California Initiative for Health Equity & Action
@Cal_IHEA
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Envisioning a California where all people, regardless of their socioeconomic status, have the opportunity to live healthy and safe lives.
Joined April 2020
Significance --> findings highlight the importance of reducing financial barriers to care to notably improve health equity and oncologic outcomes for African American patients.
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Make sure to check out @hastingscenter new website, Bioethics in Community Health, featuring their work on community health and immigrant health, with extensive links to resources for scholars, practitioners, and students —>
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Read recent issue brief by @hastingscenter on Strategies to Support Equitable Access to Precision Medicine for All of U.S. Participants from Federally Qualified Health Centers -->
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Cal-IHEA Director Hector Rodriguez was recently on the @health_affairs podcast #AHealthPodyssey with @alanrweil, discussing brick-and-mortar health care consolidation -->
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New study!! Read about the Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Latinos During a Pandemic by @DrIranBarrera @FS_SocialWork -->
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What can be done? —> Services including prenatal care and nutritional assistance should address a wide range of serious unmet social needs, including food insecurity
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RT @UCBerkeleySPH: Berkeley Public Health professor Hector Rodriguez led a recent study showing that physician practice locations with robu…
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Significance--> Efforts are needed to minimize and discredit racially driven language and discrimination around COVID-19 and future epidemics.
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Results show that COVID-19-related discrimination is common, and it appears that the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities and marginalized communities.
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Read a selection of our 2022 Health Equity Scholars' policy briefs in our newsletter -->
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So, what's the big picture? Significant social inequality in HPV vaccination among teenagers exists in the United States. This inequality can be distorted when only parent-reported vaccination information is used as opposed to provider records.
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Findings --> the HPV unvaccinated rate was found to be highest in the middle SES teens, regardless of vaccination information source.
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