Access to Care
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA)
Five Years into the Affordable Care Act: California Leads the Way
A report from Health Access, highlights California’s achievements in implementing and improving on the ACA and highlights communities that have the most to gain.
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Which Californians will Lack Health Insurance Under the Affordable Care Act?
A report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, uses the California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) to estimate the number of remaining uninsured in 2019.
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California Eligibility and Enrollment Report: Insurance Affordability Programs
A report from the California Department of Health Care Services and Covered California, provides an official summary of how many residents have gained health insurance and through which pathways.
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Health Reform 2.0: A Call to Action
A report from Families USA, outlines goals for health care system reform after the Affordable Care Act.
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COVERED CALIFORNIA
Young Adults More Likely to Qualify for Special Enrollment
A report from Young Invincibles, identifies the events that trigger special enrollment periods and demonstrates how young people are systematically more likely to qualify.
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Disease Matters: Comparing Prescription Drug Benefits in Covered California Plans
A report from the California HealthCare Foundation, offers insights into how barriers to necessary prescription drugs might further be reduced and how consumer access to drug cost and coverage information could be improved across the individual market.
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Characteristics of Those Eligible for Cost-Sharing Reductions and Premium Tax Credits Under the Affordable Care Act
A report from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute, describes the characteristics of individuals eligible for both cost-sharing reductions and premium tax credits and compares them to those eligible for premium tax credits alone.
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Visualizing Health Policy: Premium Changes in the Affordable Care Act’s Insurance Marketplaces 2014-2015
A resource from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, illustrates the change in monthly premiums by county, and select cities, from 2014 to 2015 for a 40-year-old person covered by the silver “benchmark” plan in ACA insurance marketplaces.
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MEDI-CAL
Taking Control of Your Health: A Guide to Medi-Cal for Recipients of DACA
A report from the California Immigrant Policy Center, Educators for Fair Consideration, and the Dream Resource Center, clarifies questions about immigrants and Medi-Cal eligibility and addresses challenges to health care access.
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Medi-Cal Managed Care: Raising the Bar for Quality and Outcomes
A report from Insure the Uninsured Project, focuses on efforts to improve quality and outcomes in Medi-Cal Managed Care.
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CULTURAL & LINGUISTIC
A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
A resource from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health, equips health care providers with competencies that will help them to better treat diverse populations.
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Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide
A resource from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health, lays out the basic steps for implementing linguistically accessible services.
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OTHER
Uneven Terrain: Mapping Palliative Care Need and Supply in California
A resource from the California HealthCare Foundation, illustrates the estimated need for palliative care in each California county among patients in the last year of life.
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Using CMS Data for Research on Disparities in Health and Health Care
A resource from the Research Data Assistance Center, shows how to use data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to identify and address health disparities.
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Private Insurance Advocacy Checklist: Getting to Know Your State’s Health Insurance Landscape
A resource from Families USA, helps advocates and consumers understand who makes decisions about private insurance in their states.
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State-Level Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
A resource from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center, shows the percentage of private sector workers who receive health insurance through their employers has fallen significantly since the early 2000s.
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Consumer Assets and Patient Cost Sharing
A report from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, shows that many households, particularly those with lower incomes or where someone lacks insurance, struggle to meet health insurance cost sharing demands.
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Prevention
HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING
Proposed CACFP Meal Pattern Rule: What Californians Need to Know to Comment
A fact sheet from California Food Policy Advocates, details how stakeholders can comment on the new proposed meal pattern rule for the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
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LAND USE
Conservation Horizons: Keeping Conservation and Land Trusts Vital for the Next Age
A report from the California Council of Land Trusts, examines the importance of land conservation and how land trusts benefit California’s residents.
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SAFETY
Community Safety: A Building Block for Community Health
A report from Prevention Institute, the Advancement Project, and The California Endowment, showcases strategies recommended by Building Healthy Communities sites to make communities safer, such as economic opportunity and community cohesion.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Why We Need Climate, Health, and Equity in All Policies
An article from Public Health Institute, examines how climate change and health measures should be considered in all policy decisions.
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SMOKING
State Health Officer’s Report on E-Cigarettes: A Community Health Threat
A report from the California Department of Public Health, includes data about adult and youth use of electronic cigarettes, reported poisonings, and purchasing trends in California.
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Vaping Puts Public Health Gains at Risk
An article from Prevention Institute, details the public health risks of electronic cigarettes.
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OTHER
An Evaluation of Health Impact Assessments in the United States, 2011–2014
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, examines results of health impact assessments in the United States and identifies elements critical for their success.
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Other
MENTAL HEALTH
Exploring Low-Income Californians’ Needs and Preferences for Behavioral Health Care
A report from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, reinforces the need to connect and simplify the systems that serve the behavioral health needs of our state’s most vulnerable patients.
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One-Stop Shopping: Efforts to Integrate Physical and Behavioral Health Care in Five California Community Health Centers
A report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, examines efforts to provide medical care and behavioral health services in a single community-based setting.
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Why More Practices Are Merging Behavioral Health and Primary Care
A recording from the Commonwealth Fund, looks at the challenges and benefits of coordinating physical and mental health care.
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BUDGET
Due to State Cuts, SSI/SSP Grants Lose Ground to Housing Costs
A report from the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), shows how recent years’ state cuts have caused Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Payment grants to lose ground to housing costs.
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Navigating the State Budget Process
An infographic from the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), illustrates the year-round state budget cycle.
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VOTING
Community Voices: Improving Access to Voting for California’s Limited-English Proficiency Communities
A policy brief from Greenlining Institute, examines language barriers to voting for LEP populations in California and offers recommendations to increase access.
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States of Change: The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060
A report from the Center for American Progress, examines demographic trends in each of the 50 states and the country as a whole.
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OTHER
My Brother’s Keeper Task Force: One-Year Progress Report to the President
A report from the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, addresses opportunity gaps that often prevent boys and young men of color and other young people from realizing their potential.
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Reproductive Health Metadata Project
A resource from the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center, helps researchers and students learn more about available reproductive health data in California and Los Angeles County.
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The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters
A report from Demos and the Institute for Assets & Social Policy at Brandeis University, evaluate the impact of housing, education, and labor markets on the wealth gap between White, Black, and Latino households and assesses how policies that equalize outcomes in these areas could reduce the gap.
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Leveraging Anchor Institutions for Economic Inclusion
A brief from PolicyLink, offers strategies to maximize the equity impacts of anchor institutions, including investing in neighborhoods, fostering innovation, expanding procurement opportunities, and engaging in workforce development.
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Opportunities for Enhanced Collaboration: Public Health Departments and Accountable Care Organizations
A brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, examines how enhanced collaboration between public health and ACOs could improve population health.
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Towards Sustainable Improvements in Population Health: Overview of Community Integration Structures and Emerging Innovations in Financing
A brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses innovative ways to finance public health interventions.
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