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Street Medicine Programs Improvise to Meet Shifting Challenges

Using approaches tailored to local needs and resources, mobile teams provide humane care to unhoused people in cities and counties across California.

March 30, 2021

•Homelessness
Behind the Headlines

COVID-19 Highlighted the Poverty-Mental Health Link. Can California Experiments Break It?

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The mental health effects of economic instability can be countered by supportive economic policies, according to new research.

March 29, 2021

•Behavioral Health
Report

Homelessness and Health Care: Lessons and Policy Considerations from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained communities and health care systems across the country. Among the challenges: how to best meet the health care needs of people experiencing homelessness. This brief, part of a series by the Center for Health Care…

March 29, 2021

•Homelessness
Expert Perspective

Medi-Cal: California Has a Rare Opportunity to Improve Health Care Equity

About 10 million Californians get their health care through a Medi-Cal managed care plan, but the state’s contracts with those plans fail to ensure that these enrollees get the high-quality care they deserve.

March 26, 2021

•Health Equity
California Dermatologists Offer Equitable Care to Dark-Skinned Patients

In dermatology, where differences in patient skin color influence diagnosis and treatment, a legacy of structural racism is powerful and ongoing.

March 25, 2021
Behind the Headlines

Native American Communities in California Devastated by COVID-19

Stories That Caught Our Attention: As Native American communities see their relatives die in disproportionate numbers, they worry that these losses are not being fully recognized by a state data system that is misclassifying Native Americans as Latinx or multiracial.

March 22, 2021

•Health Equity
Feature Story

Talking It Over

A new campaign led by Bay Area comedian and CNN host W. Kamau Bell is providing Black communities with credible information about the COVID-19 vaccines.

March 19, 2021

•Health Equity
Report

The Pandemic’s Financial Impact on California’s Community Health Centers: Largest Centers Suffer Significant Losses

Whether measured by revenue size, number of patients, or number of sites, the largest health centers bore the brunt of the financial losses experienced across California’s health centers between April and December 2020.

March 18, 2021

•Facts and Data
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Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health

As the COVID-19 pandemic has worn on, teens and young adults report growing levels of depression, stress, and anxiety. CHCF partnered with Common Sense and Hopelab to better understand how young people have used social media and digital health tools…

March 17, 2021

•Behavioral Health
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Letter to Governor: Trusted Messengers Key to ‘Vaccine Equity for All’

March 16, 2021
Feature Story

Diane Guerrero Wants You to Know It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

The noted actor is using her new podcast to ease the shame and stigma that can follow traumatic events and mental health issues.

March 16, 2021

•Behavioral Health
Behind the Headlines

COVID-19 Relief: The Down Payment America Needs

The American Rescue Plan Act is a bold and comprehensive federal response built on an accurate understanding of the roots of the pandemic crises.

March 15, 2021

•Health Equity
Behind the Headlines

Both Progress and Pain in Fight to Reduce Homelessness During Pandemic

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Lack of housing is “unignorable” and puts responsibility squarely into the hands of health care practitioners, physician experts say.

March 15, 2021

•Homelessness
Report

California Policy Perspectives on Association Health Plans

Recent federal regulatory changes have reduced the requirements and conditions under which association health plans can form, allowing them to bypass coverage requirements specified in the Affordable Care Act. In response, many states have issued regulations to mitigate the effects…

March 12, 2021

•Health Insurance Coverage
Quick Read

State Public Options: Comparing Models from Across the Country

This issue brief outlines some of the problems states are addressing with their public option proposals, reports the proposals’ current status, categorizes public option proposals into archetypes, and identifies issues for California policymakers as they explore a state-based public option.

March 12, 2021

•Health Insurance Coverage

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Street Medicine Programs Improvise to Meet Shifting Challenges

COVID-19 Highlighted the Poverty-Mental Health Link. Can California Experiments Break It?

Homelessness and Health Care: Lessons and Policy Considerations from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Medi-Cal: California Has a Rare Opportunity to Improve Health Care Equity

California Dermatologists Offer Equitable Care to Dark-Skinned Patients

Native American Communities in California Devastated by COVID-19

Talking It Over

The Pandemic’s Financial Impact on California’s Community Health Centers: Largest Centers Suffer Significant Losses

Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health

Letter to Governor: Trusted Messengers Key to ‘Vaccine Equity for All’

Diane Guerrero Wants You to Know It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

COVID-19 Relief: The Down Payment America Needs

Both Progress and Pain in Fight to Reduce Homelessness During Pandemic

California Policy Perspectives on Association Health Plans

State Public Options: Comparing Models from Across the Country

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