[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 171 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 171

 Supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Awareness 
 Month in April 2011 in order to bring attention to the severe health 
disparities faced by minority populations such as American Indians and 
   Alaska Natives, Asians, Blacks or African-Americans, Hispanics or 
       Latinos, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2011

 Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Towns, Mr. 
Meeks, Mr. Clarke of Michigan, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
 Connolly of Virginia, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Honda, Ms. Norton, Ms. Lee of 
 California, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Moore, 
Mr. Serrano, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Hastings 
of Florida, Mr. Pastor of Arizona, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Al Green of 
 Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Awareness 
 Month in April 2011 in order to bring attention to the severe health 
disparities faced by minority populations such as American Indians and 
   Alaska Natives, Asians, Blacks or African-Americans, Hispanics or 
       Latinos, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

Whereas many of these populations experience a disproportionate lack of access 
        to healthcare, exposure to environmental hazards, mortality, morbidity, 
        behavioral risk factors, disability status, and unique social 
        determinants of health at the national level;
Whereas the expected increase in these populations in the near future will 
        impact the entire United States health system, making their collective 
        improved health even more critical to the entire Nation;
Whereas the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has identified six 
        main categories in which racial and ethnic minorities experience the 
        most disparate access and health outcomes, including infant mortality, 
        cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV/
        AIDS infection, and immunizations;
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 
        African-American, American Indian, and Puerto Rican infants have higher 
        death rates than White infants;
Whereas African-American women are more than twice as likely to die of cervical 
        cancer than White women and are more likely to die of breast cancer than 
        women of any other racial or ethnic group;
Whereas the rate of death from coronary heart disease was 20 percent higher 
        among African-American adults than among White adults older than 44, and 
        the death rate from stroke was 48 percent higher in 2006;
Whereas in 2008, African-American adults were 6 times more likely to have 
        medically diagnosed diabetes compared with non-Hispanic Whites, 
        Hispanics were 1.5 times more likely, and Asians were 1.2 times more 
        likely;
Whereas African-Americans and Hispanics represented only 27 percent of the 
        United States population in 2008, but accounted for an estimated 68 
        percent of adult AIDS diagnoses and 71 percent of estimated pediatric 
        AIDS diagnoses in that year; and
Whereas in 2008, Hispanics and African-Americans age 65 and older were less 
        likely than non-Hispanic Whites to report having received influenza and 
        pneumococcal vaccines: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives supports the goals and 
ideals of National Minority Health Awareness Month in order to bring 
attention to the severe health disparities faced by minority 
populations such as American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asians, Blacks 
or African-Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and Native Hawaiians and 
other Pacific Islanders.
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