[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8448-8449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3862]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.

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Proposed Project: Evaluation of the Implementation and Outcomes of the 
Maternal and Child Health Bureau's National Healthy Start Program--NEW

    HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau is planning to conduct a 
survey to collect information concerning Healthy Start, a community-
based initiative, to understand how Healthy Start services are expected 
to change local health care systems and service delivery and ultimately 
affect maternal and child health outcomes. The purpose of the survey is 
to collect consistent and comprehensive information across current 
grantees about their Healthy Start program, its organizational 
configuration, community context, and the extent to which the program 
components address service needs and contribute to grantees meeting 
their Healthy Start goals. A two-part survey consisting of a mail 
component followed by a telephone follow-up is proposed. The mail 
survey will focus on obtaining descriptive and quantitative data that 
is currently not available. The phone survey will be used to obtain 
grantee assessments of program achievements, factors that facilitated 
their achievements, and challenges that they faced.
    Data collection will cover information on the five service 
components (case management, health education, outreach, perinatal 
depression screening, and interconceptional care), and the four 
systems-building components (consortium, collaboration with Title V, 
local health systems action plan, and sustainability plan) that 
comprise the Healthy Start program. Data gathered from the survey will 
be used to provide HRSA the information necessary to assess the 
grantees' achievement of three core Healthy Start program goals: (1) 
Reduced racial and ethnic disparities in access to and utilization of 
health services; (2) improved local health care system; and (3) 
increased consumer or community voice in health care decisions. The 
survey will provide information that is currently unavailable from the 
service delivery and performance measure data. Based on the data 
collected in this survey, the National Evaluator will conduct cross-
site analyses.
    The estimated burden on respondents is as follows:

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                                                                  Number of        Hours per        Total hour
                         Respondents                             respondents       respondent         burden
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Grantees.....................................................              96                3              288
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Desk Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration, Human 
Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and Budget, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 13, 2004.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 04-3862 Filed 2-23-04; 8:45 am]
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