Learn how to use AskCHIS, the easy-to-use, free, online Web tool that enables you to search for health statistics using data from the California Health Interview Survey on your county, region or statewide. Join staff from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s Health DATA Program for a no-cost, two hour online workshop, … [ Read full post ]
‘Public Health’ Archive
March 16 workshop (online): Using AskCHIS to identify important health data
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
A snapshot of Latino adolescents in rural California
Monday, February 13th, 2012
One in three California Latinos ages 10-24 live in a rural, agricultural, non-suburban or non-metropolitan community – yet, we know little about their health. With funding from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, the California Adolescent Health Collaborative is releasing a new series of briefs that provide one of the first-ever pictures of … [ Read full post ]
Study: Nationwide penny tax on soda could cut costs and save lives
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Can a one-cent-per-ounce tax on Coke and Pepsi really reduce the high rates of obesity, heart disease, strokes and diabetes in our country? Yes say the authors of a recent joint study published in the journal Health Affairs. Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco calculate that just … [ Read full post ]
February 17 workshop (online): Using AskCHIS to identify important health data
Monday, January 16th, 2012Learn how to use AskCHIS, the easy-to-use, free, online Web tool that enables you to search for health statistics using data from the California Health Interview Survey on your county, region or statewide. Join staff from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s Health DATA Program for a no-cost, two hour online workshop, … [ Read full post ]
New “toolkit” teaches you the A-B-Cs of credible data collection
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Got a problem in your community – pollution, too many fast food restaurants, unsafe playgrounds – that you want to do something about? Perhaps you’d like to approach your local leaders about getting help, yet to do so you need credible evidence to prove that the problem is real.
And maybe you’re not a professional … [ Read full post ]
Feb. 7 ITUP’s annual conference: Paving the road to health reform in 2014
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
It’s been over a year since the Affordable Care Act was implemented and California has already made significant strides in laying the ground work to deliver health care to millions of its residents who are currently uninsured. Join the Insure the Uninsured Project on Feb. 6-7, 2012 in Sacramento as they bring together nearly 500 … [ Read full post ]
