The
ACPM Board of Regents adopts external
policies that guide ACPM's advocacy for
the specialty of preventive medicine and
advocacy for other public policy that
affects or concerns preventive medicine.
In December 2001, the Board adopted the
ACPM Policy Setting and Implementation
Process to steer its policy development
activities. The purpose of this document
is to:
- Provide
a clear, consistent process for
establishing ACPM policy concerning
public issues that will guide ACPM's
public health advocacy.
- Create
a process which assures that ACPM
policies address issues of priority to
ACPM members.
- Document
the criteria that will guide the
choice of public issues to which ACPM
resources will be devoted.
- Assure
implementation of APCM policies in a
manner that provides accountability to
the Board of Regents.
- Assure
that ACPM policies remain current and
relevant to contemporary issues.
- Establish
a mechanism to catalogue and retrieve
ACPM policies so that ACPM can readily
track what its policies are and how
proposed policies compare to existing
or past policy.
The
document which can be found by clicking
here, provides additional detail on
the definition, sources, criteria, and
types of ACPM policy as well as the
process for developing and maintaining
policy.
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