Prepare:
Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health policy.
Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the background and development of this health policy.
Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief background for the problem or issue being addressed. Explain whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide examples.
Write a short response, to these two posts below, NO MORE than 250 words with 2 APA references .
The following 2 students posted the following regarding this assignment:
Ester wrote:
The maternal CARE Act or the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies Act requires the Department of Health and Human services to pay for training that addresses implicit bias in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. The HHS must also provide grants to up to 10 states for pregnancy medical-home programs in order to decrease negative maternal health outcomes and reduce racial disparities. These programs must prioritize uninsured individuals and Medicaid patients (Congress.gov, n.d.). Although our nation has taken strides to reduce racial disparities, black pregnant and birthing women are still 3 times more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than white women (The Commonwealth Fund, 2021). As well as maternal mortality, infant mortality in the United States is high. Two-thirds of infant deaths occur in premature infants (Burris et al., 2019). This is a cause that is close to my heart as my youngest child was born at 31 weeks and spent a number of weeks in the NICU. Reflecting racial disparities, preterm birth rate is 52% higher for black women than white women (Burris et al., 2019). Preterm births are many times linked to inadequate or lack of prenatal care. This bill seeks to reduce racial disparities so that all pregnant and birthing women get access to the health care they need.
Solomon wrote this:
According to Regitz-Zagrosek (2018), Sex and gender that is being a male or a female has an influence on disease development and also how severe the disease can be. The writer stated that women stand many disadvantages of developing risk factors of cardiovascular disease compared to men and also among women, young women also have many advantages of not contracting this cardiovascular disease compared to older women. At higher age, at times men develop cardiovascular disease risk factors as older women but more rampant in older women. The writer also pointed out that Cardiovascular prevention goals are all the time less achieved in women than men and the risk of women developing risk factors of acute coronary syndrome before the age of 55 as a result of smoking is twice of that of men and all these and others show that women are susceptible to cardiovascular diseases than men ( Regitz-Zagrosek, 2018).
Mosca, Barrett-Connor, Wenger (2011), stated that over the past year, policymakers, scientists and health workers, and the general public made effort to make people understand the differences in sex and gender regarding cardiovascular disease and for the general public to understand the importance of paying attention to heart disease in women. In 1997, it was recorded that the leading cause of death among women is a cardiovascular disease but in the year 2009 when attention was paid to these health issues among women, the death rate has drastically reduced and all these are evidence showing that cardiovascular disease has been a blow to women and for that matter, extra measures must be taken to avoid these incidents or health issues among women (Mosca et al, 2011)
Based on the above evidence and others that Representative Herrera Beutler and Jaime proposed a policy, “H.Res.88 H.Res.88, which is “Recognizing women’s cardiovascular health as a critical health care priority that affects every State and contributes to increased health care costs, and promoting the necessity of increased awareness of and education on the symptoms for heart disease among women, gender-specific cardiovascular disease research, and policy action to alleviate the risks of heart disease among women”. This policy was introduced on Introduced 02/02/2021, it is in the introduction stage and the latest action was on 02/03/2021. Because this policy was very important, it has 20 Cosponsors, the support was huge because is very touching health issues on mankind especially women. And we all know the importance of women in our lives, building our country, childbirth and child upbringing and for this reason,s and others this policy needs much support to be enacted soon to safe life (Congress.gov, n.d.)
