Full Text of HR0315 96th General Assembly
HR0315 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, During the transition from childhood to | 3 |
| adulthood, adolescents establish unhealthy patterns of | 4 |
| behavior and make poor lifestyle choices that affect both their | 5 |
| current and future health; and
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| WHEREAS, Many adolescents may not have access to primary | 7 |
| healthcare services; in Illinois over 250,000 children between | 8 |
| the ages of birth and seventeen have no insurance; of these | 9 |
| children, 6.3 percent have not seen a physician in the last | 10 |
| five years and 2.6 percent have never seen a physician; and
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| WHEREAS, Adolescence is a critical time to develop positive | 12 |
| habits and skills that can lead to healthy lifestyles and | 13 |
| behavior over the adolescent's lifetime; the Institute of | 14 |
| Medicine and National Research Council conducted a study which | 15 |
| found that one important factor in designing an adolescent | 16 |
| health service is the focus on prevention of disease; one of | 17 |
| the study's findings concluded that "prevention, early | 18 |
| intervention and timely treatment improve health status for | 19 |
| adolescents, prepare them for healthy adulthood, and decrease | 20 |
| the incidence of many chronic diseases in adulthood"; and
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| WHEREAS, Adolescents and young adults are adversely | 22 |
| affected by serious health and safety issues such as motor |
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| vehicle crashes, violence, and substance abuse; they also | 2 |
| struggle to adopt behaviors that could decrease their risk of | 3 |
| developing chronic diseases in adulthood behaviors such as | 4 |
| eating nutritiously, engaging in physical activity, and | 5 |
| choosing not to use tobacco; environmental factors such as | 6 |
| family, peer group, school, and community characteristics also | 7 |
| contribute to the challenges that adolescents face; and
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| WHEREAS, In the past few years, immunizations have been | 9 |
| licensed to provide protection for teens against infections and | 10 |
| diseases such as meningitis, tetanusdiphtheria-acellular | 11 |
| pertussis, influenza, and cervical cancer; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | 13 |
| (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American | 14 |
| Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American Medical | 15 |
| Association (AMA) recommend a routine healthcare visit for | 16 |
| adolescents who are eleven or twelve years of age to receive | 17 |
| recommended immunizations and other evidence-based preventive | 18 |
| healthcare services; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States Department of Health and Human | 20 |
| Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) | 21 |
| has developed, in conjunction with AAP, the Bright Futures | 22 |
| Initiative, which provides a set of guidelines including | 23 |
| recommendations on immunizations and routine health screenings |
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| for adolescents; and
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| WHEREAS, ACIP recommends the use of FDA-approved vaccines | 3 |
| for tetanusdiphtheria-acellular pertussis, meningitis, | 4 |
| influenza, and cervical cancer in adolescents; and the CDC has | 5 |
| launched a national campaign to raise awareness about | 6 |
| adolescent health and immunizations; and
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| WHEREAS, The Society for Adolescent Medicine has found that | 8 |
| adolescent well visits are one of the best tools of preventive | 9 |
| care to ensure continued health from childhood to adulthood and | 10 |
| that children and adolescents who regularly visit a primary | 11 |
| care physician are less likely to have emergency room visits | 12 |
| and preventable hospitalizations; and
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| WHEREAS, Because adolescents remain under the guardianship | 14 |
| of their parents, parental awareness of the need for an | 15 |
| adolescent well visit plays an enormous role in the incidence | 16 |
| of adolescent well visits; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| hereby express support for improved adolescent health and | 20 |
| wellness by recognizing the importance of an adolescent well | 21 |
| physical to prevent chronic diseases, help better identify and | 22 |
| treat chronic diseases, and update immunizations; and be it |
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the | 3 |
| Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois | 4 |
| Department of Human Services to disseminate to State and | 5 |
| federal agencies and stakeholder organizations who can assist | 6 |
| with the promotion of adolescent well-health in Illinois.
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