Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1929, to Amend the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to Revise and Extend Such Act, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - Hawaiians |
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Page 99 - The hearing is adjourned. [Applause.] [Whereupon, the committee was adjourned.] APPENDIX ADDITIONAL MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD PREPARED STATEMENT OF JOY M.
Page 1 - Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (vice chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senator Inouye. STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE, US SENATOR FROM HAWAII, VICE CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS Senator INOUYE.
Page 1 - STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE, US SENATOR FROM HAWAII, VICE CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS Senator INOUYE. The US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs meets today to receive testimony on S.
Page 54 - Service and shall be 18 covered under the provisions of section 224 of the Public 19 Health Service Act. 20 "(e) SITE FOR OTHER FEDERAL PAYMENTS. — A Na21 tive Hawaiian health care system that receives funds 22 under subsection (a) shall provide a designated area and 23 appropriate staff to serve as a Federal loan repayment fa24 cility. Such facility shall be designed to enable health and 25 allied-health professionals to remit payments with respect 1 to loans provided to such professionals under...
Page 4 - INOUTE (for himself and Mr. AKAKA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs A BILL To amend the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend such Act. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4 This Act...
Page 19 - Native Hawaiians who are less 14 than full-blood had a mortality rate of 27.1 15 out of every 100,000 residents, which is 79 16 percent higher than the rate for the state17 wide population of all other races. 18 "(C) ASTHMA. — With respect to asthma — 19 "(i) in 1990, Native Hawaiians com20...
Page 16 - State popu6 lation (159.7 out of every 100,000 7 residents); 8 "(II) Native Hawaiian males 9 have the highest cancer mortality 10 rates in the State of Hawaii for can11...
Page 18 - ... due to breast cancer (25.0 out 19 of every 100,000 residents) following 20 African Americans (31.4 out of every 21 100,000 residents) and Caucasian 22 Americans (27.0 out of every 100,000 23 residents).
Page 24 - (iv) in every region of the State of 5 Hawaii, many Native Hawaiian newborns 6 begin life in a potentially hazardous cir7 cumstance, far higher than any other ra8 cial group. 9 "(B) BIRTHS.— With respect to births — 10 "(i) in 1996, 45 percent of the live 11 births to Native Hawaiian mothers were 12 infants born to single mothers which sta13 tistics indicate put...
Page 16 - Hawaii with 8.7 years compared to 23 6.4 years for other males; and 24 "(V) Native Hawaiian females 25 have 8.2 years of productive life lost 1 from cancer in the State of Hawaii as 2 compared to 6.4 years for other fe3 males in the State of Hawaii; 4 "(ii) BREAST CANCER. — With respect 5 to breast cancer...