CDC's Office on Disability and Health focuses on the prevention
of secondary conditions and health promotion among persons with
disabilities. Emphasis is on scientific support for surveillance
of disabilities, cost-effectiveness of prevention strategies
focused on secondary conditions and health promotion activities,
and identifying risk and protective factors for secondary
conditions. This is implemented through providing funds to
states for public health activities addressing the needs of
persons with disabilities. The program emphasizes secondary
conditions which cross diagnostic categories, and focus on
broader disability areas. This is a relatively new approach to
prevention programs for CDC, which historically focused on the
primary prevention of disabling conditions. The program is
focusing on activities that will enhance the ability to measure
performance in this new area. This performance measure reflects
a first step toward building a data collection system that will
enable CDC to monitor trends rel