Access to Care
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA)
ACA 411: Tracking Health Reform in California
A resource from the California HealthCare Foundation, provides baseline and trend data to help illustrate how the ACA is changing insurance coverage, access to health care, and affordability in California.
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California’s Previously Uninsured After The ACA’s Second Open Enrollment Period
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, tracks the experiences and views of a sample of Californians who were uninsured prior to the ACA.
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California Eligibility and Enrollment Report: Insurance Affordability Programs
A report from the California Department of Health Care Services, provides demographic data on enrollment in Medi-Cal and Covered California.
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New Estimates of Eligibility for ACA Coverage among the Uninsured
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides national and state-by-state estimates of eligibility for ACA coverage options among those who remained uninsured.
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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Asian India, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Pakistani, and Vietnamese Americans
A report from the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians, highlights the ACA’s impact in many Asian ethnic subgroups on rates of uninsurance and how these populations face key social gaps including lower income, low English proficiency, and education.
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2015 Survey of Health Insurance Marketplace Assister Programs and Brokers
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, highlights the experiences of assistance programs for insurance marketplaces, including Covered California.
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Enrollment Fact Sheets
A resource from Families USA, offers tools to help with enrollment, such as brochures, fact sheets, and consumer health insurance FAQs.
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MEDI-CAL
Adult Medi-Cal Enrollment Surges, Uninsured Rate Plummets in 2014
A fact sheet from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, uses 2014 California Health Interview Survey data to show the statewide impact of major health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act.
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Medi-Cal Versus Employer-Based Coverage: Comparing Access to Care
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, compares differences in access to care for Medi-Cal enrollees to those with employer-sponsored insurance.
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Medi-Cal Versus Medicaid in Other States: Comparing Access to Care
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, looks at how Medi-Cal compares with Medicaid programs in other states.
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Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Over Time
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, examines trends in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility limits over time for children, pregnant women, parents, and other adults.
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Medicaid: An Essential Program for States and Their Residents
A fact sheet from Families USA, explores the impact the Medicaid program has on the lives of low-income populations across the country.
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SAFETY NET
Behavioral and Physical Health Service Integration in California’s Safety Net: Six County Profiles
A report from Insure the Uninsured Project, examines behavioral and physical health integration in the safety net in six California counties.
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IMMIGRANTS
Creating Conditions to Support Healthy People: State Policies that Affect the Health of Undocumented Immigrants and Their Families
A report from the University of California Glboal Health Institute, the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America, and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, focuses on state policies that affect the social determinants of health and that impact immigrants’ ability to live healthy lives.
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Immigrant Outreach: Applying Health Care Enrollment Best Practices to Deferred Action
A report from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, examines successful strategies in health insurance outreach for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program (DACA).
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Immigration Relief for Parents and Youth = Whole Family Health Coverage in California
A report from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families and The Children’s Partnership, provides information about DAPA and DACA and ideas about how to conduct outreach and enroll parents and children in DAPA and DACA families into health coverage programs.
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Key Facts: Helping Families That Include Immigrants Apply for Health Coverage
A fact sheet from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, provides information about key concerns families with immigrants may have when completing the health coverage application process.
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Key Facts: Immigrant Eligibility for Health Insurance Affordability Programs
A fact sheet from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, explains the eligibility requirements for immigrants in health coverage programs.
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The California Health Care Landscape
A fact sheet from the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides an overview of population health, health coverage, and the health care delivery system in California in the era of health reform.
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Locally Sourced: The Crucial Role of Counties in the Health of Californians
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, provides an overview of county health services and programs across the traditional silos of medical care, behavioral health, and public health
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Directory Assistance: Maintaining Reliable Provider Directories for Health Plan Shoppers
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, examines policy, operational, business, and technical obstacles to well-functioning, integrated provider directories and how they have been overcome.
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Cancer Care Spending in California: What Medicare Data Say
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, provides a baseline of cancer care spending for Medicare fee-for-service patients and underscores the need for additional data linkages and access to data to gain a more complete understanding of the financial burden of non-Medicare oncology care in this state.
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California Hospitals: An Evolving Environment
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, examines the state’s hospitals, including bed supply and capacity, use of services, financial health, and selected quality measures.
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Improving the Accuracy of Health Insurance Plans’ Provider Directories
A brief from Families USA, explains the steps policymakers and health plans can take to improve directories and provides examples of legislation and regulation to help eliminate provider directory inaccuracies.
