§1074d. Primary and preventive health care services for women
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(b)
(1) Papanicolaou tests (pap smear).
(2) Breast examinations and mammography.
(3) Comprehensive obstetrical and gynecological care, including care related to pregnancy and the prevention of pregnancy.
(4) Infertility and sexually transmitted diseases, including prevention.
(5) Menopause, including hormone replacement therapy and counseling regarding the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy.
(6) Physical or psychological conditions arising out of acts of sexual violence.
(7) Gynecological cancers.
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Defense Women's Health Research Program
"(a)
"(b)
"(c)
"(d)
"(e)
"(1) The coordination and support activities described in section 251 of
"(2) Epidemiologic research regarding women deployed for military operations, including research on patterns of illness and injury, environmental and occupational hazards (including exposure to toxins), side-effects of pharmaceuticals used by women so deployed, psychological stress associated with military training, deployment, combat and other traumatic incidents, and other conditions of life, and human factor research regarding women so deployed.
"(3) Development of a data base to facilitate long-term research studies on issues related to the health of women in military service, and continued development and support of a women's health information clearinghouse to serve as an information resource for clinical, research, and policy issues affecting women in the Armed Forces.
"(4) Research on policies and standards issues, including research supporting the development of military standards related to training, operations, deployment, and retention and the relationship between such activities and factors affecting women's health.
"(5) Research on interventions having a potential for addressing conditions of military service that adversely affect the health of women in the Armed Forces.
"(f)
"(a)
"(b)
"(1) Combat stress and trauma.
"(2) Exposure to toxins and other environmental hazards associated with military equipment.
"(3) Psychology related stress in warfare situations.
"(4) Mental health, including post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
"(5) Human factor studies related to women in combat areas.
"(c)
"(d)
"(e)
"(1) Program planning, infrastructure development, baseline information gathering, technology infusion, and connectivity.
"(2) Management and technical staffing.
"(3) Data base development of health issues related to service by women on active duty as compared to service by women in the National Guard or Reserves.
"(4) Research protocols, cohort development, health surveillance, and epidemiologic studies, to be developed in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health whenever possible.
"(f)
"(g)
"(2) If the Secretary determines to establish the Center, the Secretary shall, not less than 60 days before the establishment of the Center, submit to those committees a report describing the planned location for the Center and the competitive process used in the selection of that location."
Report on Provision of Primary and Preventative Health Care Services for Women
Section 735 of
"(a)
"(b)
"(1) A description of the number and types of health care providers who are providing health care services in military medical treatment facilities or through the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to female members and female covered beneficiaries.
"(2) A description of the health care programs implemented (or planned) by the administering Secretaries to assess the health needs of women or to meet the special health needs of women.
"(3) A description of the demographics of the population of female members and female covered beneficiaries and the leading categories of morbidity and mortality among such members and beneficiaries.
"(4) A description of any actions, including the use of special pays and incentives, undertaken by the Secretary during fiscal year 1993-
"(A) to ensure the retention of health care providers who are providing health care services to female members and female covered beneficiaries;
"(B) to recruit additional health care providers to provide such health care services; and
"(C) to replace departing health care providers who provided such health care services.
"(5) A description of any existing or proposed programs to encourage specialization of health care providers in fields related to primary and preventive health care services for women.
"(6) An assessment of any difficulties experienced by military medical treatment facilities or health care providers under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services in furnishing primary and preventive health care services for women and a description of the actions taken by the Secretary to resolve such difficulties.
"(7) A description of the actions taken by the Secretary to foster and encourage the expansion of research relating to health care issues of concern to female members of the uniformed services and female covered beneficiaries.
"(c)
"(2) The study shall examine the health care needs of current female members and female covered beneficiaries and anticipated future female members and female covered beneficiaries, taking into consideration the anticipated size and composition of the Armed Forces in the year 2000 and the demographics of the entire United States.
"(d)
"(e)
"(1) The term 'primary and preventive health care services for women' has the meaning given that term in section 1074d(b) of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 701(a)).
"(2) The term 'covered beneficiary' has the meaning given that term in section 1072(5) of such title."
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1077 of this title.