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Nearly two-thirds of Latinx LGBT immigrants without Green Cards live in poverty. Using data from the California Health Interview Survey, researchers examined the demographic, socioeconomic, and health characteristics of Latinx LGBT immigrants. Results show that Latinx LGBT immigrants without Green Cards are older, have less education, and have fewer economic resources than U.S.-born Latinx LGBT people.

California’s population is rapidly aging, and the over-60 population is growing racially and ethnically diverse faster than any other age group. By 2030, it is projected that one in four Californians will be an older adult. CHCF is funding research to understand  ... the experiences and health-related outcomes of older adults and adults with disabilities in California who need home and community-based long-term services to maintain their independence and quality of life (using data from the Long-Term Services and Supports follow-on survey of the California Health Interview Survey).

“Using California survey data, we found that childhood lifetime asthma prevalence varied among Asian American ethnic groups, with the lowest prevalence in Korean American children and the highest prevalence in Filipino American children,” said [Meng] Chen, [MD and clinical assistant professor of allergy and immunology at Stanford University].

The situation worsened after the pandemic: in 2021 the California Health Interview Survey, the state’s largest survey, estimated that 38 percent of young Californians aged 18 to 30 had not had sexual partners in the previous year: a choice, rather than contingency from quarantine, if the following year the percentage stood at 22 percent.

“Using California survey data, we found that childhood lifetime asthma prevalence varied among Asian American ethnic groups, with the lowest prevalence in Korean American children and the highest prevalence in Filipino American children,” Meng Chen, MD, clinical assistant professor of allergy and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, told Healio.

The California Department of Health Care Services on Tuesday launched two new health services offering free telehealth to families with children up to age 25. According to the California Health Interview Survey, one of the largest state health surveys in the country, about one-third of California teens experienced serious psychological distress between 2019 and 2021, with a 20% increase in adolescent suicides.

The new UCLA policy brief shows significant mental health disparities among immigrant groups in California. Recent immigrants residing in the U.S. for less than five years experienced a 140% increase in severe psychological distress, from 5% (2015–17) to 12% (2019–21).

In San Francisco, the share of people 65 and older who said they'd used cannabis within the last month increased from 10% in 2017 (a year after marijuana was legalized in California) to 13.7% in 2022, according to the latest data from the California Health Interview Survey.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies are widely known to have harmful impacts on mental health, but a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has revealed large disparities in rates of serious psychological distress across immigrant subgroups in California.

Wellvolution, a digital health platform by Blue Shield of California, will now be more inclusive and accessible for Spanish speakers ... Hispanic communities in California are more likely to have difficulty finding a primary care doctor or specialist than other groups, likely due to language barriers, according to data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research as compiled by The California Health Care Almanac.