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The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare
A report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), provides an action-oriented, results-driven approach for advancing health equity by improving the quality of care provided to communities of color and other underserved Medicare beneficiaries.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Utilization of Care among Insured Adults
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, examines differences in access to and utilization of care for Black and Latino adults compared to White adults among those who are uninsured, enrolled in Medicaid, and privately insured.
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Prevention
HEALTHY EATING
Lost Dollars, Empty Plates 2015
A report from California Food Policy Advocates, examines the impact that increased participation in CalFresh would have on state, local, and household budgets.
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Rural Community Profiles: Stories About Improving Nutrition, Increasing Physical Activity, and Making Schools Healthier
A resource from ChangeLab Solutions, focuses on a number of factors that influence health in rural areas.
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Lessons from the Lunchroom: Childhood Obesity, School Lunch, and the Way to a Healthier Future
A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, examines the effectiveness of school food programs on reducing obesity in children.
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Food Advertising Targeted to Hispanic and Black Youth: Contributing to Health Disparities
A report from the University of Connecticut Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network, and Salud America, examines targeted marketing tactics for unhealthy foods and how they disproportionately impact communities of color.
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LAND USE/TRANSPORTATION
At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity: Joining Forces to Make Communities Healthier and Fairer
A report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, explores the complexities of equitable active transportation and efforts to advance walking and bicycling to increase health, fairness, and opportunity for all communities.
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The Social Determinants of Health for Planners: Live, Work, Play, Learn!
A report from the California Planning Roundtable, helps promote dialogue and collaboration between planning and public health during planning processes.
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Grading California’s Rail Transit Station Areas: A Ranking of How Well They Accommodate Population Growth, Boost Economic Activity and Improve the Environment
A report from the Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law, studies and grades the neighborhoods within 1/2-mile radius stations in six California rail transit systems, serving over 60% of the state’s population.
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Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use Network
A resource from Prevention Institute, brings together community stakeholders to examine the underlying barriers to more equitable land-use planning practices and identify opportunities to invest in health infrastructure in low-income communities of color; support community engagement in land-use decision-making; open the door for pilot projects in low-income neighborhoods; and foster cross-sector collaboration to embed health and equity in all land-use decisions.
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Complete Parks Playbook: The Seven Elements of a Safe, Connected, and Healthy Parks System
A resource from ChangeLab Solutions, provides an overview of the seven elements of a complete parks system and includes both a successful community example of each element and a list of valuable resources.
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Is Your Neighborhood Designed to Support Physical Activity? A Brief Streetscape Audit Tool
An article in Preventing Chronic Disease, analyzes a tool that is used to determine how well a neighborhood is designed for physical activity.
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Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities
A resource from the Surgen General of the United States, highlights the new national initiative to promote walking and increase walkability in communities across the country.
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Everyone Walks. Understanding and Addressing Pedestrian Safety
A report from the Governors Highway Safety Association, provides an overview of current pedestrian safety data and research and how states are addressing pedestrian safety through education, enforcement, and legislative initiatives.
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New Climate for Transportation: How the City of San Diego and SANDAG Must Improve Transportation to Meet Climate Goals
A report from Circulate San Diego and Climate Action Campaign, examines transportation policy in San Diego and how it could better address climate change and the environment.
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TransNet Today: Keeping Faith with the Voters While Achieving the Region’s Transportation Goals
A report from TransForm and Circulate San Diego, examines San Diego’s regional transportation planning and offers recommendations for improvement.
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SAFETY
Taking Back the Streets and Sidewalks: How Safe Routes to School and Community Safety Initiatives Can Overcome Violence and Crime
A report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, provides a primer to address community safety threats that may discourage or endanger students walking or bicycling to school.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Lessons on Climate Change and Poverty From the California Drought
A report from the Center for American Progress, explores the intersection of climate change and inequality in the context of the California drought, highlighting the unique and disproportionate challenges faced by California’s low-income and farming communities.
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Climate Benefits for California
A resource from TransForm, examines how California’s climate investment program is making communities more healthy, sustainable, and fair.
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California’s Climate Investments: 10 Case Studies Reducing Poverty & Pollution
A report from Greenlining Institute, examines 10 projects and evaluates the initial success of the state’s climate investments in assisting underserved communities.
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California’s Golden Energy Efficiency Opportunity: Ramping Up Success to Save Billions and Meet Climate Goals
A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Entrepreneurs, examines what Californians are getting out of the more than $1 billion invested in energy-saving programs, buildings codes, and appliance standards every year.
