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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 154
Author: Liu (D)
Introduced:6/15/16
Vote: 21
SUBJECT: Pain Awareness Month and Women in Pain Awareness Day
SOURCE: For Grace (A Project of Community Partners)
DIGEST: This resolution recognizes the month of September 2016
as Pain Awareness Month. This resolution also recognizes
September 23, 2016, as Women In Pain Awareness Day.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)More than 100 million Americans live with chronic pain caused
by various diseases or disorders, and nearly 25 million
Americans suffer with acute pain each year.
2)Though medical knowledge and technology exist to relieve or
greatly ease pain, most pain is untreated, undertreated, or
improperly treated, and many health care professionals are
still unaware of how to effectively treat pain.
3)People who suffer from chronic pain often are stigmatized,
marginalized, and not informed about the right to effective
pain assessment and management, and most people with pain,
including those at the end of life, get little or no relief.
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4)Women have a higher prevalence than men of syndromes and
diseases associated with chronic pain, such as fibromyalgia,
complex pain syndrome, and osteoarthritis, and women respond
differently to certain analgesics.
5)Women more frequently report pain to a health care provider,
but are more likely to have their pain reports discounted as
emotional or psychogenic and, therefore, not real.
This resolution:
1)Recognizes and declares the month of September 2016 as Pain
Awareness Month, and calls upon all Californians to observe
the month by participating in appropriate ceremonies and
activities, and by learning how to improve the quality of life
for people in California suffering from pain.
2)Recognizes September 23, 2016, as Women In Pain Awareness Day
to draw public attention to the important need to raise
awareness concerning gender disparities in pain assessment and
treatment in the United States.
Prior Legislation
SCR 77 (Liu, Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2015)
recognized the month of September 2015 as Pain Awareness Month
and also recognized September 11, 2015, as Women In Pain
Awareness Day.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/20/16)
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For Grace (A Project of Community Partners) (source)
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/20/16)
None received
Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520
6/22/16 15:15:12
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