An in-depth survey shows that health in the Palm Springs area has gotten significantly worse across a wide range of indicators in the past few years, despite the economic recovery.
Month: May 2014
California now expects enrollment in the Medi-Cal program to grow by 46 percent by the end of the 2014-15 budget year, with 800,000 of those new enrollees not part of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA provided nearly full federal funding — starting at 100 percent and then phasing down to 90 percent — for those low-income people who were given coverage for the first
The Affordable Care Act has several provisions aimed at improving women’s health. In this infographic, the Journal of the American Medical Association lays out some of the issues women face and how the ACA might help. Click on the thumbnail to see the full graphic.
Working age adults with disabilities who don’t get any aerobic physical activity are 50 percent more likely than active adults with disabilities to have a chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes, stroke, or heart disease, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A new study that looks at U.S. Department of Transportation data finds that drunk driving remains a significant cause of child deaths for children under 15 in the United States. The researchers looked at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data over ten years from 2001 to 2010 during which over 2300 children were killed.
Anthony Forrest has lived almost half of his 52 years behind bars. He’s been in and out of prison for much of his life, spending a total of 25 years incarcerated, he said. Less than two months before he left San Quentin State Prison for the last time, Forrest said, he knelt down and prayed for help turning his life around. He walked out of the room and saw a flier for Planting Justice, offering paroled felons from Alameda and Contra Costa counties jobs planting gardens around the East Bay and greater Bay Area after they got out.
Leon Rodriguez, a 3-year-old Latino boy, sat patiently in a small chair in the darkened room. Under a massive crop of fluffy, curly hair, he trained large dark eyes on the young man holding a small camera three feet in front of him.
For all of today’s talk of personal freedom, rare is the person who actually lives it. Yet freedom is one of the most frequently reported experiences of older adults who pursue bold new adventures in later life. As the blocks of doubt and failed expectations fade from sight, and life’s mortal coil becomes finite, travelers on this fresh path of aging often celebrate a new sense of freedom… and self. Perhaps nowhere is this on display more abundantly than the Stagebridge Senior Theatre in Oakland, which has encouraged more than 2,500 older adult students to act, sing, dance, write and improvise over the past 35 years.
By Daniel Weintraub California is a land of health extremes, and to see what that means, you need only travel a few miles from the state Capitol. Placer and Yuba counties border each other about a half hour’s drive north of downtown Sacramento. Both places are largely rural. But the similarities end there. Placer’s residents are, on average, much healthier than their neighbors across the
The latest statistics on enrollment in California’s insurance marketplace, released this week, show what kinds of plans people selected in each region. The complete statistics, broken down by 19 regions, are available on the Covered California exchange website.
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