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California Latino Voter Environment and Climate Poll
A resource from Latino Decisions, Presente.org, Communities for a Better Environment, the California Environmental Justice Alliance, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, and the Greenlining Institute, surveys Latinos across California about climate change and the environment.
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SMOKING
Smokefree Multi-Unit Housing Roadmap
A resource from ChangeLab Solutions, highlights policy options to protect tenants from secondhand smoke.
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A Model California Ordinance Regulating Smoking in Multi-Unit Residences
A resource from ChangeLab Solutions, features a comprehensive ordinance to limit exposure to secondhand smoke in multi-unit residences, such as apartment buildings, condominium complexes, senior housing, and single resident occupancy hotels.
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cumulative Environmental Health Impacts in California: Evidence From a Statewide Environmental Justice Screening Tool
An article in the American Journal of Public Health, includes research from UC Berkeley that shows how environmental hazards disproportionately impact communities of color in California.
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Moving from Understanding to Action on Health Equity: Social Determinants of Health Frameworks and THRIVE
A resource from Prevention Institute, provides an overview of the development of THRIVE (Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments), and reviews its purposes and uses.
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Profiles in Prevention: Los Angeles County
A report from Prevention Institute, highlight key strategies, policies, and practices that promote health across Los Angeles communities – highlighting how communities can work together to promote access to healthier foods and beverages, and safer places for people to walk, bike and exercise.
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MENTAL HEALTH
Traditions of Health Project: Culturally Relevant Integration
A resource from the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, aims to improve the integration of behavioral health and primary care for Urban Indians by advancing the cultural revitalization efforts of Urban Indian Health Organizations in California.
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California’s Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Initiatives Show Promising Early Results, But Sustained Investment Is Needed
A brief from RAND Corporation, summarizes some of the key current findings for CalMHSA’s Statewide Prevention and Early Intervention programs.
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Behavioral Health Equity Barometer: United States, 2014
A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, provides a one year snapshot of the state of behavioral health of youth and adults by demographics and insurance status.
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ORAL HEALTH
Medi-Cal Dental Services Rate Review
A report from the California Department of Health Care Services, examines the rate structure for Medi-Cal dental providers and their participation in the program.
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Adult Dental Benefits in Medicaid: Recent Experiences from Seven States
A brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy, summarizes policy lessons from seven states, including California, that have recently added, reinstated, or enhanced their Medicaid adult dental benefits.
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Moving from Goal to Impact: A Quality Improvement Approach to Advancing Children’s Oral Health in Medicaid
A report from the Center for Health Care Strategies, describes a step-by-step approach to help states design effective State Oral Health Action Plans for meeting oral health improvement goals.
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Engaging Schools to Support Better Oral Health for Low-Income Children
A report from the Center for Health Care Strategies, describes the role that school-based oral health programs can play to address oral health concerns in low-income children, and outlines opportunities for state Medicaid agencies and public health programs to advance these efforts.
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Medicaid Oral Health Performance Improvement Projects Resources
A resource from the Center for Health Care Strategies, guides states and health plans through the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating children’s oral health performance improvement projects.
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The Oral Health Crisis Among Native Americans
A fact sheet from the Pew Charitable Trusts, examines oral health disparities faced by Native Americans across the country.
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EDUCATION
Affirming Equal Opportunity and Access in the University of California so California Prospers
A brief from the Campaign for College Opportunity, examines the effects of Proposition 209 on the University of California system by analyzing twenty years’ of application, admission, and enrollment data.
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The State of Higher Education in California: Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Report
A report from the Campaign for College Opportunity, seeks to portray a more accurate picture of Asian Americans and NHPIs in higher education in California by analyzing data disaggregated by ethnicity when possible to highlight the needs and issues of Asian American and NHPI students.
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The State of Higher Education in California: Black Report
A report from the Campaign for College Opportunity, calls for a concerted, strategic effort to produce better educational outcomes for Black students.
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The State of Higher Education in California: Latino Report
A report from the Campaign for College Opportunity, examines the state of Latinos in California’s higher education system.
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HOUSING/DISPLACEMENT
How Housing Vouchers Can Help Address California’s Rental Crisis
A report from the California Budget and Policy Center, examines how California’s housing shortage has impacted renters in the state.
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Equitable Development and Risk of Displacement: Profiles of Four Santa Fe Neighborhoods
A report from Human Impact Partners, analyze public resource allocation and risk of displacement in neighborhoods.
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ASTHMA
A Path Forward: Sustainable Financing for Asthma Education and Home Environmental Trigger Remediation in California
A report from Regional Asthma Management and Prevention, is a call to action for the California Department of Health Care Services, Medi-Cal managed care organizations, foundations, hospital community benefit programs, social impact investors, and others to seize opportunities to improve the lives of people with asthma.
