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Listening to Californians with Low Incomes
Between 2019 and 2021, CHCF funded a major research project to better understand the health care experiences, needs, and values of Californians with low incomes, including understanding changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are key findings and insights from the project.
Publication

Speaking Up: Findings from 2019 Focus Groups and Interviews with Californians with Low Incomes

June 2021
Jen Joynt, Rebecca Catterson, Lucy Rabinowitz Bailey
Telehealth, Medi-Cal
A series of focus groups and in-depth interviews with Californians with low incomes in 2019 revealed common themes in their health care needs, wants and values.
CHCF Blog

A Call for Meaningful Change

June 4, 2021
Rob Waters
Behavioral Health, Telehealth, Health Equity, Workforce
'Listening to Californians with Low Incomes' report sounds alarm on deteriorating mental health.
Publication

Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: How They Experience the Health Care System and What It Means for the Future

May 2021
Jen Joynt, Lucy Rabinowitz Bailey, Rebecca Catterson
Telehealth, Workforce, Medi-Cal
Explore key findings and implications for the future from a statewide survey of California residents with low incomes who received care between March 2019 and August 2020. The survey included an oversampling of residents with low incomes.
CHCF Blog

Listening to Black Californians: Racism and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

December 2, 2020
Vanessa Grubbs
Health Equity
Black Californians are being hit hard by the compounding stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural racism that they have always lived with.
Publication

Listening to Californians with Low Incomes

October 2020
Jen Joynt, Rebecca Catterson, Lucy Rabinowitz Bailey
Health Equity
Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: Health Care Access, Experiences, and Concerns Since the COVID-19 Pandemic is a compilation of early findings from a statewide survey of the health care experiences of California’s residents. The survey included an oversampling of residents with low incomes.
CHCF Blog

Pandemic Highlights Vulnerability of California’s Latinx Community

February 3, 2021
Agustín Durán
Health Equity, Behavioral Health
While the pandemic has upended the lives, finances, and health of millions of Californians from all backgrounds, it has hit Latinx people the hardest.
CHCF Blog

‘Treat Me Like a Person’: What We’ve Heard So Far from Californians with Low Incomes

August 16, 2019
Carlina Hansen
Medi-Cal, Workforce
A new research project is exploring how Californians in the safety net experience their health care and what they hope to get out of their encounters.
CHCF Blog

How Do Low-Income Californians Experience Health Care?

April 30, 2019
Eric Antebi
Medi-Cal
Senior program officer Carlina Hansen discusses a CHCF project focused on how real-world experiences form the attitudes and expectations of people with low incomes about California's health care system.
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