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•	Physical Activity: Cinderella or Rodney Dangerfield? (Preventive Medicine) Antronette Yancey, James F. Sallis Physical inactivity is one of the leading causes of death, disability and health care costs, but resources and other investments in promoting physical activity are neither proportional, nor ideally suited, to address the problem, especially in the United States.	Journal Article	Oct 2009

•	The Meta-Volition Model: Organizational Leadership Is the Key Ingredient in Getting Society Moving, Literally! (Preventive Medicine) Antronette Yancey The author studies how substantive and sustainable population-wide improvements in physical activity can be achieved only through the large-scale adoption and implementation of policies and practices that make being active the default choice and remaining inactive difficult.	Journal Article	Sep 2009

•	The Landscape of Opportunity: Cultivating Health Equity in California California Pan-Ethnic Health Network This report examines a range of indicators, from education to housing, to neighborhood safety, to food access, to criminal justice as well as health insurance, among other topics to explore how health inequities can be eliminated in communities of color.	Outside Publication	Jul 2009

•	Sociodemographic, Family, and Environmental Factors Associated with Active Commuting to School among US Adolescents (Journal of Public Health Policy) Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Winnie Huang, E. Richard Brown Active commuting (non-motorized transport) to school can be an important source of physical activity for children and adolescents.	Journal Article	Feb 2009

•	Adolescent Preventive Services: Rates and Disparities in Preventive Health Topics Covered During Routine Medical Care in a California Sample (Journal of Adolescent Health) Sally Adams, Sheila Husting, Elaine Zahnd, Elizabeth Ozer The authors studied rates and disparities in preventive health topics covered during routine medical care for adolescents, using a California sample.	Journal Article	Dec 2008

•	Low-Income Adolescents Face More Barriers to Healthy Weight Theresa A. Hastert, Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, E. Richard Brown In this policy brief, the authors examine why low-income teenagers are almost three times more likely to be obese than teens from more affluent households.	Policy Brief	Dec 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

•	Women's Health in California: Health Status, Health Behaviors. Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Services Among California Women Ages 18-64 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.	Research Report	Aug 2008

•	Process Evaluation of the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition Network (Preventing Chronic Disease) Richard E. Kratz, Ninez A. Ponce, Antronette Yancey This study evaluated the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition Network, a large multicomponent nutrition and physical activity program in an ethnically diverse school district, launched in 2000. Thirty-six ...	Journal Article	Apr 2008

•	Physical Activity Among Adolescents: When Do Parks Matter? (American Journal of Preventive Medicine) Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Hongjian Yu, E. Richard Brown The availability of places to engage in physical activity may influence physical activity levels. This study examined whether the relationship between physical activity and access to parks differs depending on adolescents’ sociodemographic, housing and neighborhood characteristics.	Journal Article	Apr 2008

•	Perceptions of Diet and Physical Activity Among California Hmong Adults and Youths (Preventing Chronic Disease) Loan Pham Kim, Gail G. Harrison, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer This journal article reports the findings of a qualitative study designed to inform the development of a proposed community-wide campaign to promote increased physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income Hmong families.	Journal Article	Oct 2007

•	Prevalence of Active Epilepsy and Active Quality of Life among Adults with Self-Reported Epilepsy in California: California Health Interview Survey, 2003 (Epilepsia) Rosemarie Kobau, Hatice Zahran, David Grant, David J. Thurman, Patricia H. Price, Matthew M. Zack Using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), this article assesses the prevalence of self-reported and active epilepsy, as well as associated health-related quality of life issues, among adults in California.	Journal Article	Oct 2007

•	Fighting Cancer with Fitness: Dietary outcomes of a randomized, Controlled Lifestyle Change Intervention in Healthy African-American Women (Preventive Medicine) William J. McCarthy, Antronette Yancey, Gail G. Harrison, Joanne Leslie, Judith M. Siegel This study tested the efficacy of an eight-week, culturally targeted, community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention: Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF).	Journal Article	Mar 2007

•	Teens Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Lack Access to Parks and Get Less Physical Activity Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown Teens living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of low-income households are unlikely to have a safe park near their home and are more likely to get less physical activity, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.	Policy Brief	Mar 2007

•	Adult Smoking Rate Declines, While Asthma, Diabetes and Obesity Rates Rise Susan H. Babey, David Grant, E. Richard Brown Using newly available data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), as well as data from CHIS 2001 and CHIS 2003, this fact sheet provides an early look at changes over time in the prevalence of smoking, asthma, diabetes, and overweight and obesity in California.	Fact Sheet	Nov 2006

•	Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States: Health Care Access Elena Zúñiga, Xóchitl Castañeda, Al Averbach, Steven P. Wallace This report focuses on the population of Mexican ancestry in the United States and in California, with an emphasis on immigrants.	Research Report	Oct 2006

•	Nearly Six Million Californians Suffer from Asthma Symptoms or Asthma-like Breathing Problems Susan H. Babey, Ying-Ying Meng, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert Nearly 6 million Californians report that they have difficulty breathing. Moreover, according to this policy brief, asthma among California adults increased from 2001 to 2003 across all age groups and 3.4 ...	Policy Brief	Oct 2006

•	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

•	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

•	Seizing the Moment: California's Opportunity to Prevent Nutrition-Related Health Disparities in Low-Income Asian American Populations (Cancer) Gail G. Harrison, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Susan B. Foerester, Henry Lee, Loan Pham Kim, Allyn Fernandez-Ami, Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Valerie Quinn, Dileep G. Bal Harrison GG, Kagawa-Singer M, Foerster SB, Lee H, Pham Kim L, Nguyen TU, Fernandez-Ami A, Quinn V, Bal DG.	Journal Article	Dec 2005

•	Half of California Adults Walk Less Than One Hour Each Week E. Richard Brown, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Allison L. Diamant One in four California adults does not walk at all for transportation or leisure in an average week and half of California adults walk for a combined total of less than one hour each week as reported in this new health policy research brief that uses data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).	Policy Brief	Dec 2005

•	Access to Safe Parks Helps Increase Physical Activity Among Teenagers Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert More than one in four California adolescents -- nearly one million in all -- get less than the recommended levels of physical activity, but neighborhood characteristics and access to safe parks have an important effect on whether teens meet activity recommendations, and whether they get any activity at all reports this new health policy research brief using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).	Policy Brief	Dec 2005

•	More Than Half of Californians in HMOs Are Overweight or Obese Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Natalya Mostovskaya More than 5 million Californians enrolled in HMOs (over 50% of enrollees aged 12-64) are overweight or obese.	Policy Brief	Jul 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

•	One out of Three Latino Adolescents Overweight or At Risk Michael A. Rodriguez, Marlena Kane, Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, George R. Flores This fact sheet describes overweight among Latino adolescents in California based on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).	Fact Sheet	Apr 2005

•	California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert This policy brief describes physical activity among California's adolescents based primarily on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).	Policy Brief	Apr 2005

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