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Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas, Ken Jacobs, Dylan H. Roby, Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski

This comprehensive, biennial report uses the latest data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to paint a comprehensive picture of health insurance trends, access, and coverage status for California's more than 37 million residents.

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Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Ken Jacobs, Greg Watson, Dave Graham-Squire, Christina M. Kinane, Daphna Gans, Jack Needleman

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that almost all Americans purchase some type of health insurance coverage has been controversial.

Kathryn G. Kietzman, Eva Durazo, Jacqueline Torres, Anne Soon Choi, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief presents findings from a yearlong study that closely followed a small but typical set of older Californians with disabilities who depend on fragile arrangements of paid public programs and unpaid help to live safely and independently at home.

Ken Jacobs, Dave Graham-Squire, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, Christina M. Kinane, Jack Needleman, Greg Watson, Daphna Gans

This joint publication of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research looks at The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) mandate to offer premium subsidies to help eligible individuals and their families purchase insurance coverage when affordable job-based coverage is not available.

Angie Denisse Otiniano, Amy Carroll-Scott

Promotores &mdash community health workers who educate hard-to-reach Latinos on best health practices &mdash have few opportunities for research training and professional development.

Roberta Wyn, Elaine Zahnd

The proportion of nonelderly California women ages 18-64 with no health insurance coverage grew to nearly one in four between 2007 and 2009, the years right before and during the economic recession, according to a new policy brief from the Public Health Institute (PHI) that uses data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant, Amanda Bloom, Harold Goldstein

This joint study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) finds that the percentage of overweight and obese children in the state dropped 1.1 ...

David Grant, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, May Aydin, Leanne Streja, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Beena Patel, Julia Caldwell

This report and related fact sheet provides some of the first comprehensive data ever collected on the mental health of California's adult population.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, Livier Cabezas, E. Richard Brown

During the Great Recession, the lowest income worker in California had six times the odds of lacking access to job-based insurance compared to the highest income worker group, according to this study authored by four Center researchers for the California Journal of Politics and Policy.

Onyebuchi A. Arah, et al.

Where diabetes treatment is concerned, what constitutes good "quality of care"? In a new article for Health Expectations, Center Faculty Associate Onyebuchi Arah and other researchers explored which of the myriad types of examinations given to diabetes patients contributes to a better patient experience overall.

Gergana Kodjebacheva, E. Richard Brown, et al.

The majority of first graders in at least three school districts in Southern California who need eyeglasses do not have them, according to an article in the November issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Applied Survey Research

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, Royce Park

Despite the steady decline of smoking rates in California, 224,000 children under age 12 live in homes where smoking is allowed, and another 742,000 live with an adult or adolescent smoker.

LGBT Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, Center for American Progress

The typical American family is no longer made up of married heterosexuals raising their biological children, notes a report that uses CHIS and other data to offer one of the most comprehensive portraits to date of the wide range of obstacles facing lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) families.

Camilia Lui, Steven P. Wallace

How many people with chronic conditions end up in the hospital? The answer to this question may help hospitals and health providers better target ambulatory care — the essential outpatient treatment that helps forestall costly hospitalizations.

Nadereh Pourat, Marvin Marcus

Despite a focus on preventive care, dentists still spend more time filling cavities than preventing them, according to this article by Center Director of Research Nadereh Pourat in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

This policy brief profiles California's informal caregivers -- adults who provide care to a family member or friend coping with an illness or disability.

Hai-Yen Sung, et al.

Severe stress makes smokers more likely to light up and less likely to quit, according to the authors of a new journal article in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on adolescents in San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on children in San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Carol Bradner, et al.

Objective: To examine the relationship between BMI status (normal, overweight, and obese) and preventive screening among adolescents at their last checkup.

Lake Research Partners, American Viewpoint

On behalf of The SCAN Foundation and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Lake Research Partners and American Viewpoint conducted a statewide survey among 1,490 registered voters in California ages 40 and older.

Elaine Zahnd, May Aydin, David Grant, Sue Holtby

This policy brief presents findings on the linkages between intimate partner violence (IPV), emotional health and substance use among adults ages 18-65 in California.

Jacob Dumez, Henoch Derbew

The longstanding "wealth gap" between people of color and whites has actually worsened in recent decades.

Helen Lee, Shannon McConville

The Public Policy Institute of California released a comprehensive report on the characteristics of uninsured Californians likely to become eligible for Medi-Cal under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant

This policy brief examines the connection between retail food environments and dietary behaviors and health outcomes among California teenagers.

Giyeon Kim, et al.

This journal article used data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine the health status, health service use and barriers to care experienced by Latino and Asian immigrants aged 60 and older.

