Steven P Wallace, D Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Susan E Smith
New calculations using the Elder Economic Security Standard (TM) Index (Elder Index) for California show that both singles and couples age 65 or older who rent need more than twice the amount established by the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) Guideline to meet basic living expenses. The gap is greater for elders who own their home and are paying a mortgage than for renters. The gap between basic expenses and the FPL is smaller for owners without a mortgage, but still exists. Housing and health care are the primary drivers of the high costs. This policy brief documents that the Elder Index provides a better measure of income adequacy than the FPL for older adults because it accounts for those costs at the county level. The growing number of public and nonprofit organizations using the Elder Index will aid the quality of planning and programs that improve income security for California's rapidly growing older population.
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Allison L Diamant, Susan H Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Malia Jones
The prevalence of both diabetes and obesity has grown significantly in California. Six million adults are obese and an additional 9.3 million are overweight. Obesity is a significant risk factor for diabetes; more than two million adults have been diagnosed with diabetes in California. Obesity and diabetes disproportionately affect people of color, the poor and those with the least education in California. Policy and environmental changes that promote and encourage physical activity and healthy eating will likely prove most effective in combating obesity and related conditions
{"title":"Obesity and diabetes: two growing epidemics in California.","authors":"Allison L Diamant, Susan H Babey, Joelle Wolstein, Malia Jones","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence of both diabetes and obesity has grown significantly in California. Six million adults are obese and an additional 9.3 million are overweight. Obesity is a significant risk factor for diabetes; more than two million adults have been diagnosed with diabetes in California. Obesity and diabetes disproportionately affect people of color, the poor and those with the least education in California. Policy and environmental changes that promote and encourage physical activity and healthy eating will likely prove most effective in combating obesity and related conditions</p>","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-7","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29296120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Grant, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, William M Sribney, May Aydin, E Richard Brown
In 2005, nearly one in five adults in California, about 4.9 million people, said they needed help for a mental or emotional health problem. Approximately one in 25, or over one million Californians, reported symptoms associated with serious psychological distress (SPD). Of those adults with either perceived need or SPD, only one in three reported visiting a mental health professional for treatment. This policy brief, based on data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), presents the first comprehensive overview of mental health status and service use in California, and highlights differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, income and insurance status. It also demonstrates the critical need for continued efforts to expand mental health services and threats to such services caused by the ongoing state budget crisis.
{"title":"Mental health status and use of mental health services by California adults.","authors":"David Grant, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, William M Sribney, May Aydin, E Richard Brown","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2005, nearly one in five adults in California, about 4.9 million people, said they needed help for a mental or emotional health problem. Approximately one in 25, or over one million Californians, reported symptoms associated with serious psychological distress (SPD). Of those adults with either perceived need or SPD, only one in three reported visiting a mental health professional for treatment. This policy brief, based on data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2005), presents the first comprehensive overview of mental health status and service use in California, and highlights differences by age, gender, race/ethnicity, income and insurance status. It also demonstrates the critical need for continued efforts to expand mental health services and threats to such services caused by the ongoing state budget crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-6","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29178329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health insurance coverage is a key component of access to the health care system. For women, such coverage facilitates access to the array of services they require across their lifetimes. This 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. The information in the brief is based on data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2007).
{"title":"Nearly 2.5 million nonelderly California women uninsured at some time during 2007.","authors":"Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health insurance coverage is a key component of access to the health care system. For women, such coverage facilitates access to the array of services they require across their lifetimes. This 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. The information in the brief is based on data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2007).</p>","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-5","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29188603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven P Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Eva Durazo, Rosana Leos
{"title":"Older Californians at risk for avoidable falls.","authors":"Steven P Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Eva Durazo, Rosana Leos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-3","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29040642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, May Aydin, Y Jenny Chia, D Imelda Padilla-Frausto
{"title":"Nearly four million California adults are victims of intimate partner violence.","authors":"Elaine Zahnd, David Grant, May Aydin, Y Jenny Chia, D Imelda Padilla-Frausto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-2","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29040641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shana Alex Lavarreda, E Richard Brown, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H Roby
{"title":"Number of uninsured jumped to more than eight million from 2007 to 2009.","authors":"Shana Alex Lavarreda, E Richard Brown, Livier Cabezas, Dylan H Roby","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-4","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28909029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This policy brief examines the health issues and health care access of women ages 50-64.While the need for effective and accessible health care applies to all women, there are distinct social, economic and health issues within each age group. Women ages 50-64 often face new and accelerated health issues and have more concern for management of health conditions. Using data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2007) this brief examines several of the health issues for women in this age group and the role of health insurance coverage.
{"title":"Health and health care access among California women ages 50-64.","authors":"Roberta Wyn, Erin Peckham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This policy brief examines the health issues and health care access of women ages 50-64.While the need for effective and accessible health care applies to all women, there are distinct social, economic and health issues within each age group. Women ages 50-64 often face new and accelerated health issues and have more concern for management of health conditions. Using data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2007) this brief examines several of the health issues for women in this age group and the role of health insurance coverage.</p>","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2010-1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28909028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dylan H Roby, Cori Reifman, Anna Davis, Allison L Diamant, Ying-Ying Meng, Gerald F Kominski, Zina Kally, Nadereh Pourat
{"title":"Creation of safety-net-based provider networks under the California Health Care Coverage Initiative: interim findings.","authors":"Dylan H Roby, Cori Reifman, Anna Davis, Allison L Diamant, Ying-Ying Meng, Gerald F Kominski, Zina Kally, Nadereh Pourat","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2009-11","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28633575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unaffordable dental care is linked to frequent school absences.","authors":"Nadereh Pourat, Gina Nicholson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82329,"journal":{"name":"Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)","volume":" PB2009-10","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28548146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}