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Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Author(s): Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck; Hongjian Yu; Ying Ying Meng; Mona Jhawar
Research Area: Health
Keywords: uninsured; health insurance; California
Type: Brief
Coverage: California
Abstract:
This policy brief highlights the geographic variations in self-reported poor/fair health status, asthma and hypertension rates among uninsured Californians for counties, county-groups, Los Angeles Service Planning Areas, as well as for state legislative and Congressional districts. The first-of-its-kind sub-county data in this publication are useful for policy makers, advocates and medical providers in understanding the burden of selected access-sensitive chronic conditions in local communities across California.
The rates reported in this policy brief are estimates created by a small-area methodology, based on rates from CHIS 2001 that are applied to population data from the 2000 Census and 2002 California Department of Finance.