tailieunhanh - Review and Evaluation of Proposed Legislation Entitled: An Act Relative to Women’s Health and Cancer Recovery Senate Bill 896

The rise and rapid spread of HIV infection, the resurgence of other serious communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis and the increasing recognition that prisons are inappropriate receptacles for people with drug or alcohol dependence and mental health problems have thrust prison health high on the public health agenda. As WHO has emphasized, any national health strategy must include prison policies that address these serious health problems. | II Car ẹ ri VLl Finance and Policy Review and Evaluation of Proposed Legislation Entitled An Act Relative to Women s Health and Cancer Recovery Senate Bill 896 Provided for The Joint Committee on Public Health December 2010 Deval L. Patrick Governor Commonwealth of Massachusetts Timothy P. Murray Lieutenant Governor JudyAnn Bigby Secretary Executive Office of Health and Human Services David Morales Commissioner Division of Health Care Finance and Policy Coverage for Women s Health and Cancer Recovery Table of Contents Notes iii Executive Summary 1 Introduction 7 Background 9 Methodological Approach 16 Summary of Findings 19 Endnotes 24 Appendix Actuarial Review of Massachusetts Senate Bill 896 An Act Relative to Women s Health and Recovery Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy December 2010 ii Coverage for Women s Health and Cancer Recovery Notes This report was prepared by the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy DHCFP pursuant to the provisions of . c. 3 38C which requires DHCFP to evaluate the impact of mandated benefit bills referred by legislative committee for review and to report to the referring committee. The Joint Committee on Public Health referred Senate Bill 896 An Act Relative to Women s Health and Cancer Recovery to DHCFP for review. Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy December 2010 .