Steven P. Wallace (Guest Editor)

As America both ages and becomes more ethnically diverse, how can gerontologists and other researchers ensure that their studies and science account for this diversity? Center Associate Director Steven Wallace, a noted authority on elder health, was asked by the leading journal The Gerontologist to be the guest editor of a specially-themed June supplement on just this topic.

Eva Durazo, Melissa R. Jones, Steven P. Wallace, Jessica Van Arsdale, May Aydin, Connie Stewart

This policy brief examines the health of rural elders and, by contrast, their urban counterparts, and finds that both groups are more likely to be unhealthy than suburban older adults.

Ninez A. Ponce, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) restricts its health insurance expansions in ways that exclude many uninsured children in California who are immigrants or have immigrant parents.

Women's Fund of Monterey County

Poverty, obstacles to education, disparities and safety are all concerns that challenge the progress of women and girls in Monterey County, according to The Community Foundation of Monterey County in a report that uses CHIS data.

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities et al

Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender individuals (LGBTs) are becoming more visible in society, but where is the data to help researchers and clinicians understand their health needs? A new report by The National Academies Press assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations and notes that the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is one of the few sources of data on LGBs in particular.

Nadereh Pourat, Christina M. Kinane, Gerald F. Kominski

This policy brief finds that about 1.71 million nonelderly Californians were uninsured for all or part of 2009 and are estimated to be eligible to participate and receive subsidies in the new California Health Benefit Exchange marketplace under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010.

Nadereh Pourat, Ana E. Martinez, Gerald F. Kominski

This policy brief finds that about 2.13 million nonelderly Californians who were uninsured for all or part of 2009 are newly-eligible for Medi-Cal under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein

This policy brief examines teen participation in school physical education and finds that in California, more than 1.3 ...

Ulrike Boehmer, et al.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations are not part of cancer surveillance, resulting in scarce information about the cancer survivorship of these populations.

David Grant, Susan Scott, J. Michael Brick, E. Richard Brown

U.S. telephone survey response rates have declined over the last 20 years. How then do health surveys like the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) ensure that the data they collect remain representative? In an article in the journal Survey Practice, staff from CHIS and the National Cancer Institute (an important funder of CHIS) describe a range of methods employed to maintain representativeness, including collecting and expanding a cell phone sample, offering small, prepaid cash incentives to survey participants, as well as mix-mode administration approaches, such as both calling and mailing the survey.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Claudie Dandurand Bolduc

Underinsurance is most commonly defined as the state in which people with medical coverage are still exposed to financial risk.

Christine E. Grella, Susan D. Cochran, Lisa Greenwell, Vickie M. Mays

Research has shown that sexual minority groups have higher prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders (both mental and substance use disorders) and that they may seek treatment at higher rates than heterosexuals.

Mary C. Maslanda, Soo H. Kanga, Yifei Ma

Misunderstanding of prescription labels results in adverse drug events and non-adherence. The authors assessed the effect of limited English and other factors on prescription understanding among five ethnic groups in a controlled analysis.

Judith Bell, Mary Lee

An African American baby in the predominantly low-income neighborhood of West Oakland is 1.5 times more likely to be born premature than a white infant in the Oakland Hills, 7 times more likely to be born into poverty, and 4 times more likely to have parents with only a high school education.

Cecily Luncheon, Matthew M. Zack

Several studies suggest that physical activity may improve health-related quality of life. Other studies have shown that participation in physical activity differs among women of different racial/ethnic groups.

Daphna Gans, Anna Davis, Christina M. Kinane, Gerald F. Kominski

California's developmental disability services system is currently facing severe budget reductions as part of Governor Brown's efforts to close the state's budget gap.

Daisy C. Carreon, Andrew Noymer

The double jeopardy hypothesis posits that racial minority elderly suffer a double disadvantage to health due to the interactive effects of age and race.

Steven P. Wallace, Susan D. Cochran, Eva Durazo, Chandra L. Ford

Research on the health of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults generally overlooks the chronic conditions that are the most common health concerns of older adults.

Dara H. Sorkin, Hannah Nguyen, Quyen Ngo-Metzger

Asian Americans represent a mix of cultures and immigration experiences, which may put them differentially at risk for mental health problems.

Robert Kaplan

More is spent on end-of-life care in Los Angeles County than in San Diego County. But is that care any better? Not according to a new analysis in this article for the Journal of Palliative Medicine by Robert Kaplan, a professor in the UCLA School of Public Health (and soon to be head of the NIH's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research).

