Title: APHA Archiving Old Policies

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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As you know, APHA has more than 1,000 public policies on the books dating back to 1948. At last year's Annual Meeting, the Governing Council approved a policy archiving trial project in order to identify out-of-date policies, policy gaps and policy overlaps. Policy review groups (selected from APHA's membership and grouped by topic) reviewed a list of policies compiled by staff on a number of topics - injury control, abortion, global infectious diseases, aging and the elderly and public health infrastructure. The final recommendations by the review groups were composed into a "consent calendar" for consideration by the Governing Council at this year's Annual Meeting. Only those policies recommended by the review groups for archiving were selected for the consent calendar. The proposed archiving consent calendar is now available on APHA's member's only Web site. You can view the proposed consent calendar as well as the background for the archiving pilot project at:
<www.apha.org/private/policies/2003_proposed_archiving.htm>.
Individual policies can be viewed at:
<http://www.apha.org/legislative/policy>.

If you would like to comment on the proposed consent calendar, we would recommend that you send any to Charlie Branas, <cbranas@cceb.med.upenn.edu>, and Linda Degutis,<Linda.Degutis@yale.edu>, our Policy Committee chairs.


- Don Hoppert, APHA