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Diane Weiner, Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace

This fact sheet describes diabetes prevalence among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, including risk factors and access to care barriers in California, the state with the largest number of AIANs.

D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights results from a survey of a broad sample of the California legislature on their data and information needs, as well as their familiarity and use of various economic measures.

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Jihey Lee, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

This study examines health-risk behaviors among "Baby Boomer" caregivers and non-caregivers and uses data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey of the state's non-institutionalized population provided individual-level, caregiving, and health behavior characteristics for 5,688 informal caregivers and 12,941 non-caregivers.

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Steven P. Wallace

This fact sheet provides data on the differences in socio-economic status of California's estimated 6 million caregivers — individuals who are providing care to a family member or friend with a long-term illness or disability.

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Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Jie Chen

Latino immigrants spend less on health care than Latinos who are naturalized or U.S.-born and whites but the gap starts to narrow as assimilation occurs.

Lauren M. Smith, Delight E. Satter

This fact sheet summarizes the likely impact of national health care reform (the Affordable Care Act) on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Dara H. Sorkin, John Billimek

A study in the journal Health Education and Behavior uses California Health Interview Survey data to find that efforts to intervene with people who are overweight or obese need to consider their racial/ethnic backgrounds and develop culturally-tailored interventions.

Carrie L. Johnson, Daniel L. Dickerson, Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace

This fact sheet describes a range of behavioral health issues that affect American Indian and Alaska Native populations in disproportionate numbers relative to the general population.

Daphna Gans, Christina Kinane, Greg Watson, Dylan H. Roby, Jack Needleman, Dave Graham-Squire, Gerald F. Kominski, Ken Jacobs, David Dexter, Ellen Wu

This joint publication between the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network examines likely enrollment in California's health care coverage expansion programs and finds that language barriers could deter more than 100,000 Californians from enrolling in the state's Health Benefit Exchange.

Delight E. Satter, Dylan H. Roby, Kathalena Avendano, Jackie Kaslow, Steven P. Wallace

The cost of smoking has been explored for residents of the U.S. living in several states. Recent evidence has indicated that the prevalence and cost of smoking are associated with racial and ethnic groups.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas, Ken Jacobs, Dylan H. Roby, Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski

This comprehensive, biennial report uses the latest data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to paint a comprehensive picture of health insurance trends, access, and coverage status for California's more than 37 million residents.

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Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Ken Jacobs, Greg Watson, Dave Graham-Squire, Christina M. Kinane, Daphna Gans, Jack Needleman

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that almost all Americans purchase some type of health insurance coverage has been controversial.

Hee Yun Lee, et al.

Although some Asian American groups are receiving colorectal cancer screenings at relatively high rates, other Asian groups are not, according to an article in the Ethnicity & Health journal.

California Adolescent Health Collaborative

Young Latinos living in several of California's rural counties have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies in the state.

Kathryn G. Kietzman, Eva Durazo, Jacqueline Torres, Anne Soon Choi, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief presents findings from a yearlong study that closely followed a small but typical set of older Californians with disabilities who depend on fragile arrangements of paid public programs and unpaid help to live safely and independently at home.

Ken Jacobs, Dave Graham-Squire, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, Christina M. Kinane, Jack Needleman, Greg Watson, Daphna Gans

This joint publication of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research looks at The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) mandate to offer premium subsidies to help eligible individuals and their families purchase insurance coverage when affordable job-based coverage is not available.

Angie Denisse Otiniano, Amy Carroll-Scott, Peggy Toy, Steven P. Wallace

Promotores — community health workers who educate hard-to-reach Latinos on best health practices — have few opportunities for research training and professional development.

Roberta Wyn, Elaine Zahnd

The proportion of nonelderly California women ages 18-64 with no health insurance coverage grew to nearly one in four between 2007 and 2009, the years right before and during the economic recession, according to a new policy brief from the Public Health Institute (PHI) that uses data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant, Amanda Bloom, Harold Goldstein

This joint study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) finds that the percentage of overweight and obese children in the state dropped 1.1 ...

David Grant, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, May Aydin, Leanne Streja, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Beena Patel, Julia Caldwell

This report and related fact sheet provides some of the first comprehensive data ever collected on the mental health of California's adult population.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, Livier Cabezas, E. Richard Brown

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.

Onyebuchi A. Arah, et al.

Where diabetes treatment is concerned, what constitutes good "quality of care"? In a new article for Health Expectations, Center Faculty Associate Onyebuchi Arah and other researchers explored which of the myriad types of examinations given to diabetes patients contributes to a better patient experience overall.

Gergana Kodjebacheva, E. Richard Brown, et al.

The majority of first graders in at least three school districts in Southern California who need eyeglasses do not have them, according to an article in the November issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

David Grant, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, May Aydin, Leanne Streja, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Beena Patel, Julia Caldwell

This fact sheet, published in conjunction with a related report on the mental health status of California's adult population, describes key definitions for "mental health need" and "mental health treatment" and provides a region and county-by-county table of the number of all adults, adults less than 200% FPL, and adults with public health insurance coverage in California with mental health needs.

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Applied Survey Research

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, Royce Park

Despite the steady decline of smoking rates in California, 224,000 children under age 12 live in homes where smoking is allowed, and another 742,000 live with an adult or adolescent smoker.

LGBT Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, Center for American Progress

The typical American family is no longer made up of married heterosexuals raising their biological children, notes a report that uses CHIS and other data to offer one of the most comprehensive portraits to date of the wide range of obstacles facing lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) families.

Camilia Lui, Steven P. Wallace

How many people with chronic conditions end up in the hospital? The answer to this question may help hospitals and health providers better target ambulatory care — the essential outpatient treatment that helps forestall costly hospitalizations.

Nadereh Pourat, Marvin Marcus

Despite a focus on preventive care, dentists still spend more time filling cavities than preventing them, according to this article by Center Director of Research Nadereh Pourat in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

This policy brief profiles California's informal caregivers -- adults who provide care to a family member or friend coping with an illness or disability.

Hai-Yen Sung, et al.

Severe stress makes smokers more likely to light up and less likely to quit, according to the authors of a new journal article in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on adolescents in San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

County of San Diego Community Health Statistics Unit

This report, compiled by the County of San Diego's Community Health Statistics Unit, provides an extensive list of health indicators on children in San Diego collected by the 2005, 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Carol Bradner, et al.

Objective: To examine the relationship between BMI status (normal, overweight, and obese) and preventive screening among adolescents at their last checkup.

Lake Research Partners, American Viewpoint

On behalf of The SCAN Foundation and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Lake Research Partners and American Viewpoint conducted a statewide survey among 1,490 registered voters in California ages 40 and older.

Elaine Zahnd, May Aydin, David Grant, Sue Holtby

This policy brief presents findings on the linkages between intimate partner violence (IPV), emotional health and substance use among adults ages 18-65 in California.

Jacob Dumez, Henoch Derbew

The longstanding "wealth gap" between people of color and whites has actually worsened in recent decades.

Helen Lee, Shannon McConville

The Public Policy Institute of California released a comprehensive report on the characteristics of uninsured Californians likely to become eligible for Medi-Cal under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant

This policy brief examines the connection between retail food environments and dietary behaviors and health outcomes among California teenagers.

Giyeon Kim, et al.

This journal article used data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine the health status, health service use and barriers to care experienced by Latino and Asian immigrants aged 60 and older.

Steven P. Wallace (Guest Editor)

As America both ages and becomes more ethnically diverse, how can gerontologists and other researchers ensure that their studies and science account for this diversity? Center Associate Director Steven Wallace, a noted authority on elder health, was asked by the leading journal The Gerontologist to be the guest editor of a specially-themed June supplement on just this topic.

Eva Durazo, Melissa R. Jones, Steven P. Wallace, Jessica Van Arsdale, May Aydin, Connie Stewart

This policy brief examines the health of rural elders and, by contrast, their urban counterparts, and finds that both groups are more likely to be unhealthy than suburban older adults.

Ninez A. Ponce, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

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.

Women's Fund of Monterey County

Poverty, obstacles to education, disparities and safety are all concerns that challenge the progress of women and girls in Monterey County, according to The Community Foundation of Monterey County in a report that uses CHIS data.

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities et al

Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender individuals (LGBTs) are becoming more visible in society, but where is the data to help researchers and clinicians understand their health needs? A new report by The National Academies Press assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations and notes that the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is one of the few sources of data on LGBs in particular.

Ulrike Boehmer, et al.

Are younger gays and lesbians more at risk of binge drinking, smoking and other unhealthy behaviors? Not necessarily, say the authors of this journal article in the American Journal of Public Health.

Nadereh Pourat, Christina M. Kinane, Gerald F. Kominski

This policy brief finds that about 1.71 million nonelderly Californians were uninsured for all or part of 2009 and are estimated to be eligible to participate and receive subsidies in the new California Health Benefit Exchange marketplace under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010.

Nadereh Pourat, Ana E. Martinez, Gerald F. Kominski

This policy brief finds that about 2.13 million nonelderly Californians who were uninsured for all or part of 2009 are newly-eligible for Medi-Cal under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein

This policy brief examines teen participation in school physical education and finds that in California, more than 1.3 ...

Ulrike Boehmer, et al.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations are not part of cancer surveillance, resulting in scarce information about the cancer survivorship of these populations.

David Grant, Susan Scott, J. Michael Brick, E. Richard Brown

U.S. telephone survey response rates have declined over the last 20 years. How then do health surveys like the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) ensure that the data they collect remain representative? In an article in the journal Survey Practice, staff from CHIS and the National Cancer Institute (an important funder of CHIS) describe a range of methods employed to maintain representativeness, including collecting and expanding a cell phone sample, offering small, prepaid cash incentives to survey participants, as well as mix-mode administration approaches, such as both calling and mailing the survey.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Claudie Dandurand Bolduc

Underinsurance is most commonly defined as the state in which people with medical coverage are still exposed to financial risk.

Christine E. Grella, Susan D. Cochran, Lisa Greenwell, Vickie M. Mays

Research has shown that sexual minority groups have higher prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders (both mental and substance use disorders) and that they may seek treatment at higher rates than heterosexuals.

Mary C. Maslanda, Soo H. Kanga, Yifei Ma

Misunderstanding of prescription labels results in adverse drug events and non-adherence. The authors assessed the effect of limited English and other factors on prescription understanding among five ethnic groups in a controlled analysis.

Judith Bell, Mary Lee

An African American baby in the predominantly low-income neighborhood of West Oakland is 1.5 times more likely to be born premature than a white infant in the Oakland Hills, 7 times more likely to be born into poverty, and 4 times more likely to have parents with only a high school education.

Cecily Luncheon, Matthew M. Zack

Several studies suggest that physical activity may improve health-related quality of life. Other studies have shown that participation in physical activity differs among women of different racial/ethnic groups.

Daphna Gans, Anna Davis, Christina M. Kinane, Gerald F. Kominski

California's developmental disability services system is currently facing severe budget reductions as part of Governor Brown's efforts to close the state's budget gap.

