Journal Article
Although socioeconomic disparities in outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD) have been well studied, little is known about relationship between severity of PAD and socioeconomic status. The objective of this study was to examine this relationship. Patients who had operations for severe PAD (rest pain or tissue loss) were identified in the National Inpatient Sample, 2005–2014.
Journal Article
Although socioeconomic disparities in outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD) have been well studied, little is known about relationship between severity of PAD and socioeconomic status. The objective of this study was to examine this relationship. Patients who had operations for severe PAD (rest pain or tissue loss) were identified in the National Inpatient Sample, 2005–2014.
Journal Article
Although socioeconomic disparities in outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD) have been well studied, little is known about relationship between severity of PAD and socioeconomic status. The objective of this study was to examine this relationship. Patients who had operations for severe PAD (rest pain or tissue loss) were identified in the National Inpatient Sample, 2005–2014.
Journal Article
Although socioeconomic disparities in outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD) have been well studied, little is known about relationship between severity of PAD and socioeconomic status. The objective of this study was to examine this relationship. Patients who had operations for severe PAD (rest pain or tissue loss) were identified in the National Inpatient Sample, 2005–2014.
Journal Article
This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health. According to 2021 California Health Interview Survey data, nearly one in two Latino/x adolescents and nearly two in five California adolescents overall were overweight or obese. One in five Latino/x and Black children was overweight for their age. Black children were more likely to have asthma and had much higher rates of asthma-related ED visits than children of other races/ethnicities.
Journal Article
This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health. According to 2021 California Health Interview Survey data, nearly one in two Latino/x adolescents and nearly two in five California adolescents overall were overweight or obese. One in five Latino/x and Black children was overweight for their age. Black children were more likely to have asthma and had much higher rates of asthma-related ED visits than children of other races/ethnicities.
Journal Article
This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health. According to 2021 California Health Interview Survey data, nearly one in two Latino/x adolescents and nearly two in five California adolescents overall were overweight or obese. One in five Latino/x and Black children was overweight for their age. Black children were more likely to have asthma and had much higher rates of asthma-related ED visits than children of other races/ethnicities.
Journal Article
This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health. According to 2021 California Health Interview Survey data, nearly one in two Latino/x adolescents and nearly two in five California adolescents overall were overweight or obese. One in five Latino/x and Black children was overweight for their age. Black children were more likely to have asthma and had much higher rates of asthma-related ED visits than children of other races/ethnicities.
Policy Brief
With businesses, child care centers, and schools forced to close during the pandemic stay-at-home order, millions of Californians lost critical sources of income, child care, and education in 2020. This policy brief examines the association between economic hardship, household conflict, and mental health outcomes during the pandemic using data from the 2020 CHIS.
Policy Brief
With businesses, child care centers, and schools forced to close during the pandemic stay-at-home order, millions of Californians lost critical sources of income, child care, and education in 2020. This policy brief examines the association between economic hardship, household conflict, and mental health outcomes during the pandemic using data from the 2020 CHIS.
Journal Article
To evaluate public health surveillance and monitoring systems' (PHSMS) efforts to collect, monitor, track, and analyze racism. Authors employed an environmental scan approach. They defined key questions and data to be collected, conducted a literature review, and synthesized the results by using a qualitative description approach.
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To evaluate public health surveillance and monitoring systems' (PHSMS) efforts to collect, monitor, track, and analyze racism. Authors employed an environmental scan approach. They defined key questions and data to be collected, conducted a literature review, and synthesized the results by using a qualitative description approach.
Journal Article
Standard measures of obesity, i.e., body weight and BMI, suggest that Asian American people have a lower obesity prevalence than other racial groups in the United States. However, Asian American people face a unique challenge in their pattern of adiposity with central obesity, which raises the risk for multiple comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease, at a lower BMI compared with other populations. Several organizations recommend lower BMI cutoffs for obesity in Asian people (BMI ≥25.0 or ≥27.5 kg/m2) instead of the standard ≥30.0 kg/m2 threshold. The risks of obesity and related comorbidities in this population are further influenced by diet, physical activity, perceptions of health, and access to information and therapies.
Journal Article
Standard measures of obesity, i.e., body weight and BMI, suggest that Asian American people have a lower obesity prevalence than other racial groups in the United States. However, Asian American people face a unique challenge in their pattern of adiposity with central obesity, which raises the risk for multiple comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease, at a lower BMI compared with other populations. Several organizations recommend lower BMI cutoffs for obesity in Asian people (BMI ≥25.0 or ≥27.5 kg/m2) instead of the standard ≥30.0 kg/m2 threshold. The risks of obesity and related comorbidities in this population are further influenced by diet, physical activity, perceptions of health, and access to information and therapies.
External Publication
Family child care providers in California provide early care and education out of their homes to hundreds of thousands of children. They constitute a critical component of the broader infrastructure for caring for and educating young children and enabling parents to work. Family child care providers are predominantly women of color and often in households with low income. As self-employed small business owners, they are not offered job-based coverage unless it is through a second job or the employer of a spouse or another family member. As a result, compared to other full-time workers, family child care providers are less likely to have job-based coverage and more likely to have insurance through Covered California or Medi-Cal, or to be uninsured. Many family child care providers—with or without insurance—report delaying or not getting the care they need, often due to affordability concerns.
External Publication
Family child care providers in California provide early care and education out of their homes to hundreds of thousands of children. They constitute a critical component of the broader infrastructure for caring for and educating young children and enabling parents to work. Family child care providers are predominantly women of color and often in households with low income. As self-employed small business owners, they are not offered job-based coverage unless it is through a second job or the employer of a spouse or another family member. As a result, compared to other full-time workers, family child care providers are less likely to have job-based coverage and more likely to have insurance through Covered California or Medi-Cal, or to be uninsured. Many family child care providers—with or without insurance—report delaying or not getting the care they need, often due to affordability concerns.
Journal Article
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition is designed to promote whole-person team-based and integrated care. The goal of this paper was to assess changes in staffing infrastructure that promoted team-based and integrated care delivery before and after PCMH recognition in Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health centers (HCs).
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Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition is designed to promote whole-person team-based and integrated care. The goal of this paper was to assess changes in staffing infrastructure that promoted team-based and integrated care delivery before and after PCMH recognition in Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health centers (HCs).
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert immense societal impacts, with recent data showing inequitable distribution of consequences among racial and ethnic groups. The objective of this study was to assess associations between COVID-related work stressors and psychological distress, with special emphasis on differences by race and ethnicity. Data were from the population-based California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2020. Associations of individual and cumulative work stressors, including job loss, reduced work hours, and working from home, with psychological distress in 12,113 workers were examined and conducted for racial and ethnic subgroups.
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert immense societal impacts, with recent data showing inequitable distribution of consequences among racial and ethnic groups. The objective of this study was to assess associations between COVID-related work stressors and psychological distress, with special emphasis on differences by race and ethnicity. Data were from the population-based California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2020. Associations of individual and cumulative work stressors, including job loss, reduced work hours, and working from home, with psychological distress in 12,113 workers were examined and conducted for racial and ethnic subgroups.