A recent study found that organic produce was barely more healthy than fruits and vegetables grown with chemical fertilizers. HealthyCal’s Angela Bass toured a farmers’ market near the state Capitol to find out how farmers and customers were reacting to this news.
Month: October 2012
Parent Empowerment Program workshops demystify all aspects of getting into and attending college: what courses and exams high-school students have to take in order to be admitted, how to fill out financial forms, what college courses to sign up for. “It educates parents about college life for their children. It takes away the fear of what college life will be like.”
Orange County has gotten an early start on health care reform with a pilot program testing a new approach to care for the low-income and uninsured in three clinics.
School lunches are a lot more colorful this year as cafeterias across the state have started the first of several nationwide changes to the federal lunch and breakfast programs that provide free and reduced-lunches to low-income children.
Pertussis, the highly contagious disease better known as whooping cough, killed ten infants in the state in 2010 and infected 9,000 people: the most in 60 years. But California hasn’t seen a single death from the disease in 2011 or in the first half of 2012.
For decades, San Bernardino County has been a state leader in the statistics of despair: low educational attainment, high unemployment, low household income, low birth-weight babies, high pollution levels, inadequate health care. The baleful statistics mounted up, but policy makers had no uniform way to bring them into a framework and chart their interactions. Now, a state agency is preparing a tool that will coalesce such indices in a color-coded map, one that highlights the communities that are most vulnerable to environmental health risks.