Mitchell H. Katz, Tangerine M. Brigham

The rest of the nation can learn something about preparing for the profound changes to come under health reform from the City of San Francisco.

Lu Shi, Yuping Mao

Using the adolescent sample of 2005 California Health Interview Survey (n = 4029), the authors explored the association between adolescent smoking and daily screen time.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

Almost 4.7 million nonelderly adults and children of the seven million Californians who were uninsured for all or part of 2009 will be eligible for insurance as a result of last year's health care reform legislation, according to this policy brief, which uses data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey.

Ying-Ying Meng, Janet M. Coffman, Jay C. Ripps, Chankyu Lee, Gerald F. Kominski

In 2008, California became the first state to mandate that private insurers pay for HIV testing even when it's not related to a patient's primary diagnosis during a medical visit.

Feng Zhou, Gerald F. Kominski, et al.

To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV.

Janice Louie, Meileen Acosta, et al.

Many critically ill patients with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (2009 H1N1) infection were noted to be obese, but whether obesity, rather than its associated co-morbidities, is an independent risk factor for severe infection is unknown.

Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski, Jas Nihalani, Romni Neiman, Gail Bolan

How can HMOs increase screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), a readily treatable infection that affects an estimated 2.8 ...

Antronette Yancey, David Grant, Samantha Kurosky, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Ritesh Mistry

Using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, the authors studied the relationship between role model presence, type of role model, and various health-risk and health-protective behaviors among California adolescents.

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Children Now

This report from Children Now breaks new ground by providing The Children's Agenda, which details the top ten high-priority, high-impact actions California's policymakers should take to reverse the declining status of children.

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Kathryn G. Kietzman, Steven P. Wallace, Eva Durazo, Jacqueline Torres, Anne Soon Choi, A. E. Benjamin, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

Low-income older Californians with disabilities depend on a variety of public programs to remain in their own homes.

Kristina M. Cordasco, Ninez A. Ponce, Melissa S. Gatchell, Brandon Traudt, Jose J. Escarce

Do limited English skills affect the ability of uninsured Californians to access health care at a safety net clinic? Yes, say Center Faculty Associate Ninez A.

Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Maas Jan Heineman, Onyebuchi A. Arah

The authors of this study examine whether teaching qualities of faculty were associated with their being seen as a specialist role model by residents and investigate whether those associations differed across residency years and specialties.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment et al

California's socially and economically disadvantaged residents are already experiencing disproportionately greater impacts on their health and well-being than others as a result of climate change, concludes California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in a new report, which uses data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

S. Wang, J. Quan, A. M. Kanaya, A. Fernandez

Prior studies comparing U.S.-born and foreign-born Asian Americans have shown that birth in the U.S. conveys greater risk of obesity.

Dorothy Etimani Schmidt-Vaivao, Genesis Lutu, et al.

Samoans experience among the worst five-year breast cancer survival rates in the U.S., largely due to late stage diagnosis.

Joelle Wolstein, Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey

Although asthma occurs among Californians at all socio-economic levels, it disproportionately affects low-income Californians, who miss more days of work and school, are more likely to have frequent asthma symptoms, and are more likely to go to the emergency department or be hospitalized for asthma care.

Health in All Policies Task Force, et al.

Local produce is good for our health — and California's agricultural industry. Biking to work is a great workout — and it reduces the state's greenhouse gas levels.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby, E. Richard Brown

In this brief, the authors explore whether instituting 12-month continuous eligibility in California's Medicaid program for children (Medi-Cal) has directly benefited enrollees by improving their process of care.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

Lack of job-based health insurance does not affect just workers, but entire families who depend on job-based coverage for their health care.

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

This fact sheet by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network provides recommendations to ensure all Californians who are eligible for health coverage are enrolled, have equal access to care and receive quality services.

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Maren T. Scheuner, Timothy S. McNeel, Andrew N. Freedman

PURPOSE: Family history guides cancer prevention and genetic testing. We sought to estimate the population prevalence of increased familial risk for breast, ovarian, endometrial, prostate, and colorectal cancers and hereditary cancer syndromes that include these cancers.

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Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Hai Fang, Jeremiah Garza, Olivia Carter-Pokras, Steven P. Wallace, John A. Rizzo, Alexander N. Ortega

Does lack of documentation keep Mexican immigrants from seeing the doctor? Possibly. In this article, the authors analyze data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (2,600 documented and 1,038 undocumented immigrants) to identify differences in health care access and utilization among Mexican immigrants by documentation status.

Tracy C. Harjo, Alejandro Perez, Victor Lopez, Nathan D. Wong

California's American Indians are more likely to have diabetes than all other ethnic and racial groups, according to this article in the journal Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda

This study aims to increase overall understanding of health determinants, access and use of health services, and the health conditions of adult Mexican-born women in the U.S.

