Full Text of HR0382 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Public health issues are of paramount importance | 3 | | to the State and its units of local government; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Health disparities have a systemic and critical | 5 | | impact on morbidity and mortality rates in communities | 6 | | throughout the State; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The State Board of Health has adopted the 2011 | 8 | | State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP), and the State Health | 9 | | Improvement Plan Implementation Council will be appointed to | 10 | | guide the implementation of the 2011 SHIP; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The State is in need of a comprehensive review of | 12 | | its public health policymaking and regulatory framework in | 13 | | order to meet the needs of its diverse citizenry; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The State has the resources through its agencies, | 15 | | public and private universities, and community-based | 16 | | organizations to conduct a comprehensive review of its public | 17 | | health policies and policymaking infrastructure; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The Community Engagement and Research Core is a | 19 | | federally-funded component of the University of Illinois at | 20 | | Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science, engaged |
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| 1 | | in broad-based, action-oriented public health policy research | 2 | | and dissemination, and the University of Illinois at Chicago | 3 | | School of Public Health has been engaged by the Illinois | 4 | | Department of Public Health to assist the SHIP Implementation | 5 | | Council fulfills its mission; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Population health status and health services | 7 | | needs unique to Illinois should be reflected in the research | 8 | | and policy analysis work of researchers, planners, and policy | 9 | | analysts; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, A comprehensive review of the State's public | 11 | | health policies and
policymaking infrastructure is critical | 12 | | and necessary in order to fully benefit from federal health | 13 | | care reform, demonstrate additional efficiencies in the | 14 | | delivery of health care services to those most in need, and | 15 | | foster the relationship of public health to the larger | 16 | | community in terms of human, physical, fiscal, and program | 17 | | resources; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, State policymakers will benefit from a | 19 | | comprehensive and well-developed study of the State's public | 20 | | health policies and policymaking infrastructure; therefore, be | 21 | | it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 2 | | the State Health Improvement Plan Implementation Council is | 3 | | encouraged to prepare a comprehensive report to the General | 4 | | Assembly on the State's public health policies and its public | 5 | | health policymaking infrastructure that shall include an | 6 | | Illinois policy agenda; and be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That the State Health Improvement Plan | 8 | | Implementation Council is encouraged to work with the Community | 9 | | Engagement and Research Core housed at the University of | 10 | | Illinois at Chicago to develop an Illinois policy agenda; and | 11 | | be it further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That the State Health Improvement Plan | 13 | | Implementation Council shall prepare a report to be presented | 14 | | to members of the House Health Care and Health Disparities | 15 | | Committee on or before December 31, 2011; and be it further | 16 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the members of the State Health Improvement Plan | 18 | | Implementation Council and the directors of the Community | 19 | | Engagement and Research Core.
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