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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Covid-19 pandemic has created a hidden |
| 3 | | epidemic of deferred care; and
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| 4 | | WHEREAS, The widespread patient hesitancy to return to |
| 5 | | healthcare services combined with closed and limited |
| 6 | | availability of healthcare services during the pandemic has |
| 7 | | resulted in underdiagnosis and a gap in care, with missed |
| 8 | | opportunities to provide timely and appropriate treatments, |
| 9 | | consequently leading to increased chronic disability and |
| 10 | | mortality; and
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| 11 | | WHEREAS, The long-term impact of the collateral negative |
| 12 | | effects of pandemic-related deferred care is staggering and |
| 13 | | may be felt for a generation; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, A study reported in the New York Times found that |
| 15 | | blood pressure readings increased significantly from April |
| 16 | | 2020 through December 2020 compared with the same period in |
| 17 | | 2019; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, Another study showed that while test volume for |
| 19 | | non-prescribed fentanyl fell during the early months of the |
| 20 | | pandemic and through 2020, the percentage of positive test |
| 21 | | results rose indicating that patients with Opioid Use Disorder |
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| 1 | | were underdiagnosed during the early months of the pandemic |
| 2 | | and through 2020; and
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| 3 | | WHEREAS, The pandemic has disrupted the utilization of |
| 4 | | women's preventive health services and may be associated with |
| 5 | | increased disparities in access to these services; a |
| 6 | | University of Michigan study found that rates of breast cancer |
| 7 | | screenings, cervical cancer screenings, and sexually |
| 8 | | transmitted infection screenings all significantly declined in |
| 9 | | 2020 compared with 2019; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Another study showed new diagnoses of eight |
| 11 | | common types of cancer declined by 46 percent during most of |
| 12 | | the first 13 months of the pandemic, and, according to data |
| 13 | | presented during the American Urological Association's 2021 |
| 14 | | Virtual Experience, weekly prostate cancer screening rates |
| 15 | | declined by as much as 43 percent during the COVID-19 |
| 16 | | pandemic; therefore, be it
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| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 18 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 19 | | we declare March of 2022 as Back to Care Month in the State of |
| 20 | | Illinois to educate and promote patients to return to a |
| 21 | | routine of preventative care and screening.
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