Delight E. Satter, Dylan H. Roby, Lauren M. Smith, Steven P. Wallace

This report examines both the health and economic costs of commercial tobacco use and secondhand smoke inhalation in the American Indian and Alaska Native communities in California.

Dylan H. Roby, Gina Nicholson, Gerald F. Kominski

This report provides a pre-reform snapshot of health status and utilization characteristics of Californians who were either enrolled in commercial or public managed care plans or who were uninsured in 2007.

Nadereh Pourat, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nancy Breen, Alek Sripipatana

Asian Americans have the lowest rates of cancer screening of all ethnic groups. Reasons for these low rates of screening frequently include low acculturation levels.

Steven P. Wallace, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Susan E. Smith

This policy brief uses 2009 data to calculate the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), a measure of the basic cost of living for seniors in all 58 California counties.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant

Using data from adolescents who responded to the California Health Interview Survey between 2001 and 2007, the authors studied income-specific trends in obesity rates among a diverse population of California adolescents.

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Ruopeng An, Roland Sturm

The state's Mental Health Parity Act of 2001 required increased benefits for privately insured Californians.

Rashmi Shetgiri, Sheryl Kataoka, Ninez A. Ponce, Glenn Flores, Paul J. Chung

The factors associated with teen violence – and how to stop it – are examined in a new journal article in Academic Pediatrics that uses data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Eunice C. Wong, Grant N. Marshall, Terry L. Schell, Marc N. Elliott, Susan H. Babey, Katrin Hambarsoomians

How does the health status of Cambodian refugees compare to that of similar non-refugee Asian immigrants and the general population in California? Center Research Scientist Susan Babey and colleagues documented the health status, physical health functioning and disability of Cambodian refugees through 490 face-to-face interviews conducted with a sample of households from the Cambodian community in Long Beach, Calif., ...

Dylan H. Roby, Nadereh Pourat, Matthew J. Pirritano, Shelley M. Vrungos, Himmet Dajee, Dan Castillo, Gerald F. Kominski

In this journal article, the authors examine the Medical Services Initiative program — a safety net-based system of care — in Orange County, which assigned uninsured, low-income residents to a patient-centered medical home.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Malia Jones

This policy brief provides an overview of diabetes and obesity prevalence in California using the most recent data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey and comparing it to data from past surveys to examine trends over time.

The ...

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Y. Jenny Chia, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby

This fact sheet presents county-by-county estimates of the number of California residents who have lost health insurance during the economic downturn.

David Grant, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, William M. Sribney, May Aydin, E. Richard Brown

This policy brief, based on data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), presents a comprehensive overview of mental health status and service use in California, and highlights differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, income and insurance status.

Nadereh Pourat, Len Finocchio

In this Health Affairs journal article, the authors use data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine disparities in the rate of visits to dental health professionals by children enrolled in both public and private insurance programs.

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Steven P. Wallace, Ming Lee, Rachel Price, Pauline Abbott, Janet C. Frank

This issue brief describes how state budget cuts to California State University system are affecting gerontological education – in the form of fewer classes, fewer faculty and less administrative support for those faculty.

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Gail G. Harrison, M. Christina Tirado, Osman M. Galal

The Millennium Development Goals aimed to cut severe poverty and hunger in half by the year 2015. But the recent rise in staple food prices and global economic crisis make it clear that these goals will not be met and that recent gains in mitigating malnutrition are being erased.

Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace, Andrea N. Garcia, Lauren M. Smith

This report examines the health risks, health status and health services use of the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) elders in California, home to one of the nation's largest populations of AIAN elderly.

Ying-Ying Meng, Nadereh Pourat, Robert G. Cosway, Gerald F. Kominski

In this journal article, Center researchers Meng, Pourat and Kominksi and their co-author examine the impacts on coverage, utilization, and costs of a California bill that requires health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to expand coverage for pediatric asthma self-management educational services.

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Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This policy brief provides an overview of uninsured women ages 18–64 in California, examining subgroups of women at higher risk of being without coverage and looking at family incomes of uninsured women and at uninsured rates across counties.

Ninez A. Ponce, Susan D. Cochran, Jennifer C. Pizer, Vickie M. Mays

In this Health Affairs journal article, data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) are used to find that gay and lesbian couples are far less likely than heterosexual couples to have job-based health insurance.

