No. SB 190
Filed under Healthcare.
Impact of Perimenopause and Menopause on Women’s Health; Requiring the Department of Health to establish a perimenopause and menopause policy workgroup; requiring the department, in collaboration with others, to develop and make publicly available on its website information relating to perimenopause and menopause, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Health must create a perimenopause and menopause policy workgroup, made up of providers, advocates, and women who have experienced it, tasked with shaping public messaging and outreach priorities.
The department must also publish free, publicly available resources online covering perimenopause and menopause symptoms, treatment options, health risks of reduced estrogen, and a printable checklist for clinician visits.
The workgroup must consider spreading this information well beyond doctors' offices, naming personal trainers, yoga instructors, hairdressers, religious meeting places, and community centers as potential outreach points.
AIThe department, working with the workgroup, the Office of Women's Health, and other state agencies, must develop and post free online resources on perimenopause and menopause, including scientific information on symptoms, treatments, and estrogen-related health risks.
AIThe Department of Health must establish a perimenopause and menopause policy workgroup made up of health care providers, women who have experienced perimenopause or menopause, advocates, and other interested parties, tasked with developing messaging and setting outreach priorities.
AIThe workgroup must consider a range of information-dissemination points beyond doctors' offices, expressly including personal trainers, yoga instructors, hairdressers, religious meeting places, and community centers, when planning outreach.
AIThe workgroup must support efforts to communicate the scientific evidence on the safety of hormone replacement therapy and nonhormonal therapies, and their role in improving health for menopausal women in appropriate patients.