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•	California Budget Cuts Fray the Long-Term Safety Net 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.	Policy Brief	Oct 2009

•	National Health Care Reform Will Help Four Million Uninsured Adults and Children in California Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown This fact sheet looks at the likely implications of national health care reform efforts on health insurance coverage in California.	Fact Sheet	Oct 2009

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey 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.	Policy Research Report	Aug 2009

•	How Much Choice Is Too Much? The Case of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Health Services Research) Yaniv Hanoch, Thomas Rice, Janet Cummings, Stacey Wood Researchers study the impact of the number of choices and age on measures of performance in choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan.	Journal Article	May 2009

•	Half a Million Older Californians Living Alone Unable to Make Ends Meet Steven P. Wallace, Susan E. Smith Using the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), the authors of this policy brief find that nearly half a million elders (495,000) living alone in California in 2007 could not make ends meet—lacking sufficient income to pay for a minimum level of housing, food, health care, transportation and other basic expenses.	Policy Brief	Feb 2009

•	Drilling Down: Access, Affordability and Consumer Perceptions in Adult Dental Health 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.	Outside Publication	Nov 2008

•	Trends in the Health of Older Californians: Data from the 2001, 2003 and 2005 California Health Interview Surveys Steven P. Wallace, Jennifer Lee, May Jawad Aydin California's population is getting older. By 2026 the elderly population will double to nearly 8 million.	Research Report	Nov 2008

•	Health of California's Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from CHIS 2005 and CHIS 2003 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.	Research Report	Sep 2008

•	Federal Poverty Guideline Underestimates Costs of Living for Older Persons in California 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.	Policy Brief	Feb 2008

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey 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.	Research Report	Jul 2007

•	Food Security Among California's Low-Income Adults Improves, But Most Severely Affected Do Not Share in Improvement Gail G. Harrison, Matthew Sharp, George Manolo-LeClair, Anthony Ramirez, November McGarvey This policy brief reports that, according to the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, more than 2.5 ...	Policy Brief	Jun 2007

•	Falls, Disability and Food Insecurity Present Challenges to Healthy Aging Steven P. Wallace, L. Cricel Molina, Mona Jhawar Falls, disability and hunger are surprisingly common aspects of life for California seniors, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.	Policy Brief	May 2007

•	Less Than One-Quarter of California Adults Walk Regularly Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown Less than one-fourth of California adults -- 5.5 million -- walk on a regular basis, while significantly more than that -- 6.8 ...	Policy Brief	Aug 2006

•	Linguistic Disparities in Health Care Access and Health Status among Older Adults (Journal of General Internal Medicine) Ninez A. Ponce, Ron D. Hays, William E. Cunningham Ponce NA, Hays R, Cunningham W. Linguistic Disparities in Health Care Access and Health Status among Older Adults.	Journal Article	Jul 2006

•	Health of California's Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from the CHIS 2003 and CHIS 2001 Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Jenny Chia, John Kurata Many Californians are still struggling to reach good health, according to this report from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the country's largest population-based state health survey.	Research Report	Jun 2006

•	Closing the Gap: Health Disparities Among Older Americans, Public Health Approaches (Aging Today) Steven P. Wallace Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that caused much preventable death and misery, especially in New Orleans.	Journal Article	Mar 2006

•	Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Preventive Services Among the Elderly (American Journal of Preventive Medicine) J. Y. Chen, Allison L. Diamant, Nadereh Pourat, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer Chen JY, Diamant A, Pourat N, Kagawa-Singer M. Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of preventive services among the elderly.	Journal Article	Dec 2005

•	The Public Health Perspective on Aging (Generations) Steven P. Wallace Wallace, Steven P. The Public Health Perspective on Aging. Generations. 29:2(2005), 5-10.	Journal Article	Jun 2005

•	Too Many California Adults Are Tipping the Scales at an Unhealthy Weight Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in obesity and overweight rates among California adults for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts.	Policy Brief	Apr 2005

•	Over Four Million California Adults Age 45 and Older Have High Blood Pressure Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in hypertension rates among California adults for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts.	Policy Brief	Nov 2004

•	Asthma among California's Children, Adults and the Elderly: A Geographic Look by Legislative Districts Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Mona Jhawar, Sripipatana Alek This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in asthma rates among all Californians for state legislative and Congressional districts.	Policy Brief	Sep 2004

•	Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What are the Causes? (Inquiry) Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin, Jose J. Escarce, Dana Goldman, Hongjun Kan, Miriam J. Laugesen, Paul Shekelle In light of rising expenditures for physicians' services and the scheduled decreases in the amounts Medicare pays for such services, this article identified the sources of change in the volume and intensity of Medicare physicians' services.	Journal Article	Jun 2004

•	Mexican Immigrants are Generally Healthier, but Have Less Access to Needed Health Care Steven P. Wallace, Veronica F. Gutierrez, E. Richard Brown This health policy fact sheet presents information on selected indicators of the health status and access to health care of Mexican immigrants in California.	Fact Sheet	Oct 2003

•	Health of Older Californians: County Data Book Steven P. Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Vilma Enriquez-Haass, Sripipatana Alek This report provides detailed profiles of the health behavior, health status, preventive care, access to services, and demographics for Californians age 65 and over.	Research Report	Oct 2003

•	Medicaid Home Care for Tribal Health Services: A Tool Kit for Developing New Programs 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.	Research Report	Oct 2003

•	Equitable Health Systems: Cultural and Structural Issues for Latino Elders (American Journal of Law & Medicine) Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa	Journal Article	Feb 2003

•	Over 2.2 Million Low-Income California Adults are Food Insecure; 658,000 Suffer Hunger Gail G. Harrison, Charles A. DiSogra, George Manolo-LeClair, Jennifer Aguayo, Wei Yen More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table and, as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger.	Policy Brief	Nov 2002

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey 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.	Research Report	Jun 2002

•	Postadmission Disparities in Nursing Homes Stays of Whites and Minority Elderly (Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved) Nadereh Pourat, Ronald M. Andersen, Steven P. Wallace Pourat N, Andersen R, Wallace S. Postadmission Disparities in Nursing Homes Stays of Whites and Minority Elderly.	Journal Article	Aug 2001

•	Access is Better for Racial / Ethnic Elderly in Medicare HMOs - But Disparities Exist Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Vilma Enriquez-Haass, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck	Policy Brief	May 2001

•	Uninsured Californians in Assembly and Senate Districts, 2000 E. Richard Brown, Ying-Ying Meng, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu	Policy Research Report	May 2001

•	California Immigrants Have Mostly Lower Rates of Disability and Use of Disability Services than State’s U.S.-Born Residents A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy	Policy Brief	Jul 2000

•	Perceptions of Health and Utilization of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly (Journal of Health and Aging) Nadereh Pourat, James Lubben, Hongjian Yu, Steven P. Wallace Pourat N, Lubben J, Yu H, Wallace S. Perceptions of Health and Utilization of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly.	Journal Article	Feb 2000

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