Daisy C. Carreon, Andrew Noymer

The double jeopardy hypothesis posits that racial minority elderly suffer a double disadvantage to health due to the interactive effects of age and race.

Steven P. Wallace, Susan D. Cochran, Eva Durazo, Chandra L. Ford

Research on the health of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults generally overlooks the chronic conditions that are the most common health concerns of older adults.

Dara H. Sorkin, Hannah Nguyen, Quyen Ngo-Metzger

Asian Americans represent a mix of cultures and immigration experiences, which may put them differentially at risk for mental health problems.

Robert Kaplan

More is spent on end-of-life care in Los Angeles County than in San Diego County. But is that care any better? Not according to a new analysis in this article for the Journal of Palliative Medicine by Robert Kaplan, a professor in the UCLA School of Public Health (and soon to be head of the NIH's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research).

Mitchell H. Katz, Tangerine M. Brigham

The rest of the nation can learn something about preparing for the profound changes to come under health reform from the City of San Francisco.

Lu Shi, Yuping Mao

Using the adolescent sample of 2005 California Health Interview Survey (n = 4029), the authors explored the association between adolescent smoking and daily screen time.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

Almost 4.7 million nonelderly adults and children of the seven million Californians who were uninsured for all or part of 2009 will be eligible for insurance as a result of last year's health care reform legislation, according to this policy brief, which uses data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey.

Ying-Ying Meng, Janet M. Coffman, Jay C. Ripps, Chankyu Lee, Gerald F. Kominski

In 2008, California became the first state to mandate that private insurers pay for HIV testing even when it's not related to a patient's primary diagnosis during a medical visit.

Feng Zhou, Gerald F. Kominski, et al.

To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV.

Janice Louie, Meileen Acosta, et al.

Many critically ill patients with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (2009 H1N1) infection were noted to be obese, but whether obesity, rather than its associated co-morbidities, is an independent risk factor for severe infection is unknown.

Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski, Jas Nihalani, Romni Neiman, Gail Bolan

How can HMOs increase screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), a readily treatable infection that affects an estimated 2.8 ...

Antronette Yancey, David Grant, Samantha Kurosky, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Ritesh Mistry

Using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, the authors studied the relationship between role model presence, type of role model, and various health-risk and health-protective behaviors among California adolescents.

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Children Now

This report from Children Now breaks new ground by providing The Children's Agenda, which details the top ten high-priority, high-impact actions California's policymakers should take to reverse the declining status of children.

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Kathryn G. Kietzman, Steven P. Wallace, Eva Durazo, Jacqueline Torres, Anne Soon Choi, A. E. Benjamin, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

Low-income older Californians with disabilities depend on a variety of public programs to remain in their own homes.

Kristina M. Cordasco, Ninez A. Ponce, Melissa S. Gatchell, Brandon Traudt, Jose J. Escarce

Do limited English skills affect the ability of uninsured Californians to access health care at a safety net clinic? Yes, say Center Faculty Associate Ninez A.

Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Maas Jan Heineman, Onyebuchi A. Arah

The authors of this study examine whether teaching qualities of faculty were associated with their being seen as a specialist role model by residents and investigate whether those associations differed across residency years and specialties.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment et al

California's socially and economically disadvantaged residents are already experiencing disproportionately greater impacts on their health and well-being than others as a result of climate change, concludes California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in a new report, which uses data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

S. Wang, J. Quan, A. M. Kanaya, A. Fernandez

Prior studies comparing U.S.-born and foreign-born Asian Americans have shown that birth in the U.S. conveys greater risk of obesity.

Dorothy Etimani Schmidt-Vaivao, Genesis Lutu, et al.

Samoans experience among the worst five-year breast cancer survival rates in the U.S., largely due to late stage diagnosis.

Joelle Wolstein, Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey

Although asthma occurs among Californians at all socio-economic levels, it disproportionately affects low-income Californians, who miss more days of work and school, are more likely to have frequent asthma symptoms, and are more likely to go to the emergency department or be hospitalized for asthma care.

Health in All Policies Task Force, et al.

Local produce is good for our health — and California's agricultural industry. Biking to work is a great workout — and it reduces the state's greenhouse gas levels.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby, E. Richard Brown

In this brief, the authors explore whether instituting 12-month continuous eligibility in California's Medicaid program for children (Medi-Cal) has directly benefited enrollees by improving their process of care.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Livier Cabezas

Lack of job-based health insurance does not affect just workers, but entire families who depend on job-based coverage for their health care.

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

This fact sheet by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network provides recommendations to ensure all Californians who are eligible for health coverage are enrolled, have equal access to care and receive quality services.

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Maren T. Scheuner, Timothy S. McNeel, Andrew N. Freedman

PURPOSE: Family history guides cancer prevention and genetic testing. We sought to estimate the population prevalence of increased familial risk for breast, ovarian, endometrial, prostate, and colorectal cancers and hereditary cancer syndromes that include these cancers.

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Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Hai Fang, Jeremiah Garza, Olivia Carter-Pokras, Steven P. Wallace, John A. Rizzo, Alexander N. Ortega

Does lack of documentation keep Mexican immigrants from seeing the doctor? Possibly. In this article, the authors analyze data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (2,600 documented and 1,038 undocumented immigrants) to identify differences in health care access and utilization among Mexican immigrants by documentation status.

Tracy C. Harjo, Alejandro Perez, Victor Lopez, Nathan D. Wong

California's American Indians are more likely to have diabetes than all other ethnic and racial groups, according to this article in the journal Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda

This study aims to increase overall understanding of health determinants, access and use of health services, and the health conditions of adult Mexican-born women in the U.S.

Delight E. Satter, Dylan H. Roby, Lauren M. Smith, Steven P. Wallace

This report examines both the health and economic costs of commercial tobacco use and secondhand smoke inhalation in the American Indian and Alaska Native communities in California.

Dylan H. Roby, Gina Nicholson, Gerald F. Kominski

This report provides a pre-reform snapshot of health status and utilization characteristics of Californians who were either enrolled in commercial or public managed care plans or who were uninsured in 2007.

Nadereh Pourat, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nancy Breen, Alek Sripipatana

Asian Americans have the lowest rates of cancer screening of all ethnic groups. Reasons for these low rates of screening frequently include low acculturation levels.

Steven P. Wallace, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Susan E. Smith

This policy brief uses 2009 data to calculate the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), a measure of the basic cost of living for seniors in all 58 California counties.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Joelle Wolstein, Allison L. Diamant

Using data from adolescents who responded to the California Health Interview Survey between 2001 and 2007, the authors studied income-specific trends in obesity rates among a diverse population of California adolescents.

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Ruopeng An, Roland Sturm

The state's Mental Health Parity Act of 2001 required increased benefits for privately insured Californians.

Rashmi Shetgiri, Sheryl Kataoka, Ninez A. Ponce, Glenn Flores, Paul J. Chung

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).

Eunice C. Wong, Grant N. Marshall, Terry L. Schell, Marc N. Elliott, Susan H. Babey, Katrin Hambarsoomians

How does the health status of Cambodian refugees compare to that of similar non-refugee Asian immigrants and the general population in California? Center Research Scientist Susan Babey and colleagues documented the health status, physical health functioning and disability of Cambodian refugees through 490 face-to-face interviews conducted with a sample of households from the Cambodian community in Long Beach, Calif., ...

Dylan H. Roby, Nadereh Pourat, Matthew J. Pirritano, Shelley M. Vrungos, Himmet Dajee, Dan Castillo, Gerald F. Kominski

In this journal article, the authors examine the Medical Services Initiative program — a safety net-based system of care — in Orange County, which assigned uninsured, low-income residents to a patient-centered medical home.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Malia Jones

This policy brief provides an overview of diabetes and obesity prevalence in California using the most recent data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey and comparing it to data from past surveys to examine trends over time.

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Shana Alex Lavarreda, Y. Jenny Chia, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby

This fact sheet presents county-by-county estimates of the number of California residents who have lost health insurance during the economic downturn.

David Grant, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, William M. Sribney, May Aydin, E. Richard Brown

This policy brief, based on data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), presents a comprehensive overview of mental health status and service use in California, and highlights differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, income and insurance status.

Nadereh Pourat, Len Finocchio

In this Health Affairs journal article, the authors use data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine disparities in the rate of visits to dental health professionals by children enrolled in both public and private insurance programs.

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Steven P. Wallace, Ming Lee, Rachel Price, Pauline Abbott, Janet C. Frank

This issue brief describes how state budget cuts to California State University system are affecting gerontological education – in the form of fewer classes, fewer faculty and less administrative support for those faculty.

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Gail G. Harrison, M. Christina Tirado, Osman M. Galal

The Millennium Development Goals aimed to cut severe poverty and hunger in half by the year 2015. But the recent rise in staple food prices and global economic crisis make it clear that these goals will not be met and that recent gains in mitigating malnutrition are being erased.

Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace, Andrea N. Garcia, Lauren M. Smith

This report examines the health risks, health status and health services use of the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) elders in California, home to one of the nation's largest populations of AIAN elderly.

Ying-Ying Meng, Nadereh Pourat, Robert G. Cosway, Gerald F. Kominski

In this journal article, Center researchers Meng, Pourat and Kominksi and their co-author examine the impacts on coverage, utilization, and costs of a California bill that requires health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to expand coverage for pediatric asthma self-management educational services.

The ...

Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This policy brief provides an overview of uninsured women ages 18–64 in California, examining subgroups of women at higher risk of being without coverage and looking at family incomes of uninsured women and at uninsured rates across counties.

Ninez A. Ponce, Susan D. Cochran, Jennifer C. Pizer, Vickie M. Mays

In this Health Affairs journal article, data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) are used to find that gay and lesbian couples are far less likely than heterosexual couples to have job-based health insurance.

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Sunghee Lee, J. Michael Brick, E. Richard Brown, David Grant

In this Health Services Research journal article, the authors examined the effect of including cell-phone numbers in a traditional landline random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey: the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

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Steven P. Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Eva Durazo, Rosana Leos

This policy brief examines the growing rate of repeated falls among senior citizens, comparing data from the 2003 and 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This fact sheet provides an overview of selected health issues, including high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, overweight and obesity and cancer screening, among nonelderly women (ages 18–64) in California.

Lake Research Partners, American Viewpoint

On behalf of The SCAN Foundation and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Lake Research Partners and American Viewpoint conducted a statewide survey among 1,218 registered voters in California ages 40 and older.

Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, May Jawad Aydin, Y. Jenny Chia, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto

Nearly 1 in 6 adults in California, about 3.7 million persons, report experiencing physical intimate partner violence (IPV) as adults, according to the authors of this policy brief.

Linda Delp, Steven P. Wallace, Jeanne Geiger-Brown, Carles Muntaner

The authors of this article studied determinants of job satisfaction among home care workers by analyzing data collected from telephone interviews with 1,614 Los Angeles home care workers on the state payroll in 2003.

