Memorandum of
Disapproval of the Bill Establishing the President's Council on Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention
I
am withholding my approval of S. 2057, which would establish a President's
Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Many
Federal health promotion and disease prevention activities are underway at the
Department of Health and Human Services, which has set an ambitious agenda of
health promotion and disease prevention goals to be achieved by 1990. I am
encouraged by the progress that is being made toward those objectives and the
plans which lie ahead. These plans include a national conference in late 1989
or early 1990, and many individual programs such as the Low Birth Weight
Prevention Initiative, the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, and
the Healthy Older People Public Education Program. Because our Federal
commitment to such activities must, and will, continue, a President's Council
on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is not necessary at this time.
Ronald
Reagan
The
White House,