Steven P. Wallace, A. E. Benjamin, Valentine M. Villa, Nadereh Pourat

This policy brief examines the likely effects of the sweeping 2009 cuts to California's safety-net programs for low-income and disabled seniors.

E. Richard Brown, Richard Kronick, Ninez A. Ponce, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Erin Peckham

This comprehensive, biennial report provides an overview of insurance trends throughout the state and looks specifically at coverage of California's working adults, elderly as well as children's coverage.

Nadereh Pourat, Cori Reifman, Dylan H. Roby, Ying-Ying Meng, Allison L. Diamant, Gerald F. Kominski

Only 27 percent of non-elderly adults in the United States have a "medical home" –- a place where they regularly receive medical care and advice.

Walter Zelman, Alex Melamed

The purpose of this issue brief is to enhance understanding of the politics of health insurance coverage expansion efforts, thereby increasing the probabilities that such expansions may be achieved.

Walter Zelman

This report provides a comprehensive examination of political, policy, and economic factors that contributed to the failure of California's 2007 health care reform effort.

Janet Cummings, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Thomas Rice, E. Richard Brown

Many studies have documented the adverse consequences of uninsurance for children, but less is known about the differential effects of varying periods of uninsurance.

Susan H. Babey, Ying-Ying Meng, Malia Jones

In California, 90,000 adults with current asthma have experienced problems understanding their doctors.

Arleen A. Leibowitz, Katherine Desmond, Thomas Belin

Researchers sought to determine whether lack of state Medicaid coverage for infant male circumcision correlates with lower circumcision rates.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Erin Peckham, Y. Jenny Chia

This policy brief draws upon CHIS 2007 data to examine latest trends in health insurance for the state of California.

Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat

This article explores the barriers to dealing with chronic illness and other factors faced by disease management programs for Medicaid populations.

Nadereh Pourat

Although many Californians have dental insurance, even those with coverage may not be getting the dental care they need, and this is also the case among people who get dental benefits under Medi-Cal.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda

This landmark report describes patterns and trends associated with Latin American, in particular, Mexican migration to the United States.

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Y. Jenny Chia, Nicole Lordi, David Grant, Mirabai Rao

This report provides a summary of the statewide findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), with highlights of changes from 2003 to 2005.

Roberta Wyn, Theresa A. Hastert, Erin Peckham

This report examines important health concerns of nonelderly women (ages 18-64) in California, including their health status, selected health behaviors, health insurance coverage, usual source of care and access to health care.

Gerald F. Kominski, Donald E. Morisky, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Jenny B. Kotlerman

This study measured possible racial/ethnic differences in a Florida disease management (DM) program on utilization of selected healthcare services for four chronic illnesses.

Steven P. Wallace, L. Cricel Molina

The federal poverty guideline, used to determine income eligibility for many public programs, covers less than half of the basic costs experienced by adults age 65 and older in the state.

Nadereh Pourat

This report examines dental care utilization of California children and finds that disparities in dental visits exist, including lower rates of visits for Latino and African American children and those without dental insurance.

Donald E. Morisky, Gerald F. Kominski, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Jenny B. Kotlerman

Premature morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases account for a major proportion of expenditures for health care cost in the United States.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda, Sylvia Guendelman , D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Emily Felt

A collaboration of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Health Initiative of the Americas, this report explores the health care challenges faced by Latin American immigrants, and Mexican immigrants in particular.

Melissa S. Gatchell, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce

This fact sheet looks at the health insurance types and the status of people who use community health centers, public hospitals, and clinics, also called the "safety net," as their usual source of health care.

Ken Jacobs, Korey Capozza, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, E. Richard Brown

This research brief, jointly authored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, finds that many California families spend a substantial amount of their annual income on health care premiums and out-of-pockets costs, and could face financially devastating medical expenses if they are not adequately protected.

Gerald F. Kominski

This paper describes the origins and importance of risk adjustment, summarizes current risk adjustment by Medicare and discusses issues and problems with risk adjustment methods.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown

Using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, this study examines participation (and lack of participation) by eligible children in California’s Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs.

Joshua S. Yang, Steven P. Wallace

New expansions of health insurance in California are unlikely to attract additional undocumented immigrants to the state, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, Jean Yoon, Janet Cummings, Thomas Rice

This report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that job-based health insurance coverage -- the backbone of the state's system of health insurance – continues to decline.

Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Donald E. Morisky, Gerald F. Kominski, Jenny B. Kotlerman

The authors examine the impact of disease management on utilization of selected health care services.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were able to produce these fact sheets detailing health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and demographic characteristics for counties and regions in California.

Roberta Wyn

This policy brief provides an overview of the health insurance coverage of nonelderly women in California, based on data from the 2003 and 2001 California Health Interview Surveys (CHIS 2003, CHIS 2001).

Jean Yoon, E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Sungching Glenn

Despite marginal improvements in job-based health insurance for adults and public program enrollment for children, one in five (6.5 ...

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Jean Yoon, Sungching Glenn

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers found that more than half of the uninsured children in California are eligible for public programs but are not enrolled, a further sign of the limitations in current health insurance arrangements.

Nadereh Pourat, Jas Nihalani, Romni Neiman, George Rutherford, Barry Handon, E. Richard Brown, Gail Bolan

In California, chlamydia and gonorrhea are the most common reportable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Janice Frates, E. Richard Brown

With the goal of developing a comprehensive predictive model of eligible children's enrollment in California's Medicaid (Medi-Cal [MC]) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP; Healthy Families [HF]) programs, the authors examined the effects of multiple family-level factors and contextual county-level factors on children's enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, data on outstationed eligibility workers (OEWs), and administrative data from state agencies and local health insurance expansion programs for fiscal year 2000–2001.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown, Janice Frates, Kathleen Thiede Call, Wei Yen, Jim Watkins

This journal article reports the results of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded California Medicaid Undercount Experiment (CMUE) to estimate the extent of underreporting of Medicaid in the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and its effect on estimates of uninsurance.

Nadereh Pourat, Jay C. Ripps

The continued decline of employment-based coverage in California and more than 6.6 million uninsured residents are major reasons for concern, since health insurance is the primary means by which health care for employed persons and their families is financed in the state.

Gerald F. Kominski, Meghan E. Cameron, Dylan H. Roby

More than 96 percent (nearly 24 million) of insured Californians report "good" or better satisfaction with their health care.

Gerald F. Kominski, Cori Reifman, Meghan E. Cameron, Dylan H. Roby

More than 1 million adult HMO members in California with limited English proficiency are at risk for problems accessing health care services and receiving quality treatment.

Ninez A. Ponce, Leighton Ku, William E. Cunningham, E. Richard Brown

Ponce NA, Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries.

Gregory D. Stevens, Michael Seid, Neal Halfon

Stevens GD, Seid M, Halfon N. Enrolling Vulnerable, Uninsured but Eligible Children in Public Health Insurance: Association With Health Status and Primary Care Access.

Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in California and have become among the most common, costly, and often preventable of all health problems.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown

This report provides estimates of program participation expressed as the ratio of children who are enrolled in either the MC or the HF programs to the total number who are eligible to participate in the programs and who do not have private or employer sponsored health insurance coverage.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Thomas Rice, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Melissa S. Gatchell

This report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that job-based health insurance coverage -- the backbone of the state's system of health insurance -- is declining.

Nadereh Pourat, Thomas Rice, Ming Tai-Seale, Gail Bolan, Jas Nihalani

This journal article examines the association between primary care physician (PCP) reimbursement and delivery of sexually transmitted disease (STD) services.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

Between 2001 and 2003, both children and adults lost employment-based health insurance coverage. For children, increased enrollment in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families resulted in a lower uninsured rate.

Ninez A. Ponce, Robert J. Nordyke, Sherry Hirota

Ponce N, Nordyke RJ, Hirota S. (2005) Uninsured immigrant workers: A View from a California County. Journal of Immigrant Health. ...

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This fact sheet examines children's health insurance coverage, and children who are uninsured but eligible for coverage through public programs, using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

Mona Jhawar, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights regional variations of rates among California children ages 0-5 and ages 6-17 from limited income families (below 300% FPL) who were uninsured and not eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy families in 2001.

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Alek Sripipatana, Beth L. Newman, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in uninsured children's Medi-Cal/Healthy Family eligibility rates by state Assembly, Senate and Congressional districts, as well as by counties and the Los Angeles Service Planning Areas (SPAs).

Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby

This new study found that providing health insurance to the estimated 6.3 million Californians who are currently uninsured would increase direct health care expenditures within the state by about $7.4 ...

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Wei Yen, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Charles A. DiSogra

This report summarizes selected findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. A broad range of health topics are addressed.

