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| Document Summary | - Report Published - |
House Document No. 38
PUBLICATION YEAR 2001 | |
| Document Title |
| Access to Health Care for African Americans in Virginia |
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| Author |
| Department of Health; Office of Minority Health Care |
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| Enabling Authority |
| HJR 648 () |
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| Executive Summary |
Preliminary Report to the Governor, General Assembly and the Joint Commission
on Health Care
House Joint Resolution 648 (1999 Session)
Access to Health care for African Americans In Virginia
Authority for Study
House Joint Resolution (HJR) 648 of the 1999 Session of the General Assembly requested the Virginia Department of Health and other health related entities to co-sponsor a forum on African- American health care access issues. This legislation results from the recommendations of Senate Joint Resolution 355 (1997), a study of the health status of African-Americans living in the Commonwealth. The forum would address the following issues:
1.Providing care in public and private settings;
2.Enrollment in public and private health insurance plans;
3.Recruitment and retention of physicians;
4.Development of culturally competent health care services;
5.Managed Care and African-American access to health care;
6.Public and Private Partnerships to increase access to health care services;
7.Health issues for African-American families. |
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