[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6903-6904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3308]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
OPHS Office on Women's Health; Women Living Long, Living Well
(WLLLW): Draft for Public Comment
AGENCY: DHHS/OS/Office of Public Health and Science, Office on Women's
Health (OWH).
ACTION: Call for comments on the draft WLLLW framework.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting
comments on Women Living Long, Living Well (WLLLW): Draft for Public
Comment, which proposes a framework for articulating, developing, and
implementing women's health research, services, and education
throughout the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the
year 2001. We invite you to comment, in writing, using the mail,
courier service, or the Internet.
DATES: The period for public comment opens at 9:00 a.m. EST on February
15, 1999, and closes at 5:00 p.m. EST on March 31, 1999.
AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT DOCUMENT: The full text of Women Living Longer,
Living Well: Draft for Public Comment is available on the National
Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) world wide web site, http://
www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/wlllw/index.htm. You also may call NWHIC at 1-
800-994-WOMAN (1-800-994-9662) to request a copy of the draft WLLLW
document.
ADDRESSES: The mailing address for written comments is: ATTENTION:
Theresa Brown, WLLLW Document; PHS Coordinating Committee on Women's
Health; Room 730-F, Hubert H. Humphrey Building; U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services; 200 Independence Avenue, SW; Washington, DC
20201. You may also submit comments electronically through the NWHIC
world wide web site, http://www.4woman.gov/wlllw.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: PHS Coordinating Committee on Women's
Health; Room 730-F, Hubert H. Humphrey Building; 200 Independence
Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20201; (202) 690-7650.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
To further promote and expand the understanding and knowledge of
women's health throughout the life span, and at the direction of the
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
the U.S. Public Health Service's Coordinating Committee on Women's
Health proposes a framework for articulating, developing, and
implementing women's health research, services, and education
throughout the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The theme
of this framework is ``Women Living Long, Living Well.'' The acronym of
the theme--WLLLW--suggests a metaphor: the willow. This family of over
100 varieties of trees represents the diversity of American women.
The goals of the WLLLW framework derive from the objectives
established in Healthy People 2000 and 2010. The Healthy People 2000
Objectives are the U.S. Public Health Service's health objectives for
the nation, which are currently being refined in Healthy People 2010.
The WLLLW framework seeks to support and enhance the efforts
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of DHHS in addressing the major causes of death and disability among
women in the United States of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic
backgrounds. In particular, this framework focuses on the behavioral
elements of risk while acknowledging the complexity introduced by
genetic or environmental risks, which individuals often cannot control.
Accomplishing the goals of WLLLW entails three key strategies:
Taking what we know and applying it better;
Generating new knowledge; and
Partnering with communities across the nation to improve
the health of women.
To refine and focus the Department's activities for 2001 and beyond,
and to ensure an effective response, consultation with various key
constituencies and stakeholders is critical. The WLLLW framework is
intended to serve as the basis for discussion and input from the
community. Feed-back on the following objectives will assist us in this
process to identify:
1. The three most significant means to reach and maintain the goal
of a long, healthy life for a woman and the barriers to reaching this
goal.
2. The critical prevention and intervention point in each stage of
life that promotes good health in subsequent stages.
3. The single most important activity the Department needs to
undertake, in partnership with communities, to address these issues.
4. A primary gap in women's health activities within the
Department, and the two or three specific strategies to address this
gap.
5. Innovative activities in which the Department should be
involved.
6. In what ways women's health should be organized and incorporated
into the structure of the Department.
Purpose of Public Comment
The WLLLW framework seeks to support and enhance the efforts of
DHHS in addressing the major causes of death and disability among women
in the United States of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic
backgrounds. To refine and focus the Department's activities for 2001
and beyond, and to ensure an effective response, consultation with
various key constituencies and stakeholders is critical. The WLLLW
framework is intended to serve as the basis for discussion and input
from the community.
We invite your general comments and feedback, and we are especially
interested in your comments on the six specific subject areas (above).
You may: (1) comment where indicated on the web site; or (2) mail us
you comments, in the format of your choice.
Dated: February 3, 1999.
Wanda K. Jones,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Women's Health).
[FR Doc. 99-3308 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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