[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 249 (Friday, December 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76488-76489]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-31196]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-17378-30D]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary, Department of
Health and Human Services, has submitted an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for a new collection.
Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public on
this ICR during the review and approval period.
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before January 28,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or via
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance
staff, Information.CollectionClearance@hhs.gov or (202) 690-6162.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the Information Collection Request Title
and document identifier HHS-OS-17378-30D.
Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation of the National
Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities.
Abstract: The Office of Minority Health (OMH) in the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office of the Secretary (OS) is
requesting approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
new data collection activities for the Evaluation of the National
Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA). The NPA was
officially launched in April 2011 to mobilize a nationwide,
comprehensive, community-driven, and sustained approach to combating
health disparities and to move the nation toward achieving health
equity. Using an approach that vests those at the front line with the
responsibility of identifying and helping to shape core actions, new
approaches and new partnerships are being established to help close the
health gap in the United States. OMH proposes to conduct an evaluation
of the NPA. The evaluation's goal is to determine the extent to which
the NPA has contributed to the elimination of health disparities and
attainment of health equity in our nation. The evaluation will
accomplish this goal by (1) determining the degree to which a structure
(e.g., partnerships, programmatic reach, communications, committees) to
implement the NPA goals and strategies has been established; (2)
Collecting, analyzing, and summarizing baseline data for core
indicators of immediate and intermediate outcomes (e.g., changes in
policy, procedures, and practices to diversify workforce, promote
cultural competency, affect social determinants, build leadership, and
increase public support for ending health disparities and achieving
health equity); (3) Developing criteria for promising practices for
ending health disparities and identifying such practices; (4) Beginning
to monitor data on social determinants of health and health outcomes
using secondary sources.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The goal of the NPA
evaluation is to determine the extent to which the NPA has contributed
to the elimination of health disparities and the attainment of health
equity in our nation. The data to be collected will be used to inform
the various stakeholders involved in implementation of the NPA and the
National Stakeholder Strategy about progress, results, lessons learned,
and necessary mid-course adjustments. The evaluation team will
facilitate meetings to reflect and discuss the findings with OMH's
leadership, staff, and the implementation and communications teams that
support the NPA. The meetings will focus on the lessons learned and
their implications on strategy improvement and implementation.
Information from the evaluation will also be shared with Congress
through its inclusion in OMH's biennial report to Congress.
Likely Respondents
Agency
[cir] Representatives from federal agencies that participate on the
Federal Interagency Health Equity Team (FIHET)
[cir] Directors, coordinators, and officials from State Offices of
Minority Health and State Departments of Health
Organizational
[cir] Representatives from key NPA partner organizations
Individual
[cir] Chairs and members of Regional Health Equity Councils (RHECs)
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Burden per Total Burden
Form Name Respondents Responses per Response (in Hours
Respondent hours)
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FIHET member survey............................. 48 1 31.20 24.96
FIHET member interviews......................... 16 1 70.20 18.72
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RHEC member survey.............................. 350 1 40.20 234.50
RHEC co-chair interviews........................ 20 1 85.20 28.40
RHEC subcommittee chair group interviews........ 50 1 90.00 75.00
Survey of key NPA partner organizations......... 15 1 26.40 6.60
Survey of State Office of Minority Health Office 110 1 28.80 52.80
directors or coordinators and State Department
of Health officials............................
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Total....................................... 609 -- -- 440.98
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Darius Taylor,
Deputy Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-31196 Filed 12-27-12; 8:45 am]
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