Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health and healthcare of racial and ethnic minority groups.

6/7/2007--Introduced.
Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to:
(1) develop an Internet Clearinghouse within the Office of Minority Health;
(2)</b> provide for programs of excellence in health professions education for underrepresented minorities; and
(3) support demonstration projects designed to improve the health and health care of racial and ethnic minority groups through improved access to health care, patient navigators, primary prevention activities, health promotion and disease prevention activities, and health literacy education and services.
Provides for grants to:
(1) promote positive health behaviors;
(2) implement culturally and linguistically appropriate, evidence-based, and community-driven sustainable strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic health and health care disparities;
(3) implement systems of primary care practices to eliminate disparities in the delivery of health care and improve the health care provided to all patients; and
(4) address long-standing unmet health needs in the Mississippi Delta. Requires the Secretary to establish the Health Action Zone Initiative demonstration program to support comprehensive state, tribal, or local initiatives to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Provides for research to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Requires the Secretary to ensure the collection of data from federally conducted or supported health programs by race, ethnicity, geographic location, socioeconomic position, primary language, and, when practicable, health literacy.
Sets forth duties for the Office of Minority Health. Requires the Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on Minority Health.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
• and 19 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN]
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
  • Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Robert Menendez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL]
  • Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
  • Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
  • Rep. Roger Wicker [R, MS-1]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1576

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 07, 2007

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• Jun 07, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jun 07, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7350)
• Introduced on Jun 07, 2007.

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June 15, 2007 Sen. Kennedy Introduces Minority Health Improvement, Health ...

Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, has introduced the Minority Health Improvement and Health Disparity Elimination Act (S. 1576), legislation that would "amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health and healthcare of ...

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