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Food insecurity among Latinos in Los Angeles County

Joelle Wolstein May, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was interviewed on Univision 34 in Los Angeles, about what California Health Interview Survey data revealed about food insecurity among Latinx people in Los Angeles County and throughout California.
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Capital & Main

The least-bad option: A county sales tax to save California health clinics

California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) data showing that 3 million fewer Californians are expected to be enrolled in Medi-Cal by 2028 was cited in this story.
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U.S. News & World Report

Reckoning with state and federal cuts, L.A. safety-net clinics push for a new tax

Enrollment in Medi-Cal could drop by 3 million by 2028 as a result of the federal and state spending cuts, according to an analysis by CalSIM, a joint project of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center. Originally published by KFF Health News.
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Capital & Main

May 05, 2025

How did farmers respond when the Trump administration suddenly stopped paying them to help feed needy Californians?

This column cites data from the 2023 California Health Interview Survey that showed that nine of 20 adults in the state with low incomes reported “limited, uncertain or inconsistent” access to food. Also picked up by MSN.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

San Diego Business Journal

Apr 02, 2025

Care Solace aiding expanded access to mental health care (paywall)

The article cites California Health Interview Survey data that showed more low-income adults in California reported serious psychological distress compared to high-income adults.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

Washington Blade

Mar 31, 2025

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, we can’t allow this administration to erase us

This commentary lauds the longtime work of the California Health Interview Survey, among others, in data collection and preservation about trans people and their health.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

TechTarget

Mar 21, 2025

Demographic disparities persist in video visit utilization (registration required)

This article cites California Health Interview Survey data in a study that compared how much different groups of patients used telehealth and rate the quality of video visits compared to in-person visits.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

MB News (Manhattan Beach)

Feb 24, 2025

How Are We Doing, Manhattan Beach?

Data from the California Health Interview Survey was used in compiling the 2025-2028 Beach Cities Health District Community Health Report, which examined health and well-being in the cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

TechTarget (registration required)

Feb 21, 2025

Non-English speakers face multiple barriers to video visits

This story cited 2021 California Health Interview Survey data showing that that patients with limited English proficiency were less likely to report telehealth use and more likely to rate video visit experience as worse than in-person appointments.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

Capital & Main

Feb 18, 2025

The Radio Show Taking on California’s Youth Mental Health Crisis

This story cites 2019 California Health Interview Survey data about differences between girls' and boys' experiences with serious psychological distress.
Features: D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Mental Health Program

KUSI (Fox 5, San Diego)

Feb 18, 2025

Alarming health disparities found within San Diego’s AANHPI community: report

30% of Asian Americans in California reported having difficulty accessing health services, according to California Health Interview Survey data used in a 2024 report by AAPI Data and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project

Orange County Register (paywall)

Feb 13, 2025

My middle-schooler started Ozempic. I am not a failure at parenting!

California Health Interview Survey data about adolescent obesity was cited in this column the value of prescription weight loss drugs in combatting a serious health problem facing youth.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)