Bill Text: FL S1120 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Resolution 1120 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Minority Cancer Awareness Week

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-30 - Died, not introduced [S1120 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1120-Introduced.html

 
Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SR 1120 
 
By Senator Wilson 
33-01096-10                                           20101120__ 
1                          Senate Resolution 
2         A resolution recognizing the week of April 18-24, 
3         2010, as “Minority Cancer Awareness Week” in the State 
4         of Florida. 
5 
6         WHEREAS, there has been recent progress in the fight 
7  against cancer, yet many Floridians still suffer unequal rates 
8  of cancer incidence and mortality, and medically underserved 
9  populations have inadequate access to quality cancer prevention, 
10  screening, treatment, and rehabilitation services, and 
11         WHEREAS, certain populations of Floridians, such as African 
12  Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and the medically uninsured, 
13  experience higher rates of cancer incidence and death, and 
14         WHEREAS, even when poverty levels are accounted for, 
15  African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and 
16  Pacific Islanders have lower 5-year-cancer-survival rates than 
17  whites who are not of Hispanic descent, and 
18         WHEREAS, among all racial and ethnic groups, African 
19  Americans experience the highest death rate from all cancers and 
20  the highest death rate from lung, colorectal, prostate, and 
21  cervical cancers, and 
22         WHEREAS, Hispanics and Latinos are the fastest-growing 
23  segment of the nation’s population, and Hispanics are now the 
24  largest minority population in Florida, and 
25         WHEREAS, almost 35 percent of the Hispanic and Latino 
26  population have no health care coverage and almost 31 percent 
27  have no access to regular medical care, making Hispanics and 
28  Latinos the most medically underserved population among all 
29  racial and ethnic groups, and 
30         WHEREAS, approximately 2.8 million or 19.2 percent of adult 
31  Floridians have no health insurance coverage and frequently lack 
32  access to quality health care, including potentially lifesaving 
33  services that screen for, detect, and treat cancer, and 
34         WHEREAS, minority cancer awareness initiatives, such as 
35  those promoted by the American Cancer Society and Florida’s 
36  recognition of the nationally observed Minority Cancer Awareness 
37  Week, will encourage efforts to reduce ethnic, racial, and 
38  socioeconomic cancer disparities, NOW, THEREFORE, 
39 
40  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida: 
41 
42         That the Florida Senate recognizes April 18-24, 2010, as 
43  “Minority Cancer Awareness Week” in the State of Florida, and 
44  urges all Floridians to work with cancer-education providers, 
45  such as the American Cancer Society, to increase awareness of 
46  the disparities that minority populations face in the fight 
47  against cancer.