Abuse ...

Jason E. Owen, Michael S. Goldstein, Jennifer H. Lee, Nancy Breen, Julia Rowland

This purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of online support group (OSG) use by those with chronic health problems and to identify characteristics associated with use of OSGs and face-to-face groups.

Jan M. Eberth, et al.

Breast cancer incidence and mortality have been increasing among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women, and their survival rate is the lowest of all racial/ethnic groups.

S. W. Ng, S. Zaghloul, H. I. Ali, G. Harrison, B. M. Popkin

This paper reviews studies on the prevalence of overweight, obesity and related nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Zachary L. Baron, Dylan H. Roby, Melissa A. Rodgers

This issue brief finds that the Senate health care reform bill and the reconciliation bill would lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in California, ensure greater access to primary care and preventive services, protect the solvency of Medicare, increase the options for long-term care, and protect the benefits of seniors eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal.

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Camilia Lui, Steven P. Wallace

These findings from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) provide information to help counties and local health systems identify areas with high rates of chronic conditions and assist them in meeting the needs of chronically ill patients.

The ...

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H. Roby

Nearly two million Californians lost their health insurance during 2008 and 2009 – years characterized by a deep recession and mass layoffs – bringing the total number of uninsured in the state to more than 8 million, according to this policy brief that draws upon both 2009 and adjusted 2007 data.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The 2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report published in March 2010 by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) makes extensive use of California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data, in part because CHIS provides robust samples of Asian and Latino ethnic groups that are unavailable in national surveys, and also provides cutting-edge measures related to ethnicity, immigration and culture.

Steven P. Wallace, D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Eva Durazo, A. E. Benjamin, Nadereh Pourat

In this "Policy Note" analysis paper, the authors examine the likely impact of budget cuts to the state's community-based and home care services on low-income older and disabled Californians.

Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham

This policy brief examines a range of health issues and trends among California's approximately three million women ages 50-64, an age group that often faces new and accelerated chronic health conditions.

California Department of Public Health, California Office of Binational Border Health

Hispanics living near the Mexican border were less likely to be able to afford dental care — San Diego County (7.9 ...

Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace

As more American Indians and Alaska Natives (American Indian or AIAN) live to adulthood and old age, the elderly population aged 55 and older is projected to increase from 5.5% ...

Dylan H. Roby, Cori Reifman, Anna Davis, Allison L. Diamant, Ying-Ying Meng, Gerald F. Kominski, Zina Kelly, Nadereh Pourat

Organized provider networks have been developed as a method of achieving efficiencies in the delivery of health care, and to reduce problems such as limited access to specialty and tertiary care, fragmentation and duplication of services, low-quality care and poor patient outcomes.

Jeroen van Meijgaard, Jonathan E. Fielding, Gerald F. Kominski

A comprehensive population health-forecasting model has the potential to interject new and valuable information about the future health status of the population based on current conditions, socioeconomic and demographic trends and potential changes in policies and programs.

Sunghee Lee, Delight E. Satter, Ninez A. Ponce

This article examines how different racial classifications affect survey weights and consequently change health-related indicators for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population in California.

Nadereh Pourat, Gina Nicholson

This policy brief examines the number of children in California who miss school due to lack of affordable dental care.

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Erin Peckham, Roberta Wyn

This policy brief examines the health disparities that low income nonelderly adult women in California encounter across a wide range of measures.

Janni J. Kinsler, Sung-Jae Lee, Jennifer N. Sayles, Peter A. Newman, Allison L. Diamant, William E. Cunningham

HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects Hispanics in the United States, a diverse and heterogeneous population.

Paul P. Lee, William E. Cunningham, Terry T. Nakazono, Ron D. Hays

Researchers study the associations of eye diseases and visual symptoms with the most widely used health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) generic profile measure.

Jennifer N. Sayles, Mitchell D. Wong, Janni J. Kinsler, David Martins, William E. Cunningham

The objective of this study was to estimate the association between HIV stigma and: self-reported access to care, regular source of HIV care, and antiretroviral therapy adherence; and to test whether mental health mediates these associations.

Steven P. Wallace, A. E. Benjamin, Valentine M. Villa, Nadereh Pourat

This policy brief examines the likely effects of the sweeping 2009 cuts to California's safety-net programs for low-income and disabled seniors.

Steven P. Wallace, Paula Leite, Xóchitl Castañeda, Marc Schenker

This report highlights the challenges faced by the 6.3 million children whose parents migrated to the U.S.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown

This fact sheet looks at the likely implications of national health care reform efforts on health insurance coverage in California.

Sunghee Lee, E. Richard Brown, David Grant, Thomas Belin, J. Michael Brick

This study examines potential nonresponse bias in a large-scale, population-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey in California and its association with the response rate.

Virginia A. Stallings, Carol West Suitor, Christine L. Taylor, Gail G. Harrison

This report, co-authored by Center Senior Research Scientist Gail Harrison, recommends a new set of nutrient targets and standards for menu planning for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.

The ...

Antronette Yancey, James F. Sallis

Physical inactivity is one of the leading causes of death, disability and health care costs, but resources and other investments in promoting physical activity are neither proportional, nor ideally suited, to address the problem, especially in the United States.

Dylan H. Roby, Gina Nicholson, Gerald F. Kominski

This policy brief uses data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine delays in fulfilling prescribed medication, delays in obtaining needed medical care, visits to emergency rooms and the presence of a usual source of care among insured African Americans in public and commercial HMOs.

Susan H. Babey, Malia Jones, Hongjian Yu, Harold Goldstein

This study reports geographic variations in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among children, adolescents, and adults and examines the correlation between soda consumption and obesity.

Nadereh Pourat

Dental insurance plays a key role in oral health. However, while dental insurance typically covers preventive services and significantly reduces the costs for services such as fillings, crowns, and dentures, dental benefits often are not comprehensive and come with significant cost-sharing requirements and annual caps, which may lead to unaffordable out-of-pocket expenditures.

Nadereh Pourat

Although structured similarly to health insurance, dental insurance is often more limited in scope and availability.

Antronette Yancey

The author studies how substantive and sustainable population-wide improvements in physical activity can be achieved only through the large-scale adoption and implementation of policies and practices that make being active the default choice and remaining inactive difficult.

Theresa A. Hastert, Susan H. Babey

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, the authors examine the association between dietary behaviors and the number of days that adolescents bring lunch to school.

Peter A. Newman, Sung-Jae Lee, Naihua Duan, Ellen Rudy, Terry T. Nakazono, John Boscardin, Lisa Kakinami, Steven Shoptaw, Allison L. Diamant, William E. Cunningham

Researchers assess HIV vaccine acceptability among high-risk adults in Los Angeles. Findings support development of social marketing interventions to increase acceptability of "partial efficacy" vaccines, behavioral interventions to mitigate risk compensation and targeted cost subsidies.

Nadereh Pourat

Dental hygienists can increase dentists' productivity, yet nationwide, one-third of dentists do not employ a hygienist.

E. Richard Brown, Richard Kronick, Ninez A. Ponce, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Erin Peckham

This comprehensive, biennial report provides an overview of insurance trends throughout the state and looks specifically at coverage of California's working adults, elderly as well as children's coverage.

Ying-Ying Meng, Rudolph P. Rull, Michelle Wilhelm, Christina Lombardi, John Balmes, Beate Ritz

The San Joaquin Valley in California ranks among the worst in the USA in terms of air quality, and its residents report some of the highest rates of asthma symptoms and asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations in California.

Sunghee Lee, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Jennifer Tsui

The authors examined health status and access to care among Asian Americans by the following acculturation indicators -- nativity, percent lifetime in the U.S., ...

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

This report examines a range of indicators, from education to housing, to neighborhood safety, to food access, to criminal justice as well as health insurance, among other topics to explore how health inequities can be eliminated in communities of color.

Walter Zelman

This report provides a comprehensive examination of political, policy, and economic factors that contributed to the failure of California's 2007 health care reform effort.

Walter Zelman, Alex Melamed

The purpose of this issue brief is to enhance understanding of the politics of health insurance coverage expansion efforts, thereby increasing the probabilities that such expansions may be achieved.

Nadereh Pourat, Gina Nicholson

California has about 14% of the total number of dentists nationwide–the largest percentage of any state.

Elizabeth Ozer, Elaine Zahnd, Sally Adams, Sheila Husting, Charles J. Wibbelsman, Kim P. Norman, Susan M. Smiga

This study evaluates how often primary care providers screen adolescent patients for emotional distress.

Nadereh Pourat, Cori Reifman, Dylan H. Roby, Ying-Ying Meng, Allison L. Diamant, Gerald F. Kominski

Only 27 percent of non-elderly adults in the United States have a "medical home" –- a place where they regularly receive medical care and advice.

Jennifer N. Sayles, Catherine L. Macphail, Peter A. Newman, William E. Cunningham

Little is known about HIV vaccine acceptability in the high-prevalence setting of South Africa — where young adults are likely to be targeted in early dissemination efforts.

Yaniv Hanoch, Thomas Rice, Janet Cummings, Stacey Wood

Researchers study the impact of the number of choices and age on measures of performance in choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan.

Steven P. Wallace, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Xóchitl Castañeda

Driven by rising healthcare costs at home, nearly one million Californians cross the border each year to seek medical care in Mexico, according to this article in the journal Medical Care.

An ...

Namratha Kandula, Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Jason A. Thompson, E. Richard Brown, David W. Baker

The authors of this study wanted to determine if perceived experiences of discrimination (both in general and in medical care) were associated with comfort providing race/ethnicity information, and conversely, to worry about providing the information.

E. Richard Brown, Gerald F. Kominski, Steven P. Wallace

The authors of this blog discuss the lessons of Medicare for the new public health insurance that Congress is considering creating as part of comprehensive health reform.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown

The authors examined how children ages 0-18 who enrolled into or disenrolled from California's Medicaid program (called Medi-Cal,"MC") and State Children's Health Insurance Program (called Healthy Families, "HF") are affected in their access to physician services.

B. Josea Kramer, Rebecca L. Vivrette, Delight E. Satter, Stella Jouldjian, Leander Russell McDonald

Many American Indian and Alaska Native veterans are eligible for healthcare from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and from the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Alexander N. Ortega, Sarah M. Horwitz, Hai Fang, Alice A. Kuo, Steven P. Wallace, Moira Inkelas

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, the authors examine parental concerns about development, learning and behavior for young children of Mexican origin and identify whether these reports differ by families' citizenship/documentation status.

Ninez A. Ponce, Winston Tseng, Paul Ong, Yen Ling Shek, Selena Ortiz, Melissa S. Gatchell

Despite their reputation as a healthy, successful minority group, Asians in the United States have serious health problems.

Janet Cummings, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Thomas Rice, E. Richard Brown

Many studies have documented the adverse consequences of uninsurance for children, but less is known about the differential effects of varying periods of uninsurance.

