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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. The study examined how a lack of health insurance affected workers and families who depend on job-based coverage during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
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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. The study examined how a lack of health insurance affected workers and families who depend on job-based coverage during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
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Authors evaluated whether breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) disparities varied by family history risk using a large, multiethnic population-based survey.
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Authors evaluated whether breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) disparities varied by family history risk using a large, multiethnic population-based survey.
Policy Brief
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. These exclusions directly limit coverage options for noncitizen children. And immigrant parents, potentially misinterpreting eligibility requirements for these new programs, may not enroll their citizen children.
Policy Brief
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. These exclusions directly limit coverage options for noncitizen children. And immigrant parents, potentially misinterpreting eligibility requirements for these new programs, may not enroll their citizen children.
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While it is clear that self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination is related to illness, there are challenges in measuring self-reported discrimination or unfair treatment. In the present study, the authors evaluate the psychometric properties of a self-reported instrument across racial/ethnic groups in a population-based sample, and test and interpret findings from applying two different widely-used approaches to asking about discrimination and unfair treatment.
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While it is clear that self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination is related to illness, there are challenges in measuring self-reported discrimination or unfair treatment. In the present study, the authors evaluate the psychometric properties of a self-reported instrument across racial/ethnic groups in a population-based sample, and test and interpret findings from applying two different widely-used approaches to asking about discrimination and unfair treatment.
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Do limited English skills affect the ability of uninsured Californians to access health care at a safety net clinic? Yes, says Center Faculty Associate Ninez A. Ponce and colleagues in a Dec. 18, 2010, article in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Access problems grow even worse for this group the farther they lived from safety net clinics.
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Do limited English skills affect the ability of uninsured Californians to access health care at a safety net clinic? Yes, says Center Faculty Associate Ninez A. Ponce and colleagues in a Dec. 18, 2010, article in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Access problems grow even worse for this group the farther they lived from safety net clinics.
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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). Center Faculty Associate Ninez Ponce and co-authors found that destructive behavior such as drug or alcohol abuse, poverty and even depression can factor into teen violence.
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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). Center Faculty Associate Ninez Ponce and co-authors found that destructive behavior such as drug or alcohol abuse, poverty and even depression can factor into teen violence.
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In this Health Affairs journal article, data from the CHIS are used to find that gay and lesbian couples are far less likely than heterosexual couples to have job-based health insurance. Authors found that partnered gay men in California are only 42 percent as likely as married heterosexual men to get employer-sponsored dependent health insurance.
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In this Health Affairs journal article, data from the CHIS are used to find that gay and lesbian couples are far less likely than heterosexual couples to have job-based health insurance. Authors found that partnered gay men in California are only 42 percent as likely as married heterosexual men to get employer-sponsored dependent health insurance.
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Migrant studies of physical activity (PA) can provide insight into the prevention of chronic disease. It is unclear, however, whether PA increases or decreases the longer migrants live in their host country. In the U.S., studies on immigrants’ length of residence in the U.S. and PA are inconclusive and many studies do not adequately consider the role of socioeconomic status (SES).
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Migrant studies of physical activity (PA) can provide insight into the prevention of chronic disease. It is unclear, however, whether PA increases or decreases the longer migrants live in their host country. In the U.S., studies on immigrants’ length of residence in the U.S. and PA are inconclusive and many studies do not adequately consider the role of socioeconomic status (SES).
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Objectives: We examined the association of racial discrimination and limited English proficiency with health-related quality of life among Asian Americans in California. Methods: We studied Chinese (n = 2576), Filipino (n = 1426), Japanese (n = 833), Korean (n = 1128), South Asian (n = 822), and Vietnamese (n = 938) respondents to the California Health Interview Survey in 2003 and 2005.
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Objectives: We examined the association of racial discrimination and limited English proficiency with health-related quality of life among Asian Americans in California. Methods: We studied Chinese (n = 2576), Filipino (n = 1426), Japanese (n = 833), Korean (n = 1128), South Asian (n = 822), and Vietnamese (n = 938) respondents to the California Health Interview Survey in 2003 and 2005.
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Perceived discrimination is a psychosocial stressor that plays a role in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in self-reported physical and mental health.
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Perceived discrimination is a psychosocial stressor that plays a role in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in self-reported physical and mental health.