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Published Date: December 11, 2018
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest state health survey, continued to play a significant role in informing health policies and highlighting health issues of state and national importance in 2018. Examples:
- CHIS diabetes data on American Indian/Alaska Natives to illustrate health disparities in testimony about funding of the Indian Health Service before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.
- Analysis on prediabetes based on CHIS was used to inform a California law that requires healthier default beverage choices for kids’ meals served at restaurants.
- CalSIM, the microsimulation model that uses CHIS data, provided supporting evidence in analysis of two California bills (SB974 and AB2965) that aimed to expand Medi-Cal to adults in the state, including the undocumented population.
- CHIS survey questions were expanded to gauge what long-term supports are being used by the state’s elders to help guide future state policy.
- Our analysis of ‘public charge’ rule changes, which includes CHIS data, were cited in official comments by U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and Nanette Diaz Barragán, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and advocacy groups such as the California Latino Legislative Caucus, The California Endowment, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Health Access and Western Center on Law & Poverty. State Assemblyman Rob Bonta cited data from our analysis in a Capitol Weekly op-ed article.
Publication Authors:
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research