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Sunghee Lee, J. Michael Brick, E. Richard Brown, David Grant

In this Health Services Research journal article, the authors examined the effect of including cell-phone numbers in a traditional landline random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey: the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

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Steven P. Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Eva Durazo, Rosana Leos

This policy brief examines the growing rate of repeated falls among senior citizens, comparing data from the 2003 and 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This fact sheet provides an overview of selected health issues, including high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, overweight and obesity and cancer screening, among nonelderly women (ages 18–64) in California.

Lake Research Partners, American Viewpoint

On behalf of The SCAN Foundation and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Lake Research Partners and American Viewpoint conducted a statewide survey among 1,218 registered voters in California ages 40 and older.

Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, May Jawad Aydin, Y. Jenny Chia, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto

Nearly 1 in 6 adults in California, about 3.7 million persons, report experiencing physical intimate partner violence (IPV) as adults, according to the authors of this policy brief.

Linda Delp, Steven P. Wallace, Jeanne Geiger-Brown, Carles Muntaner

The authors of this article studied determinants of job satisfaction among home care workers by analyzing data collected from telephone interviews with 1,614 Los Angeles home care workers on the state payroll in 2003.

Abuse ...

Jason E. Owen, Michael S. Goldstein, Jennifer H. Lee, Nancy Breen, Julia Rowland

This purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of online support group (OSG) use by those with chronic health problems and to identify characteristics associated with use of OSGs and face-to-face groups.

Jan M. Eberth, et al.

Breast cancer incidence and mortality have been increasing among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women, and their survival rate is the lowest of all racial/ethnic groups.

S. W. Ng, S. Zaghloul, H. I. Ali, G. Harrison, B. M. Popkin

This paper reviews studies on the prevalence of overweight, obesity and related nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Zachary L. Baron, Dylan H. Roby, Melissa A. Rodgers

This issue brief finds that the Senate health care reform bill and the reconciliation bill would lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in California, ensure greater access to primary care and preventive services, protect the solvency of Medicare, increase the options for long-term care, and protect the benefits of seniors eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal.

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Camilia Lui, Steven P. Wallace

These findings from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) provide information to help counties and local health systems identify areas with high rates of chronic conditions and assist them in meeting the needs of chronically ill patients.

The ...

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby

Nearly two million Californians lost their health insurance during 2008 and 2009 – years characterized by a deep recession and mass layoffs – bringing the total number of uninsured in the state to more than 8 million, according to this policy brief that draws upon both 2009 and adjusted 2007 data.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The 2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report published in March 2010 by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) makes extensive use of California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data, in part because CHIS provides robust samples of Asian and Latino ethnic groups that are unavailable in national surveys, and also provides cutting-edge measures related to ethnicity, immigration and culture.

Steven P. Wallace, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Eva Durazo, A. E. Benjamin, Nadereh Pourat

In this "Policy Note" analysis paper, the authors examine the likely impact of budget cuts to the state's community-based and home care services on low-income older and disabled Californians.

Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This policy brief examines a range of health issues and trends among California's approximately three million women ages 50-64, an age group that often faces new and accelerated chronic health conditions.

California Department of Public Health, California Office of Binational Border Health

Hispanics living near the Mexican border were less likely to be able to afford dental care — San Diego County (7.9 ...

Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace

As more American Indians and Alaska Natives (American Indian or AIAN) live to adulthood and old age, the elderly population aged 55 and older is projected to increase from 5.5% ...

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

Organized provider networks have been developed as a method of achieving efficiencies in the delivery of health care, and to reduce problems such as limited access to specialty and tertiary care, fragmentation and duplication of services, low-quality care and poor patient outcomes.

Jeroen van Meijgaard, Jonathan E. Fielding, Gerald F. Kominski

A comprehensive population health-forecasting model has the potential to interject new and valuable information about the future health status of the population based on current conditions, socioeconomic and demographic trends and potential changes in policies and programs.

Sunghee Lee, Delight E. Satter, Ninez A. Ponce

This article examines how different racial classifications affect survey weights and consequently change health-related indicators for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population in California.

Nadereh Pourat, Gina Nicholson

This policy brief examines the number of children in California who miss school due to lack of affordable dental care.

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Erin Peckham, Roberta Wyn

This policy brief examines the health disparities that low income nonelderly adult women in California encounter across a wide range of measures.

Janni J. Kinsler, Sung-Jae Lee, Jennifer N. Sayles, Peter A. Newman, Allison L. Diamant, William E. Cunningham

HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects Hispanics in the United States, a diverse and heterogeneous population.

Paul P. Lee, William E. Cunningham, Terry T. Nakazono, Ron D. Hays

Researchers study the associations of eye diseases and visual symptoms with the most widely used health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) generic profile measure.