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IMAGE: People who move due to cost are more likely to report delaying or not receiving prescribed medicines and needed medical care, according to a study led by Katherine Chen, MD,. view more
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LOS ANGELES (Dec. 30, 2020) People who move due to unaffordable housing are at increased risk of failing to receive the medical care they need, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, Los Angeles. The study, published online in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine, concludes that the result could be long-term health problems.
The findings were based on 146,417 adults who responded from 2011 to 2017 to the California Health Interview Survey, the largest such state survey in the U.S. The study compared those who had moved their residences in the last five years to those who had not. It found those who had moved due to cost, as opposed to other reasons, were more likely to report delaying or not receivi
Gay state Senator Scott Wiener is absolutely right in calling for an audit of the California Department of Public Health to find out why it is still not collecting sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data for COVID-19. We ve been calling for this data since the pandemic started because information suggests the health crisis affects the LGBTQ community more than we know. Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Wiener s Senate Bill 932 to collect SOGI data as an urgency measure, yet, as Wiener wrote in a letter to CDPH, the agency has not made public any SOGI data around COVID-19. Indeed, based on my own personal experience and numerous reports from others, major COVID-19 testing sites are not collecting this data at all. SB 932, he added, requires that all health care providers testing for COVID-19 collect this data. As we reported last month, tests in San Francisco do not ask about sexual orientation; for gender, the choices are male, female, or nonbinary. The cit
The California Health Interview Survey is released each year and conducted through interviews with more than 20,000 Californians on a range of topics. The pooled data from May through August reflects the latest in a series of estimates looking at the personal and financial effects of the pandemic on Californians. With the U.S. now seeing the first rollout of the vaccine, we feel that it s important, especially as a public health research center, to assess the willingness of Californians to get vaccinated, as well as to look more closely at different geographic areas to identify disparities, CHIS Director Todd Hughes said.