No. HB 161
Filed under Healthcare.
Impact of Perimenopause and Menopause on Women's Health; Requires DOH to establish perimenopause & menopause policy workgroup; provides requirements for workgroup; requires department, in collaboration with others, to develop & make publicly available information relating to perimenopause & menopause; provides requirements for such information.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Health must create a policy workgroup on perimenopause and menopause, made up of health care providers, women with firsthand experience, and advocates, to develop key messages and set priorities.
The workgroup must plan outreach beyond doctors' offices, considering places like personal trainers, yoga instructors, hairdressers, and religious meeting places as ways to reach women, employers, and medical providers with information.
The department must also publish scientific information on perimenopause and menopause symptoms, treatments, and health risks on its website, including a printable checklist of preventive care questions to bring to a doctor's visit.
No deadline or funding is attached to any of this -- the text does not say when the workgroup must convene or when the public information must go live.
AIThe Department of Health must create a new workgroup dedicated to perimenopause and menopause, tasked with developing key messages, setting initiative priorities, and building a coordinated communications strategy.
AIThe Department of Health, working with the workgroup and other agencies, must post resources and links about perimenopause and menopause on its website for anyone to access.
AIThe workgroup must consider spreading information through everyday community touchpoints beyond doctors' offices, naming personal trainers, yoga instructors, hairdressers, religious meeting places, and community centers as potential channels.
AIThe workgroup must support communicating the science on the safety of hormone replacement therapy and nonhormonal therapies for appropriate patients, and how these treatments can improve health during menopause.
AIAmong the published resources, the department must include a printable checklist that outlines preventive care women need in midlife and questions they may want to ask their clinician.
AIThe workgroup must include health care providers, women who have experienced perimenopause or menopause, advocates, and other interested parties and associations, but no specific number of members or appointing authority is set.