that began in 1979 with publication of the Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Ever larger and more complex, this iteration has two overarching goals, 28 focus areas, 467 objectives, and 10 leading health indicators.
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Grant Review
The Council considered 327 applications requesting $70,492,343 in total costs. The Council recommended
238 applications for a total cost of $31,211,337 (see Attachment II).
This is cute.
From the PDF in this link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts?page=21#21
UMDNJ is a publicly interest member of this initiative.
Members:
r. Hillary Brode, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)- New Jersey Dental School, Newark
Now why wasn't I surprised- just cruising through the information, I could see a Clinton footprint all over it.
There have been visible efforts in school lunchrooms over the last couple years to improve childrens' health and eating habits. Removing soda machines, ice cream, chips, etc. Banners up, EAT SMART, etc. And, in the last couple of years a strange form was sent home for health records at the beginning of the year... I wasn't very comfortable with it. I'm kind of funny about giving too much information/abdicating my responsibilies as a parent to the 'state'. (I once was the lone delegate who made a bit of a stink at a state PTA convention over a resolution about ADD/ADHD diagnosing and medicating advise being done by teachers.) Of course, I was told the health form was just a good way for schools to help keep track of yadayadayada. I filled out the name and address and that was it. I don't remember if it was a state or federal form.
My very first thought on this was after wondering about if this was part of Hillary's health care program...was premptive measures. There were reports not long ago about a couple schools somewhere in the world where quite a few kids became sick from some native veggie and I wondered then if there was anything in the pipeline to prevent this kind of think from being replicated with an evil intent.
Of course there are mad cow disease issues as well.
I haven't read the whole of your post, it's pretty expansive, and will take awhile to 'digest' LOL! But it certainly is interesting! And to think folks worry about human chips...
Are there many FReeperfarmers?