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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:
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Provide a
clear, consistent process for
establishing ACPM policy concerning
public issues that will guide ACPM's
public health advocacy.
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Create a
process which assures that ACPM policies
address issues of priority to ACPM
members.
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Document
the criteria that will guide the choice
of public issues to which ACPM resources
will be devoted.
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Assure
implementation of ACPM policies in a
manner that provides accountability to
the Board of Regents.
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Assure
that ACPM policies remain current and
relevant to contemporary issues.
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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
contained in
Appendix IV, 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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