Deborah Koniak-Griffin, Rong Huang, Janna Lesser, Evelyn Gonzlez-Figuero, Sumiko Takayanagi, William G. Cumberland

Rising rates of heterosexually transmitted HIV among youth and young adults, particularly from ethnic minorities, create an urgent need to understand risk factors and perceptions of risk within the context of couple relationships.

Sunghee Lee, David Grant

This study examines whether there is an order effect associated with self-rated health for interviews conducted in English and Spanish languages.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Malia Jones, E. Richard Brown

Every day, over two million California adolescents (62%) drink soda and 1.4 million (43%) eat fast food, but only 38% eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables.

This ...

David Grant, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Nancy Breen, Jasmin A. Tiro, Jennifer Tsui

This policy brief looks at awareness and utilization of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine among girls age 13 years and older as well as among young women.

Steven P. Wallace, Susan E. Smith

Using the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), the authors of this policy brief find that nearly half a million elders (495,000) living alone in California in 2007 could not make ends meet—lacking sufficient income to pay for a minimum level of housing, food, health care, transportation and other basic expenses.

Anish P. Mahajan, Lara Stemple, Martin Shapiro, Jan B. King, William E. Cunningham

In September 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the "Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-care Settings" to improve screening and diagnosis.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Winnie Huang, E. Richard Brown

Active commuting (non-motorized transport) to school can be an important source of physical activity for children and adolescents.

Susan H. Babey, Ying-Ying Meng, Malia Jones

In California, 90,000 adults with current asthma have experienced problems understanding their doctors.

Paula Yoon, Maren T. Scheuner, Cynthia Jorgensen, Muin J. Khoury

Family health history reflects the effects of genetic, environmental and behavioral factors and is an important risk factor for a variety of disorders including coronary heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Arleen A. Leibowitz, Katherine Desmond, Thomas Belin

Researchers sought to determine whether lack of state Medicaid coverage for infant male circumcision correlates with lower circumcision rates.

Lingqi Tang, Naihua Duan, Ruth Klap, Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Thomas Belin

Using a health-services study as an illustrative example of longitudinal randomized field research with the potential for participants to be lost to follow-up, the researchers applied a permutation test where the treatment indicator variable is randomly permuted in the context of regression models with covariates and attrition weighting.

David P. Eiserman, Erin Richardson, Lekeisha Sumner, Sawssan R. Ahmed, Honghu Liu, Jeannette Valentine, Michael A. Rodriguez

Health care providers are advised to refer abused women to needed community services. However, little is known about abused women's perceived need for services, particularly among Latina women.

Amy E. Bonomi, Melissa L. Anderson, Elizabeth A. Cannon, Natasha Slesnick, Michael A. Rodriguez

No single study has delineated the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) over multiple time periods for Latina versus non-Latina women and compared the health of abused Latina women to the health of abused non-Latina women using multiple health indicators.

Judy Y. Chen, Sharon Swonger, Gerald F. Kominski, Honghu Liu, Ji Eun Lee, Allison L. Diamant

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different school-based health insurance strategies to provide coverage to uninsured Korean American children.

Amardeep Thind, Kathryn A. Atchison, Ronald M. Andersen, Terry T. Nakazono, John J. Gutierrez

In 2002–03 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) established the Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program to change dental education in the United States.

Tanya G. K. Bentley, Rachel M. Effros, Kartika Palar, Emmett B. Keeler

This article divides health care waste into administrative, operational, and clinical waste and provides an overview of each.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Erin Peckham, Y. Jenny Chia

This policy brief draws upon CHIS 2007 data to examine latest trends in health insurance for the state of California.

Sally Adams, Sheila Husting, Elaine Zahnd, Elizabeth Ozer

The authors studied rates and disparities in preventive health topics covered during routine medical care for adolescents, using a California sample.

Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat

This article explores the barriers to dealing with chronic illness and other factors faced by disease management programs for Medicaid populations.

Theresa A. Hastert, Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, E. Richard Brown

In this policy brief, the authors examine why low-income teenagers are almost three times more likely to be obese than teens from more affluent households.

Steven P. Wallace, Jennifer Lee, May Jawad Aydin

California's population is getting older. By 2026 the elderly population will double to nearly 8 million.

Nadereh Pourat

Although many Californians have dental insurance, even those with coverage may not be getting the dental care they need, and this is also the case among people who get dental benefits under Medi-Cal.

Jim E. Banta, Peter Przekop, Mark G. Haviland, M. Pereau

Using 2005 California Health Interview Survey data, this study calculated binge drinking rates among California adults and describe the characteristics of female and male binge drinkers.

Barbara Greengold, Adeline M. Nyamathi, Gerald F. Kominski, Dorothy Wiley, Mary Ann Lewis, Felicia Hodge, Mendel Singer, Brennan Spiegel

The authors examined the cost-effectiveness of three behavioral interventions provided to enhance hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) joint vaccination (HAV/HBV) compliance among homeless persons living in Los Angeles County.

Deborah Koniak-Griffin, Janna Lesser, Tanya Henneman, Rong Huang, Rong Huang, Xin Huang, Jerry Tello, Barbara Kappos, Evelyn Gonzalez-Figueroa, William G. Cumberland

This study evaluates the outcomes of a theory-based, couple-focused HIV prevention program for Latino adolescent mothers and their male partners.

David Miller, Lillian Gelberg, Lorna Kwan, Sevan Stepanian, Arlene Fink, Ronald M. Andersen, Mark S. Litwin

What impact do racial and ethnic disparities have on disadvantaged men in a prostate cancer public-assistance program? In this examination of California's IMPACT program, the authors evaluated racial and ethnic differences in health services utilization and patient-reported health care outcomes.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, Melissa S. Gatchell, Ninez A. Ponce, E. Richard Brown, Y. Jenny Chia

This study examines the factors associated with discontinuous health insurance coverage without periods of uninsurance during the past year (ie, switching coverage), and whether it has a detrimental effect on basic access to care.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda

This landmark report describes patterns and trends associated with Latin American, in particular, Mexican migration to the United States.

David Grant, Samantha Kurosky

This policy brief compares three CHIS survey cycles –- 2001, 2003 and 2005 –- to examine key indicators of children’s health in California.

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Y. Jenny Chia, Nicole Lordi, David Grant, Mirabai Rao

This report provides a summary of the statewide findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), with highlights of changes from 2003 to 2005.

Jennifer N. Sayles, Ron D. Hays, Catherine A. Sarkisian, Anish P. Mahajan, Karen L. Spritzer, William E. Cunningham

There is a need for a psychometrically sound measure of the stigma experienced by diverse persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA).

Constance A. Gewa, Robert E. Weiss, Nimrod O. Bwibo, Shannon Whaleya, Marian Sigman, Suzanne P. Murphy, Gail G. Harrison, Charlotte G. Neumann

With the exception of iodine and Fe, there is still very limited information on the effect of micronutrients on cognitive function, especially among school-age children.

Michelle Wilhelm, Ying-Ying Meng, Rudolph P. Rull, Paul English, John Balmes, Beate Ritz

Despite extensive evidence that air pollution affects childhood asthma, state-level and national-level tracking of asthma outcomes in relation to air pollution is limited.

John Song, Melanie M. Wall, Edward R. Ratner, Dianne M. Bartels, Nancy Ulvestad, Lillian Gelberg

This study demonstrates that people living in dire economic and social situations will complete an advance directive (AD) when offered the opportunity.

Jennifer Lee, Michael S. Goldstein, E. Richard Brown, Rachel Ballard-Barbash

Researchers have found that immigrants in the United States gradually relinquish cultural practices and adopt health behaviors similar to native born individuals as they acculturate.

Corita R. Grudzen, Gerry Ryan, William Margold, Jacqueline Torres, Lillian Gelberg

Despite being part of a large and legal industry in Los Angeles, little is known about adult film performers' exposure to health risks and when and how these risks might occur.

Sunghee Lee, Hoang Anh Nguyen, May Jawad Aydin, John Kurata

Survey interview languages not only determine who is eligible to participate in certain surveys but may also influence survey estimates.

Roberta Wyn, Theresa A. Hastert, Erin Peckham

This report examines important health concerns of nonelderly women (ages 18-64) in California, including their health status, selected health behaviors, health insurance coverage, usual source of care and access to health care.

Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Christina Lombardi, E. Richard Brown

Despite advances in therapy, asthma remains a disease that is not optimally controlled in many Californians.

Hala Tamim, Gail G. Harrison, Maria Atoui, Ghina Mumtaz, Faisal El-Kak, Muhieddine Seoud, Khaled Yunis

The objective of the present study was to assess the prevalence and determinants of preconceptional folic acid supplement use among pregnant women in Lebanon.

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Ronald M. Andersen

National health surveys have played an important role in the development of health services research.

William E. Cunningham, Mitchell D. Wong, Ron D. Hays

HIV/AIDS is a condition characterized by a variety of medical and social needs that vary between individuals and over time.

Shunichi Namiki, Lorna Kwan, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Akito Terai, Akito Terai, Mark S. Litwin

This study compares the evolution of urinary dysfunction and associated distress (bother) during the first two years after radical prostatectomy (RP) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) between Japanese and U.S.

Bowen Chung, Loretta Jones, Larry X. Campbell, Henrietta Glover, Lillian Gelberg, Donna T. Chen

The intricacies and time-sensitivity of conducting high-quality and clinically relevant health-related human subject research in post-disaster situations challenges traditional approaches to protecting study participants from exploitation and harm.

Kelly B. Haskard, Jim E. Banta, Summer L. Williams, Mark G. Haviland, M. Robin DiMatteo, Peter Przekop, Leonard S. Werner, Donald L. Anderson

Binge drinking and poor mental health may affect adherence to treatment for individuals with asthma. The purposes of this research were to:

Examine the relationship of self-reported binge drinking and mental health to adherence to daily asthma control medications; and,

Identify other demographic and health-related factors associated with asthma control medication adherence.

Secondary ...

Michael E. Ernst, Cynthia A. Weber, Jeffrey D. Dawson, Michelle A. O'Connor, Wenjiao Lin, Barry L. Carter, George R. Bergus

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is useful in evaluating cardiovascular risk but requires significant time.

Daniel J.B. Mitchell

In January, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a state universal health care plan modeled after the Massachusetts individual mandate program.

Michael V. Kline, Robert M. Huff, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

This second edition grounds readers in the understanding that health promotion programs in multicultural settings require an in-depth knowledge of the cultural group being targeted.

Susan Baldwin, M. Rosa Solorio, Donna L. Washington, Hongjian Yu, Yii-Chieh Huang, E. Richard Brown

Emergency contraception reduces women's risk for pregnancy after unprotected intercourse, and women’s awareness of the method is increasingly important for expanding access.

Karen Meehan, Gail G. Harrison, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Nathan Nickel, Eloise Jenks, Anthony Ramirez

An electric pump loan program designed to facilitate breastfeeding for low-income mothers returning to full-time work was evaluated.

