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Administration Sets Aggressive Public Health Goals With Healthy People 2020 Report
WASHINGTON, DC – December 2, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this morning released its Healthy People 2020 report, which spells out nearly 600 public health goals for the next decade. The goals include several areas of particular concern to people with cancer and their families: reducing overall deaths from cancer, curbing tobacco use by youth and adults, improving access to quality health care, decreasing obesity rates and improving nutrition and physical activity for all populations. The report also focuses on other issues important ...
Report Shows Majority of States Falling Short on Policies to Fight and Prevent Cancer
... and fight cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). As the changing health care landscape presents new opportunities to prevent a disease that kills 1,600 people a day in this country, many state legislatures are failing to enact laws and policies that could not only generate new revenue and long-term health savings, but also save lives. How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and ...
New Report Shows State Lawmakers Can Do More to Prevent, Reduce Cancer
... report, an annual snapshot of key state policies, shows many states are falling behind in their efforts to prevent cancer and promote access to health coverage. The report grades states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer: increased access to health care coverage through Medicaid, funding for cancer screening programs, passage of quality of life (palliative care) policies, implementation of ...
Report Shows Majority of States Falling Short on Policies to Fight and Prevent Cancer in 2013
... and fight cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). As the changing health care landscape presents new opportunities to prevent a disease that kills 1,500 people a day in this country, many state legislatures are missing opportunities to enact laws and policies that could not only generate new revenue and long-term health savings, but also save lives. The report, How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence ...
600 Advocates Meet with Lawmakers at Annual ACS CAN Lobby Day
... treatment. Volunteers asked their representatives to restore this critical funding. Improve patientsÈ quality of life through palliative care . Palliative care, an extra layer of support for patients with serious chronic diseases, ensures that health care providers are treating the disease while also ensuring the best possible quality of life for the patient. Advocates asked their ...
Report Finds Majority of States Falling Short on Laws and Policies that Prevent Cancer and Save Lives
... policies. “State legislators should support laws and policies that help people fight cancer by emphasizing disease prevention, making health care affordable and accessible and focusing on quality of life,” said John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of ACS CAN. “Missed opportunities to pass laws that fight and prevent cancer not only leave new state revenue and health savings on the table, but deny the potential for saving countless lives from a disease that still kills 1,500 people every day.” How Do ...
Cancer Advocates Release 2016 Legislative Scorecard
... legislative actions on the tobacco bills brought a halt to the tobacco industry’s lobbying influence that had blocked progress on key public health legislation for 20 years. The legislation, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in May 2016, will help prevent youth from a lifetime ... of cancer policy issues and holds lawmakers accountable for their voting record in the following cancer-related issue areas: Access to care Awareness and disparities Environment ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...
New Report Highlights Lifesaving Community Programs Funded by Prevention Fund
... to save lives by preventing serious chronic diseases such as cancer. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that benefit from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act. In the two years since then, the Prevention Fund has funded evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...
HOW DO YOU MEASURE UP?
... little or nothing to do the right thing. In most cases, these solutions will save the state millions and perhaps billions of dollars through health care cost reductions and increased worker productivity. So, how does your state measure up? Read the report: How Do You Measure Up? HOW DO ...
August 2017 State Update
... liquid nicotine containers and prohibit tobacco use on public and private school property. The bill remains in the Joint Committee on Public Health. We are working with the committee to ensure the bill is reported out ‘favorably’ in the near future. Action items: We are looking for ... 21 to share with our lawmakers. Please connect them with Melissa via email at [email protected] or via phone at 508-270-4683. Office of Health Equity: Despite measured progress, disparate populations continue to have worse health outcomes than the majority population on nearly every ... In January, this bill was filed in the House and Senate, the concurrent proposals have been assigned to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. A public hearing was held in June at which ACS CAN offered testimony in support of the bill. The next step will be for the ...