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Health in Brief : The Hmong in California: A Case Study
California is home to nearly 10 million immigrants. The unique perspectives, cultures and languages of immigrant and refugee communities profoundly affect their interactions with the health care system and impact their ability to access necessary health and mental health services. The California Endowment's latest Health…In Brief presents the policies and programs the Hmong community identified to make health and mental health services more culturally appropriate. These policy recommendations also can be more broadly applied to other refugee, immigrant and ethnic communities.
Health...In Brief : Improving Access to Health Care for LEP Health Care Consumers
Language barriers may result in increased risks of medication errors, longer emergency room stays and higher health care costs. To overcome those barriers, language assistance services, such as interpreters and translation of written health or medical materials, are essential. This brief presents policy options for how California can obtain federal reimbursement for such services and provides reimbursement models that have been developed in other parts of the country.
Health…In Brief: Health Insurance Coverage for All Children: A Goal Within Reach
It is well-documented that health insurance improves the health of children. Yet, about 1 million California children age 18 and under lack health insurance. Providing health coverage for all children is not only a worthwhile social goal, it is a feasible policy objective that makes good financial sense for California now and in the future.
Health…In Brief: Helping Our Kids Breathe Easier -- Policy Solutions in The Fight Against Childhood Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting 4.8 million children nationwide and accounting for one-third of all pediatric emergency room visits. In California, 10 percent of children 18 years of age and under have been diagnosed with asthma.
Health…In Brief: Increasing the Diversity of The Nursing Work Force: A Strategy to Address the Nursing Shortage and Improve Quality of Care
This brief addresses the state’s severe nursing shortage – and how long-term solutions must include strategies to prepare California’s rapidly growing, diverse, young populations as candidates for the nursing profession. Such efforts to diversify the adequate supply of nurses, but also to promote access and quality of health care fornursing work force are essential not only to create an California’s diverse population.
Health…in Brief: The Health Care Safety Net: Challenged Like Never Before, Needed More Than Ever
This policy brief examines the strain under which California’s county hospitals and clinics, as well as nonprofit clinics, are currently operating, and details the work of The California Endowment’s Community Clinics Initiative.
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Health Insurance Coverage for All Children: A Goal Within Reach
This publication presents information on public opinion about children’s coverage, the results of research studies on why health coverage makes good financial sense and is the right thing to do, and background on successful efforts in several California counties to insure all children. There are also a number of policy goals that, if adopted, will make coverage for all California’s children a reality.
Health in Brief…California Communities Lead the Way in Covering All Kids
Prepared by The California Endowment, this brief describes concrete efforts to reform and simplify the health care system and presents policy changes that will sustain and expand them to enable all children to obtain health insurance and become healthy productive members of society.
Health...In Brief: Preventing Obesity in California
This policy brief explores California’s growing obesity crisis, examines some promising new approaches to addressing the problem and recommends policy changes needed to stem the rising tide of this serious, but preventable, epidemic.

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