Linda Rosenstock, Gillian B. Silver, Karen Helsing, Connie Evashwick, Ruth Katz, Michael Klag, Gerald F. Kominski, Donna Richter, Ciro Sumaya

Today's public health workforce, faced with daunting public health challenges, has been forced to do more with fewer people.

Ying-Ying Meng, Michelle Wilhelm, Rudolph P. Rull, Paul English, Sheila Nathan, Beate Ritz

This study investigates whether frequent asthma symptoms (daily/weekly symptoms) can be attributed to traffic-related exposures, poverty, and/or vulnerabilities.

May Jawad Aydin, Abla M. Sibai, Monique Chaaya

Gerontological literature utilizes the life stress paradigm to understand the impact of stress on psychological well-being, as well as the protective role that social resources play in buffering those effects; however these relationships are not well understood within various historical and social contexts.

Richard E. Kratz, Ninez A. Ponce, Antronette Yancey

This study evaluated the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition Network, a large multicomponent nutrition and physical activity program in an ethnically diverse school district, launched in 2000.

Thirty-six ...

Ninez A. Ponce, Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays, Y. Jenny Chia, E. Richard Brown

The health coverage of low-income workers represents an area of continuing disparities in the United States system of health insurance.

Chizobam Ani, Mohsen Bazargan, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Ronald M. Andersen, David W. Hindman, Richard S. Baker

This study examines the correlates of self-diagnosis of chronic medical and mental health conditions in under-served minority populations.

Shunichi Namiki, Lorna Kwan, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Akito Terai, Takefumi Satoh, Shiro Baba, Yoichi Arai, Mark S. Litwin

The authors assessed the impact of bother with urinary and bowel dysfunction on social activities among men in Japan and the United States following primary therapy for localized prostate cancer.

Nadereh Pourat, Guoyu A. Tao, Cathleen M. Walsh

This article examines the rates of self-reported Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) screening among young women and to examine the independent association of type of insurance and specific health plans with these rates.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Hongjian Yu, E. Richard Brown

The availability of places to engage in physical activity may influence physical activity levels. This study examined whether the relationship between physical activity and access to parks differs depending on adolescents’ sociodemographic, housing and neighborhood characteristics.

Nadereh Pourat

These two fact sheets show that nearly one-third of young children 11 years of age or younger have never visited a dental provider or have not visited a dental provider in more than one year.

Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, Theresa A. Hastert, Stefan Harvey, Harold Goldstein, Rebecca Flournoy, Rajni Banthia, Victor Rubin, Sarah Treuhaft

People living in neighborhoods crowded with fast-food and convenience stores but relatively few grocery or produce outlets are at significantly higher risk of suffering from obesity and diabetes.

The ...

Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Dylan H. Roby, Meghan E. Cameron

Using interviews with 965 California workers injured on the job, the authors examined the factors associated with their return to work as well as their self-reported degree of recovery.

Gerald F. Kominski, Donald E. Morisky, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Jenny B. Kotlerman

This study measured possible racial/ethnic differences in a Florida disease management (DM) program on utilization of selected healthcare services for four chronic illnesses.

Maren T. Scheuner, Pauline Sieverding, Paul G. Shekelle

The objective of this article was to synthesize current information on genetic health services for common adult-onset conditions by examining studies that have addressed the outcomes, consumer information needs, delivery, and challenges in integrating these services.

Jim E. Banta, Mark G. Haviland, Peter Przekop

An estimated 3.2 million Californian men engage in binge drinking, according to the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Donald E. Morisky, Gerald F. Kominski, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Jenny B. Kotlerman

Premature morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases account for a major proportion of expenditures for health care cost in the United States.

Nadereh Pourat

This report examines dental care utilization of California children and finds that disparities in dental visits exist, including lower rates of visits for Latino and African American children and those without dental insurance.

Steven P. Wallace, L. Cricel Molina

The federal poverty guideline, used to determine income eligibility for many public programs, covers less than half of the basic costs experienced by adults age 65 and older in the state.

Dena R. Herman, Gail G. Harrison, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Eloise Jenks

This study tested the effectiveness of a subsidy for fruits and vegetables to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Lillian Gelberg, Michael C. Lu, Barbara D. Leake, Ronald M. Andersen, Hal Morgenstern, Adeline M. Nyamathi

This study of 974 homeless women surveyed in Los Angeles County in 1997 included 457 who were at risk for unintended pregnancy.

Judy Y. Chen, Allison L. Diamant, Amardeep Thind, Rose C. Maly

Among women with breast cancer (BC), greater BC knowledge has been associated with greater participation in treatment decision-making, patient satisfaction, and survival.

Erum Nadeem, Jane M. Lange, Dawn Edge, Marie Fongwa, Thomas Belin, Jeanne Miranda

This study examines the extent to which stigma-related concerns about mental health care account for the underuse of mental health services among low-income immigrant and U.S.-born ...

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

This article estimates the prevalence of asthma symptoms for California legislative districts. Using small area estimation (SAE) techniques, the article reports on findings not previously available at the sub-county level.

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nadereh Pourat, Nancy Breen, Steven Coughlin, Teresa Abend McLean, Timothy S. McNeel

Wide variations in these screening rates were found among the seven different subgroups of Asian American women studied, holding demographic and socioeconomic characteristics constant.

Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Meghan E. Cameron

A 2006 survey of injured workers in California found that injured workers reported high levels of satisfaction and quality of care.

Alexander N. Ortega, Hai Fang, Victor H. Perez, John A. Rizzo, Olivia Carter-Pokras, Steven P. Wallace, Lillian Gelberg

This article uses data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey to show that undocumented Mexicans and other Latinos used fewer health care services, and reported poorer experiences with care, compared to their U.S.-born ...

Nadereh Pourat, Dylan H. Roby, Roberta Wyn, Marvin Marcus

Dentists who care for publicly insured patients appear to have practices that are different from those who do not, in terms of delivery of patient care and practice structure.

Steven P. Wallace, Veronica F. Gutierrez, Xóchitl Castañeda

This article explores the link between immigration and preventive health care services, particularly among adults of Mexican origin.

Rosemarie Kobau, Hatice Zahran, David Grant, David J. Thurman, Patricia H. Price, Matthew M. Zack

Using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), this article assesses the prevalence of self-reported and active epilepsy, as well as associated health-related quality of life issues, among adults in California.

Loan Pham Kim, Gail G. Harrison, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

This journal article reports the findings of a qualitative study designed to inform the development of a proposed community-wide campaign to promote increased physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income Hmong families.

Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda, Sylvia Guendelman , D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Emily Felt

A collaboration of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Health Initiative of the Americas, this report explores the health care challenges faced by Latin American immigrants, and Mexican immigrants in particular.

Melissa S. Gatchell, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce

This fact sheet looks at the health insurance types and the status of people who use community health centers, public hospitals, and clinics, also called the "safety net," as their usual source of health care.

Ken Jacobs, Korey Capozza, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, E. Richard Brown

This research brief, jointly authored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, finds that many California families spend a substantial amount of their annual income on health care premiums and out-of-pockets costs, and could face financially devastating medical expenses if they are not adequately protected.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown

The prevalence of diabetes in California continues to rise. Over 1.8 million adults age 18 and over (7%) have been diagnosed with diabetes, up from 1.5 ...

Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, Meghan E. Cameron

This policy brief reviews the literature on access to health care as it relates to current proposals for health care reform in California.

David Carroll, Dylan H. Roby, Jean Ross, Michael Snavely, E. Richard Brown, Gerald F. Kominski

This report, jointly authored by the California Budget Project and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, finds that many California families spend a substantial amount on health care premiums and out-of-pockets costs, and could face financially devastating medical expenses if they are not adequately protected.

Gerald F. Kominski

This paper describes the origins and importance of risk adjustment, summarizes current risk adjustment by Medicare and discusses issues and problems with risk adjustment methods.

Ronald M. Andersen, Daisy C. Carreon, Judith-Ann Friedman, Sebastian E. Baumeister, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Terry T. Nakazono, Pamela L. Davidson

This study examined the factors influencing the proportion of underrepresented minority students (URM) in dental schools.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown

Using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, this study examines participation (and lack of participation) by eligible children in California’s Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, Jean Yoon, Janet Cummings, Thomas Rice

This report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that job-based health insurance coverage -- the backbone of the state's system of health insurance – continues to decline.

Joshua S. Yang, Steven P. Wallace

New expansions of health insurance in California are unlikely to attract additional undocumented immigrants to the state, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Shana Alex Lavarreda

As California's system of job-based health insurance continues to erode, low- and moderate-income workers are increasingly being left out, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Gail G. Harrison, Matthew Sharp, George Manolo-LeClair, Anthony Ramirez, November McGarvey

This policy brief reports that, according to the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, more than 2.5 ...

Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Donald E. Morisky, Gerald F. Kominski, Jenny B. Kotlerman

The authors examine the impact of disease management on utilization of selected health care services.

Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Meghan E. Cameron

The authors measured the association of physician perceptions of access to quality care with intentions to change workers' compensation (WC) participation levels, barriers to delivery of quality care, levels of payment and type of provider after the implementation of California WC reforms in 2004.

Steven P. Wallace, L. Cricel Molina, Mona Jhawar

Falls, disability and hunger are surprisingly common aspects of life for California seniors, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were able to produce these fact sheets detailing health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and demographic characteristics for counties and regions in California.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown

Teens living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of low-income households are unlikely to have a safe park near their home and are more likely to get less physical activity, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

E. Richard Brown, Nadereh Pourat, Steven P. Wallace

This fact sheet uses information from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey to determine how many of the 4.8 ...

William J. McCarthy, Antronette Yancey, Gail G. Harrison, Joanne Leslie, Judith M. Siegel

This study tested the efficacy of an eight-week, culturally targeted, community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention: Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF).

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

This fact sheet uses data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey to view the state's uninsurance problem by county.

Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Dylan H. Roby, Meghan E. Cameron

This report was produced by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research under contract to the California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), Department of Industrial Relations, which is required to perform an annual study of access to medical treatment for injured workers.

Theresa A. Hastert, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Ying-Ying Meng

Many Californians are exposed to environmental conditions in the home -- such as the presence of tobacco smoke and furry pets -- which can trigger asthma symptoms.

Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown

Using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), this policy brief examines the racial/ethnic disparities in the burden of asthma among those with active asthma.

Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Ying-Ying Meng, E. Richard Brown

In California, 2.8 million children and adults suffer from active asthma. One out of six of these Californians lives below the poverty level.

Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

Gerald F. Kominski, Sepideh Farivar Varon, Donald E. Morisky, Kevin Malotte, Vicki J. Ebin, Astou Coly, Chi Chiao

For children and adolescents, incentives can serve as a positive reinforcement when trying to get them to complete care that is critical for their health.

Roberta Wyn

This policy brief provides an overview of the health insurance coverage of nonelderly women in California, based on data from the 2003 and 2001 California Health Interview Surveys (CHIS 2003, CHIS 2001).

Susan H. Babey, David Grant, E. Richard Brown

Using newly available data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), as well as data from CHIS 2001 and CHIS 2003, this fact sheet provides an early look at changes over time in the prevalence of smoking, asthma, diabetes, and overweight and obesity in California.

Elena Zúñiga, Xóchitl Castañeda, Al Averbach, Steven P. Wallace

This report focuses on the population of Mexican ancestry in the United States and in California, with an emphasis on immigrants.

Susan H. Babey, Ying-Ying Meng, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert

Nearly 6 million Californians report that they have difficulty breathing. Moreover, according to this policy brief, asthma among California adults increased from 2001 to 2003 across all age groups and 3.4 ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

This fact sheet created by the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) team compares parental reports of autism from the 2001 and 2005 California Health Interview Surveys to identify a significant increase in the number of cases between survey periods.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Jean Yoon, Sungching Glenn

Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers found that more than half of the uninsured children in California are eligible for public programs but are not enrolled, a further sign of the limitations in current health insurance arrangements.

Jean Yoon, E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Sungching Glenn

Despite marginal improvements in job-based health insurance for adults and public program enrollment for children, one in five (6.5 ...

Nadereh Pourat, Jas Nihalani, Romni Neiman, George Rutherford, Barry Handon, E. Richard Brown, Gail Bolan

In California, chlamydia and gonorrhea are the most common reportable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Nelson Fong SooHoo, Husham Sharifi, Gerald F. Kominski, Jay R. Lieberman

This study supports unicompartmental knee arthroplasty as a cost-effective alternative for the treatment of unicompartmental arthritis when the durability and function of a unicompartmental replacement are assumed to be similar to those of a primary total knee replacement.

Nelson Fong SooHoo, Shail Vyas, Jesse Manunga, Husham Sharifi, Gerald F. Kominski, Jay R. Lieberman

Core decompression is widely used to treat the early stages of osteonecrosis of the hip. The purpose of this analysis is to assist orthopedic surgeons in judging whether currently available data support the use of core decompression as cost-effective.

Ying-Ying Meng, Rudolph P. Rull, Michelle Wilhelm, Beate Ritz, Paul English, Hongjian Yu, E. Richard Brown, Marlena Kuruvilla, Sheila Nathan

Children and adults who suffer from asthma and live near heavy vehicular traffic are nearly three times more likely to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized for their condition than those who live near low traffic areas, according to this policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Janice Frates, E. Richard Brown

With the goal of developing a comprehensive predictive model of eligible children's enrollment in California's Medicaid (Medi-Cal [MC]) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP; Healthy Families [HF]) programs, the authors examined the effects of multiple family-level factors and contextual county-level factors on children's enrollment in Medicaid and SCHIP using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, data on outstationed eligibility workers (OEWs), and administrative data from state agencies and local health insurance expansion programs for fiscal year 2000–2001.

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown

Less than one-fourth of California adults -- 5.5 million -- walk on a regular basis, while significantly more than that -- 6.8 ...

An-Fu Hsiao, Mitchell D. Wong, Michael S. Goldstein, Hongjian Yu, Ronald M. Andersen, E. Richard Brown, Neil S. Wenger

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is likely to vary amond racial/ethnic groups because its use is related to cultural and health beliefs.

Jeff Luck, Carol Chang, E. Richard Brown, John Lumpkin

This journal article provides an overview of current issues surrounding the availability and use of local health information, identifies barriers that hinder its use, and suggests potential solutions.

Ninez A. Ponce, Ron D. Hays, William E. Cunningham

Ponce NA, Hays R, Cunningham W. Linguistic Disparities in Health Care Access and Health Status among Older Adults.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown, Janice Frates, Kathleen Thiede Call, Wei Yen, Jim Watkins

This journal article reports the results of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded California Medicaid Undercount Experiment (CMUE) to estimate the extent of underreporting of Medicaid in the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and its effect on estimates of uninsurance.

Gerald F. Kominski, Jay C. Ripps, Miriam J. Laugesen, Robert G. Cosway, Nadereh Pourat

Kominski GF, Ripps JC, Laugesen MJ, Cosway RG, Pourat N. The California Cost and Coverage Model: Analyses of the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates for the California Legislature.

Helen Ann Halpin, Sara McMenamin, Nadereh Pourat, Edward Yelin

This paper summarize for the California Legislature the evidence on the medical effectiveness of pediatric asthma self-management training and education (PASMTE), including the use of peak flow meters, spacers and nebulizers and the impact that mandated coverage of these services and devices under Assembly Bill (AB) 2185 would have on total health care expenditures, monthly premiums, health services utilization and the public's health.

Nadereh Pourat, Jay C. Ripps

The continued decline of employment-based coverage in California and more than 6.6 million uninsured residents are major reasons for concern, since health insurance is the primary means by which health care for employed persons and their families is financed in the state.

Gerald F. Kominski, Meghan E. Cameron, Dylan H. Roby

More than 96 percent (nearly 24 million) of insured Californians report "good" or better satisfaction with their health care.

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Jenny Chia, John Kurata

Many Californians are still struggling to reach good health, according to this report from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the country's largest population-based state health survey.

Dena R. Herman, Gail G. Harrison, Eloise Jenks

Herma DR, Harrison GG, Jenks E. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. May 2006; 106; pp.

Gerald F. Kominski, Cori Reifman, Meghan E. Cameron, Dylan H. Roby

More than 1 million adult HMO members in California with limited English proficiency are at risk for problems accessing health care services and receiving quality treatment.

Gregory D. Stevens, Michael Seid, Neal Halfon

Stevens GD, Seid M, Halfon N. Enrolling Vulnerable, Uninsured but Eligible Children in Public Health Insurance: Association With Health Status and Primary Care Access.

Ninez A. Ponce, Leighton Ku, William E. Cunningham, E. Richard Brown

Ponce NA, Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries.

Brenda F. Seals, Linda Burhansstipanov, Delight E. Satter, Jenny Chia, Melissa S. Gatchell

Seals BF, Burhansstipanov L, Satter DE, Chia YJ, Gatchell M. California American Indian and Alaska Natives Tribal Groups' Care Access and Utilization of Care: Policy Implications.

Steven P. Wallace

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that caused much preventable death and misery, especially in New Orleans.

Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Elizabeth Malcom, Neetu Chawla, Yee Wei Lim

This study -- published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology -- states that significant number of asthma sufferers wind up in the emergency room for treatment because delays such as cost or insurance coverage prevented them from getting earlier needed care. Researchers ...

Benjamin A. Spencer, Susan H. Babey, David A. Etzioni, Ninez A. Ponce, N. A. Breen, R. Coates, Mark S. Litwin, E. Richard Brown

Spencer BA, Babey SH, Etzioni DA, Ponce NA, Yu H, Breen NA, Coates R, Brown ER, Litwin M. (2006) Prostate Cancer Screening in California, Results from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey.

Judith Swan, Nancy Breen, Linda Burhansstipanov, Delight E. Satter, William W. Davis, C. Matthew Snipp, Timothy S. McNeel

Swan J, Breen N, Burhansstipanov L, Satter DE, Davis WW, McNeel T, Snipp CM. Cancer screening and risk factor rates among American Indians.

Benjamin A. Spencer, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Hongjian Yu, Neetu Chawla, Mark S. Litwin

Spencer BA, Babey SH, Etzioni DA, Ponce NA, Brown ER, Yu H, Chawla N, Litwin MS. A Population-Based Survey of Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Among California Men at Higher Risk for Prostate Carcinoma.

Nadereh Pourat, Dylan H. Roby, Roberta Wyn, Marvin Marcus

This report uses data derived from a survey of 13,600 general dentists throughout California and constructs a picture of private dental practice in California; including staffing levels, wage and benefits, patient populations, and experiences in utilizing Allied Dental Health Professionals (ADHP).

Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert

More than one in four California adolescents -- nearly one million in all -- get less than the recommended levels of physical activity, but neighborhood characteristics and access to safe parks have an important effect on whether teens meet activity recommendations, and whether they get any activity at all reports this new health policy research brief using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

E. Richard Brown, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, Allison L. Diamant

One in four California adults does not walk at all for transportation or leisure in an average week and half of California adults walk for a combined total of less than one hour each week as reported in this new health policy research brief that uses data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert

Nearly 1.7 million California adults age 18 and over (6.6%) have been diagnosed with diabetes, up from 1.5 ...

Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in California and have become among the most common, costly, and often preventable of all health problems.

J. Y. Chen, Allison L. Diamant, Nadereh Pourat, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

Chen JY, Diamant A, Pourat N, Kagawa-Singer M. Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of preventive services among the elderly.

Gail G. Harrison, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Susan B. Foerester, Henry Lee, Loan Pham Kim, Allyn Fernandez-Ami, Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Valerie Quinn, Dileep G. Bal

Harrison GG, Kagawa-Singer M, Foerster SB, Lee H, Pham Kim L, Nguyen TU, Fernandez-Ami A, Quinn V, Bal DG.

Anthony Ramirez, Gail C. Farmer, David Grant, Theodora Papachristou

Am J Public Health. 2005; 95(11): 2057-2064. The 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001) is the largest geographically complex multidimensional state health survey ever conducted in the United States and was designed to generate demographic and health estimates including cancer-related measures for the non-institutionalized household population of California.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown

This report provides estimates of program participation expressed as the ratio of children who are enrolled in either the MC or the HF programs to the total number who are eligible to participate in the programs and who do not have private or employer sponsored health insurance coverage.

E. Richard Brown, Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, George B. Abbott

Brown ER, Holtby S, Zahnd E, Abbott GB. Community-based participatory research in the California Health Interview Survey.

Steven P. Wallace, Veronica F. Gutierrez, Xóchitl Castañeda

The following two fact sheets viewing, respectively, demographics of Mexican immigrants to the United States and the health service disparities among that population are the products of a joint research effort conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California-Mexico Health Initiative at the California Policy Research Center, University of California Office of the President.

Elena Zúñiga, Steven P. Wallace, Salvador Berumen, Xóchitl Castañeda

The fundamental purpose of "Mexico-United States Migration: Health issues" is to present a general overview of the conditions faced by Mexican residents in the United States concerning their health care. Good ...

Charles A. DiSogra, Mark Hudes

The California Dietary Practices Survey (CDPS) is nationally recognized as the oldest, state-specific tracking survey for fruit and vegetable intake in the country.

Michael S. Goldstein, E. Richard Brown, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Hal Morgenstern, Roshan Bastani, Jennifer Lee, Nicole Gatto, Anita Ambs

This article examines the extent and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among a population-based sample of California adults that is highly diverse in terms of sociodemographic characteristics and health status.

Theresa A. Hastert, Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, E. Richard Brown

Each day two-thirds of California teens drink soda, nearly half eat fast food, and only a quarter eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables, as reported in this new health policy research brief that uses data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Thomas Rice, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Melissa S. Gatchell

This report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that job-based health insurance coverage -- the backbone of the state's system of health insurance -- is declining.

Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Natalya Mostovskaya

More than 5 million Californians enrolled in HMOs (over 50% of enrollees aged 12-64) are overweight or obese.