E. Richard Brown, Pamela L. Davidson, Hongjian Yu, Roberta Wyn, Ronald M. Andersen, Natasha Razack

Ninez A. Ponce, Susan H. Babey, David A. Etzioni, Benjamin A. Spencer, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This in-depth report describes cancer screening in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.

Delight E. Satter, Nilka Rios Burrows, Melissa S. Gatchell, Maile Tauali'i, D. Tecumseh Welch

This fact sheet examines diabetes prevalence, co-morbidities of diabetes, health insurance status, and access to care for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) in California and offers policy recommendations in response to these findings.

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This report, based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), examines long-term and intermittent health insurance coverage, and the sources and consequences of resulting periods of uninsurance.

Steven P. Wallace, Delight E. Satter, Andrea Zubiate

Planning and financing long-term care services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) elders is a challenge.

Gerald F. Kominski

This report describes how Tenet has turned the Medi-Cal Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program, which was created to keep safety net hospitals alive, into a corporate profit center.

Susan H. Babey, Ninez A. Ponce, David A. Etzioni, Benjamin A. Spencer, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This policy brief reports on cancer screening in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.

Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, Kim Uyeda, Gregory D. Stevens, Sue Holtby, Janel Wright, E. Richard Brown

This report, prepared jointly by the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and the Public Health Institute, is the first of its kind to reveal key measures of health and well being for California's three million children under age 6.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This report, prepared by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the first on diabetes prevalence among Californians using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001).

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

Nadereh Pourat, Gabrielle Lessard, Armine Lulejian, Lida M. Becerra, Rini Chakraborty

This fact sheet is a joint effort of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) using the 2001 California Health Interview Survey data.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research prepared this new fact sheet report as part of its participation in the Cover the Uninsured Week (CTUW) campaign - an unprecedented week long series of national and local activities taking place during the week of Monday, March 10, through Friday, March 14.

Jennifer Aguayo, E. Richard Brown, Michael A. Rodriguez, Lia Margolis

This is a joint publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC).

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This report examines health insurance coverage in California based on the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001) data.

Roberta Wyn, Victoria D. Ojeda

This Policy Brief examines the health insurance coverage of single mothers in California, addressing the factors affecting their coverage, as well as changes in coverage between 1994-95 and 1998-99.

Nadereh Pourat, E. Richard Brown, Natasha Razack, William Kassler

Pourat N, Brown ER, Razack N, Kassler W. Medicaid Managed Care and STDs: Missed Opportunities to Control the Epidemic.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Lida M. Becerra

Ninez A. Ponce, Tomiko Conner, B. Patricia Barrera, Dong Suh

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice

E. Richard Brown, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Hongjian Yu

Roberta Wyn, Victoria D. Ojeda

In a survey conducted by the California Alliance for Women’s Health Leadership, community-based leaders in women’s health recently identified as key issues lack of health insurance and lack of access to health care for women of color, those with low incomes, and younger women. Without ...

Delight E. Satter, E. Richard Brown

On behalf of the Universal Coverage for California’s Children Coalition, Kaiser Permanente Cares for Kids (KPCK) asked the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (the Center) to study the attitudes, perceptions, and opinions of Californians with incomes between 200% – 275% of the federal poverty level about the value of health insurance for their children. Focus ...

Delight E. Satter, E. Richard Brown

California Policy Research Center, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

E. Richard Brown, Roberta Wyn, Stephanie Teleki

U.S. metropolitan areas are characterized by pronounced disparities in rates of health insurance coverage and access to care.

E. Richard Brown, John Nakashima, Nadereh Pourat, Natasha Razack, Sylvia Chu

This report examines the extent to which managed care organizations (MCOs) that serve Medicaid beneficiaries are promoting effective management, control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among their enrollees—and whether these organizations’ policies correspond with the actual practices of the primary care providers in their networks.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown, Hongjian Yu

Report to the California Assembly Health Committee Based on Research Funded by a Technical Assistance ...

E. Richard Brown, Victoria D. Ojeda, Roberta Wyn, Rebecca Levan

Racial and ethnic groups in the United States continue to experience major disparities in health status.

Ninez A. Ponce, Stephanie Teleki, E. Richard Brown

More than 2 million children in California do not have any form of health insurance. The proportion of uninsured children in the state has increased over the past several years (from 17% in 1995 to 21% in 1998) and is significantly higher than in the rest of the nation (15% in 1998).

A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy