California Health Interview Survey: Essential Data for Building Healthier California Communities
Published Date: December 01, 2004
This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in self-reported poor/fair health status, asthma and hypertension rates among uninsured Californians for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts. The first-of-its-kind sub-county data in this publication are useful for policy makers, advocates and medical providers in understanding the burden of selected access-sensitive chronic conditions in local communities across California. The rates reported in this policy brief are estimates created by a small-area methodology, based on rates from CHIS 2001 that are applied to population data from the 2000 Census and 2002 California Department of Finance. The study was funded by a grant from The California Endowment.

Publication Authors:
  • Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, PhD, MPH
  • Hongjian Yu, Ph.D.
  • Ying-Ying Meng, DrPH
  • Mona Jhawar
  • Steven P. Wallace, PhD
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Authors
Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, PhD, MPH Ying-Ying Meng, DrPh