the development of additional topic areas for new recommendations and interventions related to those topic areas, including those related to specific populations and age groups, as well as the social, economic and physical environments that can have broad effects on the health and disease of populations and health disparities among sub-populations and age groups;

at least once during every 5-year period, review 1 interventions and update 1 recommendations related to existing topic areas, including new or improved techniques to assess the health effects of interventions, including health impact assessment and population health modeling;

improved integration with Federal Government health objectives and related target setting for health improvement;

the enhanced dissemination of recommendations;

the provision of technical assistance to those health care professionals, agencies, and organizations that request help in implementing the Guide recommendations; and

providing yearly reports to Congress and related agencies identifying gaps in research and recommending priority areas that deserve further examination, including areas related to populations and age groups not adequately addressed by current recommendations.