Nadereh Pourat, Thomas Rice, Ming Tai-Seale, Gail Bolan, Jas Nihalani

This journal article examines the association between primary care physician (PCP) reimbursement and delivery of sexually transmitted disease (STD) services.

Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce

Six in ten Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) children have employer-based health insurance and over 90% have insurance all year, but children's coverage differs across AAPI ethnic groups.

Gail G. Harrison, George Manolo-LeClair, Anthony Ramirez, Jenny Chia, John Kurata, November McGarvey

Compiled with data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, this study found that more than 2.9 ...

Steven P. Wallace

Wallace, Steven P. The Public Health Perspective on Aging. Generations. 29:2(2005), 5-10.

Delight E. Satter, Andrea Veiga-Ermert, Linda Burhansstipanov, Luis Pena, Terrie Restivo

Satter DE, Veiga-Ermert A, Burhansstipanov L, Pena L, Restivo T. Communicating respectfully with American Indian and Alaska natives: Lessons from the California Health Interview Survey.

Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby, Jennifer R. Kincheloe

This new study found that providing health insurance to the estimated 6.3 million Californians who were uninsured in 2001 would increase health care expenditures within the state by about $842 million, or $143 per uninsured person, with significant savings likely through program consolidation, better health and preventive care, reduced uncompensated care spending by "safety net" providers, and expanding insurance revenues. The ...

Gerald F. Kominski, Kevin C. Heslin, Hal Morgenstern, Eric L. Hurwitz, Philip I. Harber

The authors compared total outpatient costs of four common treatments for low-back pain (LBP) at 18-months follow-up.

Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, E. Richard Brown

Rice, T., Lavarreda, S.A., Ponce, N.A., & Brown, ER. The impact of private and public health insurance on medication use for adults with chronic diseases.

Susan H. Babey, Allison L. Diamant, E. Richard Brown, Theresa A. Hastert

This policy brief describes physical activity among California's adolescents based primarily on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in obesity and overweight rates among California adults for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts.

Michael A. Rodriguez, Marlena Kane, Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, George R. Flores

This fact sheet describes overweight among Latino adolescents in California based on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

Delight E. Satter, Brenda F. Seals, Jenny Chia, Melissa S. Gatchell, Linda Burhansstipanov

Satter DE, Seals BF, Chia YJ, Gatchell M, Burhansstipanov L. American Indians and Alaska Natives in California: Women's Cancer Screening and Results.

Claire Brindis, Elizabeth Ozer, Sally Adams, Jane Park, Nicole Lordi, Elaine Zahnd, Sue Holtby

A new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, "Health of California's Adolescents: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey," presents a public health profile of California adolescents ages 12-17 years.

Mona Jhawar, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Steven P. Wallace

This new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research presents diabetes prevalence rates among adults by California Assembly and Senate districts.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

Between 2001 and 2003, both children and adults lost employment-based health insurance coverage. For children, increased enrollment in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families resulted in a lower uninsured rate.

Ninez A. Ponce, Robert J. Nordyke, Sherry Hirota

Ponce N, Nordyke RJ, Hirota S. (2005) Uninsured immigrant workers: A View from a California County. Journal of Immigrant Health. ...

Mona Jhawar, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights regional variations of rates among California children ages 0-5 and ages 6-17 from limited income families (below 300% FPL) who were uninsured and not eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy families in 2001.

Parisa Mirzadehgan, Gail G. Harrison, Charles A. DiSogra

This fact sheet, based on findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), describes the prevalence of overweight and obesity among California adults.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This fact sheet examines children's health insurance coverage, and children who are uninsured but eligible for coverage through public programs, using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003).

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

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.

David A. Etzioni, Ninez A. Ponce, Susan H. Babey, Benjamin A. Spencer, Neetu Chawla, C. Y. Ko , Nancy Breen

Etzioni DA, Ponce NA, Babey SH, Spencer BA, Brown ER, Ko CY, Chawla N, Breen N, Klabunde CN. A Population-based Study of Colorectal Cancer Test Use: Results from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey.

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Mona Jhawar, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in hypertension rates among California adults for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts.

Nelson Fong SooHoo, Gerald F. Kominski

The purpose of this cost-effectiveness analysis was to evaluate whether the currently available literature justifies the emerging use of total ankle arthroplasty.

Steven P. Wallace, Veronica F. Gutierrez

This Binational Health Week fact sheet documents the problems of access to preventive care faced by Mexican immigrants.

Veronica F. Gutierrez, Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda

This Binational Health Week fact sheet describes the demographics and basic health status of the nine million Mexican immigrants living in the U.S.

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Mona Jhawar, Sripipatana Alek

This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in asthma rates among all Californians for state legislative and Congressional districts.

J. Y. Chen, Allison L. Diamant, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nadereh Pourat, C. Wold

Chen JY, Diamant AL, Kagawa-Singer M, Pourat N, Wold C. Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Groups to Assess Cancer Screening in Women.

Ninez A. Ponce, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Wei Yen, E. Richard Brown, Charles A. DiSogra, Delight E. Satter

M. Rosa Solorio, Hongjian Yu, E. Richard Brown, Lida M. Becerra, Lillian Gelberg

Solorio MR, Yu H, Brown ER, Becerra L, Gelberg L. A Comparison of Hispanic and White Adolescent Females' Use of Family Planning Services in California.

Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin, Jose J. Escarce, Dana Goldman, Hongjun Kan, Miriam J. Laugesen, Paul Shekelle

In light of rising expenditures for physicians' services and the scheduled decreases in the amounts Medicare pays for such services, this article identified the sources of change in the volume and intensity of Medicare physicians' services.

Charles A. DiSogra, Wei Yen, Michael Flood, Anthony Ramirez

Compiled with data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, this study found that more than three-quarters of a million low-income adults in Los Angeles County have a difficult time reliably putting enough food on the table and thus are considered "food insecure." ...

Delight E. Satter, Trang M. Le, Melissa S. Gatchell, Brenda F. Seals, Linda Burhansstipanov, Leslie L. Randall

Drawing on expert cancer prevention knowledge, this fact sheet is designed to provide information to AIAN community and tribal members on how to reduce their risk of developing cancer.

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, Alek Sripipatana, Beth L. Newman, Steven P. Wallace

This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in uninsured children's Medi-Cal/Healthy Family eligibility rates by state Assembly, Senate and Congressional districts, as well as by counties and the Los Angeles Service Planning Areas (SPAs).

Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby

This new study found that providing health insurance to the estimated 6.3 million Californians who are currently uninsured would increase direct health care expenditures within the state by about $7.4 ...

Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Wei Yen, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Charles A. DiSogra

This report summarizes selected findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. A broad range of health topics are addressed.

E. Richard Brown, Pamela L. Davidson, Hongjian Yu, Roberta Wyn, Ronald M. Andersen, Natasha Razack

Pamela L. Davidson, Ronald M. Andersen, Roberta Wyn, E. Richard Brown

Miriam J. Laugesen

Miriam J. Laugesen

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ying-Ying Meng, Ronald M. Andersen, Andrew B. Bindman, Lillian Gelberg

Where Californians live within the state plays an important role in determining their access to health care.

Delight E. Satter, Native Research Network Board of Directors

The Native Research Network: Promoting Culturally Sensitive Research in Indigenous Communities. The IHS Provider.

Miriam J. Laugesen

Miriam J. Laugesen

Roberta Wyn, Victoria D. Ojeda

This study examines the health insurance coverage, health status, and access to care of California women ages 18-64.

Ninez A. Ponce, Susan H. Babey, David A. Etzioni, Benjamin A. Spencer, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This in-depth report describes cancer screening in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.

Delight E. Satter, Andrea Zubiate, Melissa S. Gatchell

This report details the findings from a series of focus groups on what young adults (ages 18-24) think is important to provide adolescents in sex education, sexuality education, and reproductive health.

Antronette Yancey, Melissa S. Gatchell, E. Richard Brown, William McCarthy, Allison L. Diamant

This fact sheet examines diabetes prevalence and risk factors among African Americans in California and offers several policy recommendations in response to these findings.

Delight E. Satter, Nilka Rios Burrows, Melissa S. Gatchell, Maile Tauali'i, D. Tecumseh Welch

This fact sheet examines diabetes prevalence, co-morbidities of diabetes, health insurance status, and access to care for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) in California and offers policy recommendations in response to these findings.

Ninez A. Ponce, Melissa S. Gatchell, E. Richard Brown

This fact sheet examines cancer screening rates for several Asian ethnic subgroups -- Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, South Asian, and Cambodian -- to identify specific populations at risk for not receiving preventive care.

Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey, Elizabeth Malcom, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This in-depth report describes asthma in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This report, based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), examines long-term and intermittent health insurance coverage, and the sources and consequences of resulting periods of uninsurance.

Joy H. Lewis, Ronald M. Andersen, Lillian Gelberg

Lewis J, Andersen R, Gelberg L. Health Care for Homeless Women: Unmet Needs and Barriers to Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. ...

Vickie M. Mays, Ninez A. Ponce, Donna L. Washington, Susan D. Cochran

Mays VM, Ponce NA, Washington DL, Cochran SD. Classification of Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Public Health.

Steven P. Wallace, Delight E. Satter, Andrea Zubiate

Planning and financing long-term care services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) elders is a challenge.

Steven P. Wallace, Veronica F. Gutierrez, E. Richard Brown

This health policy fact sheet presents information on selected indicators of the health status and access to health care of Mexican immigrants in California.

Steven P. Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Vilma Enriquez-Haass, Sripipatana Alek

This report provides detailed profiles of the health behavior, health status, preventive care, access to services, and demographics for Californians age 65 and over.

Neetu Chawla, Michael A. Rodriguez, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown

This fact sheet examines diabetes management and access to care among Latinos with diabetes in California.

Susan H. Babey, Ninez A. Ponce, David A. Etzioni, Benjamin A. Spencer, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This policy brief reports on cancer screening in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.

E. Richard Brown, Hongjian Yu, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Lida M. Becerra, Arindrajit Dube, Richard Kronick

This fact sheet provides estimates of the number of uninsured workers and uninsured dependents (spouses and children of workers) who would be eligible for coverage under the provisions of SB 2.

Gerald F. Kominski

This report describes how Tenet has turned the Medi-Cal Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program, which was created to keep safety net hospitals alive, into a corporate profit center.

Gerald F. Kominski, Dylan H. Roby

This study examines how recent trends toward concentration within the hospital industry among hospital chains and the increase in for-profit ownership affects access to affordable healthcare in Los Angeles.

Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, Kim Uyeda, Gregory D. Stevens, Sue Holtby, Janel Wright, E. Richard Brown

This report, prepared jointly by the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and the Public Health Institute, is the first of its kind to reveal key measures of health and well being for California's three million children under age 6.

