§ 41-111-3. Mandatory reporting of child fatality or near fatality; mandatory reporters; reporting procedure and contents; confidentiality of reports; reporter immunity; penalties
Mandatory reporters: All law enforcement officers, firefighters, child protection service employees, medical care personnel, doctors, nurses, medical examiners, coroners, health care providers, and all agents and employees of the State Medical Examiner’s office, and any other persons who are designated as mandatory reporters under Section 43-21-353(1) who have knowledge or information concerning a “child fatality” […]
§ 41-112-1. Maternal Mortality Review Committee created; purpose; annual report; confidentiality of records provided, obtained, created or maintained
The State Department of Health is authorized to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths and establish strategies to prevent maternal deaths. The committee shall be multidisciplinary and be composed of such members as deemed appropriate by the department. The committee may develop subcommittees to carry out the purposes of the committee. […]
§ 41-113-1. Legislative intent
The Mississippi Legislature recognizes the devastating impact that tobacco use has on the citizens of our state. Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in this country and this state. Each year, thousands of Mississippians lose their lives to diseases caused by tobacco use, and the cost to the state […]
§ 41-113-3. Office of Tobacco Control created in State Board of Health; development of comprehensive statewide tobacco education, prevention and cessation program; program components; funding
There is hereby created the Office of Tobacco Control (office) which shall be an administrative division of the State Department of Health. The Office of Tobacco Control, with the advice of the Mississippi Tobacco Control Advisory Board, shall develop and implement a comprehensive and statewide tobacco education, prevention and cessation program that is consistent with […]
§ 41-101-3. Council may be established as nonprofit corporation; Department of Health may execute contracts with council for development and implementation of obesity prevention and management programs; Statewide Obesity Prevention and Management Fund established
The chairman of the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1, with participation from the members of the council, may develop and implement a plan to establish the council as a nonprofit corporation under Mississippi law. For a period of one (1) year after the council is established as a nonprofit […]
§ 41-103-1. Creation of task force; membership; officers; meetings; administration; compensation
There is created the Task Force on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, which will be responsible for making available state-of-the-art information on heart disease and stroke education, prevention and treatment to health-care providers in Mississippi. The task force will serve as a consensus group designed to coordinate efforts in heart disease and stroke education, prevention […]
§ 41-103-3. Duties of task force; reports to Legislature and Governor
The Task Force on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention has the following duties: Undertake a statistical and qualitative examination of the incidence and causes of heart disease and stroke deaths and risks, including identification of subpopulations at highest risk for developing heart disease and stroke, and establish a profile of the social and economic burden […]
§ 41-107-1. Title
This chapter may be known and cited as the “Mississippi Health Care Rights of Conscience Act.”
§ 41-107-3. Definitions
As used in this chapter: “Health-care service” means any phase of patient medical care, treatment or procedure, including, but not limited to, the following: patient referral, counseling, therapy, testing, diagnosis or prognosis, research, instruction, prescribing, dispensing or administering any device, drug, or medication, surgery, or any other care or treatment rendered by health-care providers or […]
§ 41-107-5. Rights of Conscience of Health-Care Providers
Rights of Conscience. A health-care provider has the right not to participate, and no health-care provider shall be required to participate in a health-care service that violates his or her conscience. However, this subsection does not allow a health-care provider to refuse to participate in a health-care service regarding a patient because of the patient’s […]