Public Health Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Public Health Act - Title I: Health Service Research and Development - Health Services Research and Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake and support research, development, and demonstrations respecting health services. Directs the Secretary to give appropriate emphasis to research, development and demonstrations respecting: (1) the determinants of an individual's health; (2) the impact of the environment on individual health and on health care; and (3) the accessibility, acceptability, organization, distribution, utilization, quality, and financing of systems for the delivery of health care. Establishes, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a National Center for Health Services Research and Development. Directs the Secretary to act through such Center in undertaking and supporting the research and demonstration projects under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to assist, by grants or contracts, private nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of planning and establishing new centers, and operating existing centers and new centers, for multi-disciplinary health services research, development, demonstrations, and evalua…