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Asthma Environmental Intervention Guide for School-Based Health Centers
A resource from Regional Asthma Management and Prevention and the California School-Based Health Alliance, supports school-based health center staff in leading or supporting evidence-based strategies and promising practices to reduce exposure to environmental asthma triggers.
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Community Based Approaches for Optimal Asthma Outcomes and Accountable Population Health
A report from the Center for Health Policy at the Brookings Institution and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, reviews the evidence on opportunities for improving outcomes and lowering costs by better addressing the social determinants of asthma.
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POVERTY/INCOME
The Hidden Poor: Over Three-Quarters of a Million Older Californians Overlooked by Official Poverty Line
A report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, highlights the plight of those who live in the gap between the federal poverty level and the Elder Index’s poverty measure, a more accurate estimate of what it takes to have a decent standard of living.
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Struggling to Get By: The Real Cost Measure in California 2015
A report from the United Ways of California, introduces the Real Cost Measure, a basic needs budget approach to better understand the challenges facing California households.
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How California’s Workforce Is Changing and Why State Policy Has to Change With It
A report from the California Budget and Policy Center, highlights four key trends in how California’s workforce has changed and discusses what they mean for state policy.
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Low-Wage Work in California: 2014 Chartbook
A report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, focuses on the state of low-wage work in California and the growing inequities in employment.
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Finding Time: Millennial Parents, Poverty and Rising Costs
A report from Young Invincibles, examine the average days of young parents compared to the average days of young adults without children.
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Economic Growth Leaves the Poorest Americans Behind: At the Current Rate, it Would Take a Quarter Century to Cut Poverty in Half
A report from the Coalition on Human Needs, analyzes the Census Bureau’s poverty and income data for 2014 shows that even under the optimistic assumption that poverty continues to decline at the same rate it did from 2013 to 2014, it would take until 2040 for the poverty rate to be cut in half.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Adding Insult to Injury: The Criminalization of Homelessness and Its Effects on Youth
A report from the California Homeless Youth Project, highlights the plight of unaccompanied homeless youth and sounds the alarm that laws criminalizing their status are harmful, counterproductive and should not be tolerated.
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Power in Partnerships: Building Connections at the Intersections to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A report from Advancement Project, Equality Federation, and the Gay Straight Alliance Network, serves as a resource for LGBT and racial justice organizations interested in working together to address disparities in school discipline along lines of race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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Dignified & Just Policing Health Impact Assessment of the Townsend Street Gang Injunction in Santa Ana, Calif.
A report from Human Impact Partners, examines the impact the gang injunction has on crime, safety, community-police relationships, education, and employment.
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Portrait of Promise: The California Statewide Plan to Promote Health and Mental Health Equity
A report from the California Department of Public Health, Office of Health Equity, presents background and evidence on the root causes and consequences of health inequities in California and offers strategies for addressing them.
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Advancing Health Equity: Case Studies of Health Equity Practice in Four Award-Winning California Health Departments
A report from the Public Health Institute’s Berkeley Media Studies Group, explores what award-winning health departments are up to — their successes, challenges, vision for the future, and lessons learned in their efforts to ensure health equity.
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Leveraging Community Coalitions to Improve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health Data
A report from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, provides a summary of efforts to analyze health data sources and lessons learned from the national and state perspectives.
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Blueprint For a Better America: Ensuring Our Immigration System Advances the Health and Well-Being of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and All Immigrants
A report from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, offers concrete solutions, rooted in research and experience, to promote public health and shared economic wellbeing.
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Measuring Health Care Quality: An Overview of Quality Measures
A brief from Families USA, discusses why quality measurement is important in improving the quality of health care that patients receive.
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2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book
A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranks states on overall child wellbeing and in economic wellbeing, education, health, and family and community.
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Economic Analysis of the 2015 Drought for California Agriculture
A report from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, ERA Economics, and the UC Agricultural Issues Center, estimates the economic impact of the 2015 drought on agriculture and the effects of continued severe drought in 2016 and 2017.
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Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change
A report from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, examines the barriers that disadvantaged youth, particularly young men of color, face and quantifies the enormous costs this poses to the U.S. economy.
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Unlocking the Potential of Community Benefit: Building Health in the Central Valley
A fact sheet from Greenlining Institute, examines the processes used by hospitals to create community benefit plans and offers recommendations for improvement.
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