A new issue of our Health Equity Forum newsletter was released today and it starts off July with a lot of great articles and resources highlighting efforts to improve health and equity in California. CPEHN’s Executive Director, Sarah de Guia,…
Please join us at the latest event in our Focus on Equity series! After successful events in Fresno, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and most recently Riverside, we are coming to Sacramento in July. The Affordable Care Act has changed…
Your support is needed for SB 4 (Lara), the Health for All Act, which is being heard in the Assembly Health Committee on July 7th at 1:30 PM. In this year’s budget, the state invested $40 million to expand health care coverage to…
The tides of justice surged through this morning when the Supreme Court affirmed marriage equality nationwide. While 37 states and the District of Columbia currently recognize same-sex marriage, now under the 14th Amendment, all 50 states must issue marriage licenses to…
This morning, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) premium tax credits available in all states. As he did in the Court’s previous decision on the ACA in 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion.…
A couple weeks back, we wrote about how San Francisco took a key step toward reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by passing an ordinance requiring warning labels on advertisements for the products. We also talked about ongoing efforts at the…
This post was originally published by Kidsdata.org. Ground-level ozone, which is formed from car and power plant emissions and is a primary component of smog, poses considerable health risks for all, but especially for children. At the start of the…
Your support is needed to ensure consumers are informed about their health insurance benefits and know which doctors and hospitals are in their networks. Urge the California Assembly Committee on Health to pass legislation requiring translation of a health plan’s…
The work of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is an invaluable resource for us at CPEHN and for everyone working on achieving equity in health. As the leading federal agency for health services research, AHRQ’s annual National…
Earlier today, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research hosted a webinar to look at the current state of available data on sexual orientation and gender identity and how the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) has played a key role…