Bill Text: HI SB608 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Physicians; Continuing Education; Nutrition and Lifestyle Behavior
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-12-18 - Carried over to 2014 Regular Session. [SB608 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-SB608-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MEDICINE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that in 2008, United States health care spending was about $7,681 per resident and accounted for 16.2 per cent of the nation's gross domestic product, among the highest of all industrialized countries. Expenditures in the United States on health care surpassed $2,300,000,000,000 in 2008, more than three times the $714,000,000,000 spent in 1990, and over eight times the $253,000,000,000 spent in 1980. It is estimated that health care costs for chronic disease treatment account for over seventy-five per cent of national health expenditures. Seven out of ten deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer, and stroke account for more than fifty per cent of all deaths each year. The last major report from the World Health Organization in March 2003 concluded diet was a major factor in the cause of chronic diseases. Dramatic increases in chronic diseases have been seen in Asian countries since the end of World War II with the increase in the gross national product and change to the western diet.
The legislature further finds that only nineteen per cent of medical students believed that they had been extensively trained in nutrition counseling. Fewer than fifty per cent of primary care physicians include nutrition or dietary counseling in their patient visits. Practicing physicians continually rate their nutrition knowledge and skills as inadequate. More than one-half of graduating medical students report that the time dedicated to nutrition instruction is inadequate.
The purpose of this Act is to require the Hawaii medical board to:
(1) Set content standards for continuing education requirements concerning chronic disease, including appropriate information on prevention of chronic disease, and treatment of patients with chronic disease through changes in nutrition and lifestyle behavior;
(2) Disseminate information regarding the prevention and treatment of chronic disease by the application of changes in nutrition and lifestyle behavior; and
(3) Convene a working group to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
SECTION 2. Chapter 453, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§453- Chronic disease; nutrition and lifestyle behavior information. The Hawaii medical board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the prevention and treatment of chronic disease, through the application of changes in nutrition and lifestyle behavior, to each licensed physician and surgeon and to each hospital in the State.
§453- Chronic disease; continuing education content standards. The Hawaii medical board shall set content standards for continuing education requirements concerning chronic disease, including appropriate information on prevention of chronic disease, and treatment of patients with chronic disease through changes in nutrition and lifestyle behavior."
SECTION 3. The Hawaii medical board shall convene a working group of interested parties to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior changes for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease at one of its meetings no later than July 1, 2016. The board shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2017.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Physicians; Continuing Education; Nutrition and Lifestyle Behavior
Description:
Requires the Hawaii medical board to set content standards for physician continuing education regarding prevention and treatment of chronic disease through changes in nutrition and lifestyle. Requires the board to disseminate information on the subject to physicians and hospitals in the State. Directs the board to assemble a working group to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior for the treatment and prevention of chronic disease at a board meeting before July 1, 2016. Effective January 1, 2050. (SD1)
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