MISSION STATEMENT
This committee addresses issues pertaining to health care, health education, research, health employment, and the promotion of good health care policies with a view toward the specific implications for the African American community.
RESOURCES AND HELPFUL LINKS
Minority Health Offices
Many states have offices of minority health. They have various titles;
some are established as official minority health entities (such
as an office, commission, council, center, branch, project or other
unit) through either executive or legislative branch action. Other
states have designated minority health contacts, but no official
office or commission. NBCSL’s sister organization, the National
Conference of State Legislators, provides a list of such offices
and contacts for 43 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Virginia Transparency Resolution
House Joint Resolution No. 79
Requesting the Governor and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources
to implement a policy barring physicians or other health care practitioners
from prescribing an alternative brand of medication because of
financial incentives.
Agreed to by the Virginia House of Delegates, January 17, 2008
Agreed to by the Virginia Senate, March 4, 2008
To View Photos from NBCSL’s 2008 15th Annual Mental Health Conference click here.
To View Video from NBCSL’s 2008 15th Annual Mental Health Conference click here.
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HEALTH AND HUMAN
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