California Initiative for Health Equity & Action
@Cal_IHEA
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Envisioning a California where all people, regardless of their socioeconomic status, have the opportunity to live healthy and safe lives.
Joined April 2020
Recent study from @UCI @UCB examined racial and color differences in memory performance among 50+ year older adults in the U.S. and Puerto Rican older adults in Boston-->
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Findings support the importance of examining self-identified race and skin tone in Latino aging research. Further investigation is needed to understand the stubborn intra-Latino racial disparities in...
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Significance --> findings highlight the importance of reducing financial barriers to care to notably improve health equity and oncologic outcomes for African American patients.
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In this study of contrasting healthcare models, receiving medical care in an equal-access system was associated with reduced differences in stage at presentation and eliminated disparities in survival outcomes for African American patients with bladder cancer.
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Read--> https://t.co/yaEKQeLVZI
@UCSD compared outcomes by race for patients with bladder cancer receiving care within the predominant hybrid-payer healthcare model of the United States
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In this study of contrasting health-care models, receiving medical care in an equal-access system was associated with reduced differences in stage at presentation and eliminated disparities in...
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Make sure to check out @hastingscenter new website, Bioethics in Community Health, featuring their work on community health and immigrant health, with extensive links to resources for scholars, practitioners, and students —>
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Read recent issue brief by @hastingscenter on Strategies to Support Equitable Access to Precision Medicine for All of U.S. Participants from Federally Qualified Health Centers -->
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Cal-IHEA Director Hector Rodriguez was recently on the @health_affairs podcast #AHealthPodyssey with @alanrweil, discussing brick-and-mortar health care consolidation -->
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Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Hector Rodriguez UC Berkeley School of Public Health about the relationship between physician practice capabilities and service metrics,...
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New study!! Read about the Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Latinos During a Pandemic by @DrIranBarrera @FS_SocialWork -->
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Strikeout Toxic Stress! aims to increase parents' literacy in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive parenting among monolingual Spanish-speaking Latinos. Despite growing awareness of...
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What can be done? —> Services including prenatal care and nutritional assistance should address a wide range of serious unmet social needs, including food insecurity
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Findings-> Each additional severe maternal hardship a woman experienced during pregnancy was associated with a 36% greater risk of reporting marginal food security.
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Recent @UCB @UCD study calculated the prevalence of severe maternal hardships by food security status and found that food insecurity was common among low- and lower-income pregnant women in California -->
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Food security status was strongly linked with several maternal hardships that could jeopardize maternal and/or infant health. Services-including prenatal care and nutritional assistance-for a large...
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Significance--> Efforts are needed to minimize and discredit racially driven language and discrimination around COVID-19 and future epidemics.
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Results show that COVID-19-related discrimination is common, and it appears that the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities and marginalized communities.
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Findings--> A total of 22.1% of the participants reported experiencing discriminatory behaviors, and 42.7% reported that people acted afraid of them.
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Read--> https://t.co/c89CCmz9at Recent @UCSF study was done to determine the prevalence of COVID-19-related discrimination among major US racial/ethnic groups & estimate associations between discrimination, race/ethnicity, and other sociodemographic characteristics.
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Read a selection of our 2022 Health Equity Scholars' policy briefs in our newsletter -->
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So, what's the big picture? Significant social inequality in HPV vaccination among teenagers exists in the United States. This inequality can be distorted when only parent-reported vaccination information is used as opposed to provider records.
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Findings --> the HPV unvaccinated rate was found to be highest in the middle SES teens, regardless of vaccination information source.
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Recent @UCR study investigated whether there is a social disparity in HPV vaccination among teenagers, and if so, whether it differs according to the source of vaccination information-->
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Significant social inequality in HPV vaccination among teenagers exists in the United States. The pattern of social inequality in HPV vaccination can be distorted when only parent-reported vaccinat...
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As our 2022 Health Equity Scholars Program wraps up, we are excited to share a few policy briefs written by our scholars. Find them here! --> https://t.co/g9xcaRfaMH
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