California Immigrant Families: Issues for California's Future

This study reviewed demographics and characteristics of first- and second-generation immigrant children, including their development, risk factors, and access to and utilization of health and social services. A key conclusion was that first-generation immigrant children are as healthy as, and in many ways healthier than, children in U.S.-born families, but health status declines as they assimilate into American life. Children in immigrant families are three times as likely to be uninsured as children in U.S.-born families. Even when they are insured, they face language and cultural barriers that may prevent them from receiving quality health care. As many of the presenters and other conference participants pointed out, welfare reforms barred new immigrant children from the Medicaid program, a crucial safety net, and excluded them from participation in CHIP, which provides free or low-cost insurance for uninsured children in families whose incomes are above the eligibility levels for Medicaid

Hospital Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Los Angeles County: 1996-1997

This report presents information on Los Angeles county residents in 1996 and 1997 who were hospitalized for conditions known as Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs). ACSCs are conditions for which most hospital admissions could be prevented if patients received adequate access to ambulatory care services. Thus, ACSCs represent one method of defining potentially avoidable hospitalizations. This report present data on the number of hospital admissions, admission rates per 100,000 population, total days of inpatient care, and total hospital charges for 24 ACSCs among residents of Los Angeles County during 1996 and 1997

The Burden of Disease in Los Angeles County: A Study of the Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality in the County Population

This report presents a new methodology for measuring the burden of disease and injury in populations. In so doing, the report advances our ability to understand the burden of ill health by incorporating the contributions of both premature death and disability. The analysis highlights the great disparities in health among the major racial and ethnic populations within Los Angeles and further highlights opportunities for targeted programs to reduce these disparities. Information from this report will be particularly helpful to public and private organizations with a public health mission. The information will cause us to reevaluate priorities and reallocate resources. The findings should also be very valuable to Service Planning Area and community-based planning efforts. Finally, the results give us a new benchmark to evaluate our future progress in achieving public health goals

Use of DRGs by non-Medicare payers /

"PM-212-HCFA"--Title page."RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research.""Prepared for Health Care Financing Administration."Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84).Mode of access: Internet