Charles A. DiSogra, Wei Yen, Anthony Ramirez, Jennifer Aguayo

This fact sheet estimates population sizes and describes differences between food stamp recipients and non-recipients among California adults, ages 18-64, whose household income is below 130% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Steven P. Wallace, Hongjian Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Y. Jenny Chia, E. Richard Brown

This policy brief highlights the differences in uninurance rates among the new California Assembly and Senate districts resulting from redistricting based on the 2000 Census.

Gerald F. Kominski, Deborah Glik, Cori Reifman

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla

This report, prepared by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the first on diabetes prevalence among Californians using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001).

Delight E. Satter, Andrea Zubiate, Steven P. Wallace

Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are among the 10 leading chronic conditions causing restricted activity.

Nadereh Pourat, Gabrielle Lessard, Armine Lulejian, Lida M. Becerra, Rini Chakraborty

This fact sheet is a joint effort of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) using the 2001 California Health Interview Survey data.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research prepared this new fact sheet report as part of its participation in the Cover the Uninsured Week (CTUW) campaign - an unprecedented week long series of national and local activities taking place during the week of Monday, March 10, through Friday, March 14.

Dylan H. Roby, Sara Rosenbaum, Dan Hawkins

The findings in this study are derived from data collected from the Patient Experience Evaluation Report System (PEERS), a patient survey administered at a subset of health centers nationally in both 1993 and 2001.

Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa

Gerald F. Kominski, Pamela L. Davidson, Crystal L. Keeler, Natasha Razack, Lida M. Becerra, Rabeya Sen

The profile of California’s 17.7 million children and adults who are enrolled in HMO plans is more diverse than previously thought, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research report. The ...

Jennifer Aguayo, E. Richard Brown, Michael A. Rodriguez, Lia Margolis

This is a joint publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC).

Gail G. Harrison, Charles A. DiSogra, George Manolo-LeClair, Jennifer Aguayo, Wei Yen

More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table and, as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger.

Lillian Gelberg, Barbara D. Leake, Michael C. Lu, Ronald M. Andersen, Adeline M. Nyamathi, Hal Morgenstern

Delight E. Satter, Steven P. Wallace, Trang M. Le, Andrea Zubiate

Background: More American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) reside in California than any other single state in the United States; Los Angeles is home to the largest number of AIAN in the country.

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda

This report examines health insurance coverage in California based on the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001) data.

Anne Markus, Dylan H. Roby, Sara Rosenbaum

This study examines the characteristics of health centers that serve an unusually high rate of uninsured patients.

Nadereh Pourat, E. Richard Brown, Natasha Razack, William Kassler

Pourat N, Brown ER, Razack N, Kassler W. Medicaid Managed Care and STDs: Missed Opportunities to Control the Epidemic.

Roberta Wyn, Victoria D. Ojeda

This Policy Brief examines the health insurance coverage of single mothers in California, addressing the factors affecting their coverage, as well as changes in coverage between 1994-95 and 1998-99.

E. Richard Brown, Ying-Ying Meng, Susan H. Babey, Elizabeth Malcom

A study released by the Center examines the prevalence of asthma in California, the prevention and management of asthma symptoms, and the consequences of poorly managed asthma.

Ronald M. Andersen, Hongjian Yu, Roberta Wyn, Pamela L. Davidson, E. Richard Brown, Stephanie Teleki

Thomas Rice, Rani E. Snyder, Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat

Rice T, Synder RE, Kominski GF, Pourat N. Who Switches from Medigap to Medicare HMOs? Health Services Research. ...

Gerald F. Kominski, Paul A. Simon, Alex Ho, Jeff Luck, Yee Wei Lim, Jonathan E. Fielding

This study was designed to assess the burden of disease and injury in the Los Angeles County population using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), a composite measure of premature mortality and disability that equates to years of healthy life lost.

E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Lida M. Becerra

Gerald F. Kominski, Roxanne Andrews

Gerald F. Kominski, Laura B. Gardner

The Inpatient Hospital Fee Schedule and Outpatient Surgery study was initiated by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation to provide information on costs and areas of improvement related to the 1999 California Workers' Compensation Inpatient Hospital Fee Schedule (IHFS) and to evaluate the appropriateness of a fee schedule for outpatient surgery facility fees.

Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Danielle Ash, Hongjian Yu, Marianne Cantwell

Delight E. Satter

Satter DE. (2001) APHA Position Paper on the Health Status of American Indian and Alaska Natives, American Public Health Association resolution.

Ninez A. Ponce, Tomiko Conner, B. Patricia Barrera, Dong Suh

Gerald C. Sumner, Ronald M. Andersen, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Lillian Gelberg

Delight E. Satter

Satter, Delight (2001) Proceedings of the ASA, Joint Statistical Meetings: Epidemiology, Session No. 149, No.

Nadereh Pourat, Ronald M. Andersen, Steven P. Wallace

Pourat N, Andersen R, Wallace S. Postadmission Disparities in Nursing Homes Stays of Whites and Minority Elderly.

Lillian Gelberg, M. J. Robertston, Barbara D. Leake, Suzanne L. Wenzel, L. Bakhtiar, E. A. Hardie, N. Sadler, T. Getzug

Gelberg L, Robertson MJ, Leake B, Wenzel SL, Bakhtiar L, Hardie EA, Sadler N, Getzug T. Hepatitis B Among Homeless and Other Impoverished US Military Veterans in Residential Care in Los Angeles.

Lillian Gelberg, Barbara D. Leake, Michael C. Lu, Ronald M. Andersen, Suzanne L. Wenzel, P. Koegel, Carole Browner

Gelberg L, Leake B, Lu M, Andersen R, Wenzel S, Koegel P, Browner C. Use of Contraceptive Methods Among Homeless Women for Protection Against Unwanted Pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Prior Use and Willingness to Use in the Future.

E. Richard Brown, Ying-Ying Meng, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Hongjian Yu

Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Vilma Enriquez-Haass, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck

Gerald F. Kominski, Ronald M. Andersen, Roshan Bastani, Robert Gould, Charles Hackman, David Huang, Lissy Jarvik, Annette Maxwell, Jennifer Moye, Edwin Olsen, Robert Rohrbaugh, Joel Rosansky, Shane Taylor, William Van Stone

This study determines whether proactive screening of hospitalised patients can identify unrecognised comorbid psychiatric conditions, and whether comprehensive assessment and psychogeriatric intervention (UPBEAT) can improve care while reducing inpatient use.

E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice

E. Richard Brown, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Hongjian Yu

Linda Burhansstipanov, Delight E. Satter

This commentary provides a brief overview of American Indian and Alaskan populations in the United States and selected data issues.

E. Richard Brown, Roberta Wyn, Hongjian Yu, Abel Valenzuela, Liane Dong

Thomas Rice, Brian Biles, E. Richard Brown, Finn Diderichsen, Hagen Kuehn

Special section of Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, Vol. 25, Number 5, October 2000.

Nadereh Pourat, Thomas Rice, Gerald F. Kominski, Rani E. Snyder

Pourat N, Rice T, Kominski GF, Snyder R. Socioeconomic Differences in Medicare Supplemental Coverage.

Delight E. Satter, E. Richard Brown

On behalf of the Universal Coverage for California’s Children Coalition, Kaiser Permanente Cares for Kids (KPCK) asked the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (the Center) to study the attitudes, perceptions, and opinions of Californians with incomes between 200% – 275% of the federal poverty level about the value of health insurance for their children. Focus ...

Roberta Wyn, Victoria D. Ojeda

In a survey conducted by the California Alliance for Women’s Health Leadership, community-based leaders in women’s health recently identified as key issues lack of health insurance and lack of access to health care for women of color, those with low incomes, and younger women. Without ...

Roberta Wyn, Sarah Samuels, Joanne Leslie, Beatriz Solis

(Co-Published by the Pacific Institute for Women's Health) Managed care is becoming the dominant system of health care coverage and delivery throughout the United States and particularly in California, for both private and public sector health care.

Delight E. Satter, E. Richard Brown

E. Richard Brown, Roberta Wyn, Stephanie Teleki

U.S. metropolitan areas are characterized by pronounced disparities in rates of health insurance coverage and access to care.

Health DATA

California Policy Research Center, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nadereh Pourat

Kagawa-Singer M, Pourat N. Asian American and Pacific Islander Breast and Cervical Carcinoma Screening Rates and Healthy People 2000 Objectives.

Roberta Wyn, Stephanie Teleki, E. Richard Brown

A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Roberta Wyn, Sarah Samuels, Joanne Leslie, Beatriz Solis

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, The Kaiser Family Foundation

Co-published by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research & The Kaiser Family Foundation. Drawn from "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care." ...

E. Richard Brown, John Nakashima, Nadereh Pourat, Natasha Razack, Sylvia Chu

This report examines the extent to which managed care organizations (MCOs) that serve Medicaid beneficiaries are promoting effective management, control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among their enrollees—and whether these organizations’ policies correspond with the actual practices of the primary care providers in their networks.

Jennifer R. Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown, Hongjian Yu

Report to the California Assembly Health Committee Based on Research Funded by a Technical Assistance ...

Thomas Rice, Ninez A. Ponce, Stephanie Teleki, E. Richard Brown

Over 3.8 million working adults in California have no health insurance. Lack of employment-based coverage is a significant driver of uninsurance.

Helen Halpin Schauffler, Sara McMenamin

Cigarette smoking remains the single most preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US and California.

E. Richard Brown, Victoria D. Ojeda, Roberta Wyn, Rebecca Levan

Racial and ethnic groups in the United States continue to experience major disparities in health status.

Ninez A. Ponce, Stephanie Teleki, E. Richard Brown

More than 2 million children in California do not have any form of health insurance. The proportion of uninsured children in the state has increased over the past several years (from 17% in 1995 to 21% in 1998) and is significantly higher than in the rest of the nation (15% in 1998).

Lillian Gelberg, Ronald M. Andersen, Barbara D. Leake

Gelberg L, Andersen R, Leake B. The Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations: Application to Medical Care Use and Outcomes for Homeless People.

Nadereh Pourat, James Lubben, Hongjian Yu, Steven P. Wallace

Pourat N, Lubben J, Yu H, Wallace S. Perceptions of Health and Utilization of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly.

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

This report is the product of a collaborative effort between the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy

Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Jeanne T. Black

This report provides information on how other states are using Relative Value Scales, including the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) used by Medicare, as part of their workers compensation programs.

Delight E. Satter

Approximately 1.9 million people self-identified as AIAN in the 1990 Census. There are 554 federally recognized Indian tribes in the U.S; ...

Sara Rosenbaum, Anne Markus, Dylan H. Roby

This analysis, prepared for the Health Care Financing Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration, examines issues that arise under laws designed to avert excessive cost-sharing in the case of low income families whose children participate in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Anne Markus, Sara Rosenbaum, Dylan H. Roby

This paper presents the principal findings of more than 30 articles and reports on premiums and cost-sharing.

Ninez A. Ponce, J. W. Peabody, F. Dewallens

Ponce NA, Peabody JW, and Dewallens F, "A Legislative Framework for Health Care Reform in Macedonia: Short and Long Term Solutions." ...