California Health Report TV

California Health Report TV – Episode 3

California Health Report TV – Episode 3 from California Health Report on Vimeo. For this episode we gathered inspirational personal stories with broader community implications from around the state. First we go to Concord, where Alex Chavez had gained so much weight that he felt helpless to do anything to improve his health. Then he learned about Cooking Matters– a cooking class that makes a

Interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Diana Dooley

California Health and Human Services Secretary, Diana Dooley leads 13 departments and is the chairwoman of Covered California, the new agency that’s implementing the affordable care act in California. But this interview between Daniel Weintraub, California Health Report Editor-in-Chief and California’s top health official, Dooley,  isn’t about health care, it’s about health – and all the things we can do as individuals and communities to keep ourselves healthier, so we don’t need to go to a doctor or a hospital or worry that much about the quality of our insurance coverage.

Angelinos reclaim public space for gardens

In this story we go to South Los Angeles, a community with some of the highest obesity rates in the country. Almost a third of the adults living there are obese. Now a handful of residents are trying to bring fresh food and health awareness into the area by planting edible gardens in an area riddled with fast food restaurants.

East Coachella Valley is home to the vast majority of valley Latinos who often live in crushing poverty while working in the agricultural and service sectors – often for their white counterparts. Photo of trailer in Coachella Valley by Suzanne Potter.

Pavement Helps Trailer Park Residents Breathe

Graciela Zuniga and her two toddler boys suffer from asthma and bronchitis – conditions that are aggravated by all the dust kicked up by cars on the dirt roads of the trailer park they call home. “I get sick a lot, so do they. Everyone gets colds, and fevers too,” said Graciela.The Zunigas can breathe easier now.

California Health Report TV – Episode 2

California Health Report TV – Episode 2 from California Health Report on Vimeo. In this episode we travel from Oakland to Lake County to Los Angeles looking for stories of people who are improving their own health and the health of their communities. First we journey to East Oakland where a unique childcare program called Room to Bloom helps both parents and their children. Then

Get Tested Hits the Streets During HIV Awareness Month

The sun-drenched Palm Springs area is a hotspot for the virus that causes AIDS. The prevalence of HIV in the Coachella Valley is twice the national average. Yet it is estimated that 50-70 percent of residents have never been tested for HIV and don’t know their status.

Interview with Dr. Ronald Fong

The California Health Report Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Weintraub, interviews UC Davis Clinical Professor, Dr. Ronald Fong who is training the next generation of physicians to look outside the exam room to help their patients stay healthy. He advocates everything from taking walks with patients to training doctors to lobby local government for better land use policies.

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