HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Emergency Department Care in California: Who Uses It and Why?
Shannon McConville and Helen Lee
April 2009, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Understanding the Slow Growth in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Premiums, 1999-2008
Richard Kronick
April 2009, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Discontinuous Enrollment in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families and Its Effects on Access to Physician Services
Shana Alex Lavarreda and E. Richard Brown
April 2009, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Developing a Proposal through Binational Health Systems Integration
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Block
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Portability of Health Coverage for Retirees Abroad
David Warner
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Willingness to Pay for Cross-Border Health Insurance between the United States and Mexico
Arturo Vargas Bustamante
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Binational Health Insurance Models
William H. Dow
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Health Care Reform Including Migrants and Other Vulnerable Populations
Al Hernandez Santana
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Universal Access to Care:  Healthy San Francisco
Tangerine Brigham
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Healthy Kids Programs:  The California Model
Perfecto P. Munoz
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Denver Health:  A successful Model to City Based Coverage
Elbra Wedgeworth
October 2008, Power Point Presentation

Access to Dental Care for California's Adult Immigrants and Their Children: Empirical Analyses, Policy Simulations, and Recommendations
Timothy T. Brown, Tracy Finlayson, and Salar Jahedi
September 2008, CPAC Final Findings (pdf)

Registered Dental Hygienists in Alternative Practice (RDHAP): Increasing Access to Dental Care in California
Elizabeth Mertz
June 2008, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Oral Health Disparities among Latinos in California: Implications for a Binational Agenda
Francisco Ramos-Gomez
June 2008, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Impact of Medicare Part D on Access to Antipsychotic Drugs and Hospital Costs among Medi-Cal Dual Eligibles in California
Martha Shumway
March 2008, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Confronting Healthcare Disparities in Medi-Cal Managed Care: The Role of Ethnicity, Race, and Primary Language
Michael Rodriguez
March 2008, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Increasing Health Care Access for the Medically Underserved in Four California Counties
Annette Gardner
February 2008, CPAC Findings (pdf)

The Loss of Confidential Reproductive Health Care Services: Projected Impact on Adolescent Minors
Alissa Perrucci, Sarah Schwartz, and Jennifer Sigafoos
May 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf)

State-Provided Crime Victim Services Do Not Meet the Mental Health Needs of California's Disadvantaged Crime Victims
Alicia Boccellari, Robert L. Okin, Jennifer Alvidrez, Martha Shumway, Jon Dean Green, and Joanne Penko
April 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf) / Authors' Report (pdf)

The Impact of Race/Ethnicity and Language on Access and Experience of Care Among California’s Commercially Insured Adults
Alicia Fernandez, Joyce Viloria, Ellen Wu,Martin Martinez, Frances Wang, and Sarah, and Jane Selig
February 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf)

How Well Are California’s HMOs Caring for Enrollees with Chronic Conditions?
Ying-Ying Meng, Gerald Kominski, and Dylan Roby
February 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Enrollee Characteristics, Use of Services, and Health Plan Performance: Evidence from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Lynn Paringer
February 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Do HMOs Help or Hinder Access for Children with Special Health Care Needs from Limited English-Proficient Families?
Lonnie R. Snowden, Mary Masland, Soo Kang Pak, and Neal Wallace
February 2007, CPAC Findings (pdf)

An Evaluation of the Impact of San Diego's Serial Inebriate Program (SIP)
Edward M. Castillo, Suzanne P. Lindsay, Kanako N. Sturgis, Stephan J. Bera, and James V. Dunford
December 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Knowledge and Use of Emergency Contraception Among California Women and Teens: Findings from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey
Susie Baldwin, Rosa Solorio, Donna Washington, Hongijan Yu, Yii-Chieh Huang, and E. Richard Brown
December 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Are There Enough Minority Physicians in California to Go Around?
Jenny X. Liu, Timothy T. Brown, and Richard M. Scheffler
December 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Access to Substance-Abuse and Health Services for CalWORKs Participants in Los Angeles County
Deborah Podus, Ake Tzu-Hui Lu, and M. Douglas Anglin
August 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Dental Check-up of the Healthy Families Program
Umo Isong
August 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Increasing Access to Health Care for the Poor: What Can We Learn from the SB 87 Experience?
Jane Gilbert Mauldon, Sung Man Cho, and Kamran Nayeri
August 2006, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Overcoming Language Barriers to Public Mental Health Services in California
Joan R. Bloom, Mary Masland, Crystal Keeler, Neal Wallace, and Lonnie R. Snowden
April 2005, CPAC Findings (pdf) / Authors' Report (pdf)

CPAC/CPRC-Funded Research Related to Oral Health
October 2004, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Prevalence of Dental Disease Among California's Latino Children
Manel Kappagoda (in collaboration with the Dental Health Foundation's Latino Task Force)
October 2004, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Business Size and the Uninsured in California (Small Business Is Not THE Problem)
Richard Kronick, Louis Olsen, and Todd Gilmer
October 2004, CPAC Findings (pdf)

Prescription Drug Policy Options for Improving Access and Lowering State Costs Before the California Legislature
Ramón Castellblanch
August 2004, CPAC Author's Report (pdf)

The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Access to Basic Health Care for Californians
Ninez Ponce and Jeanne Black
October 2003, CPAC Issue Brief (pdf)

Reassessing Hospital Uncompensated Care in California: Implications for Research and Policy
Leonard Finocchio, Richard Hirth, John R. C. Wheeler, Jeffrey Alexander, Peter Hammer, and Jonathan Showstack
March 2003, CPAC Brief (pdf)

Transitional Medi-Cal for Families Leaving Welfare Is Underused
Jane Mauldon, Kamran Nayeri, and Carlos E. Dobkin
August 2002, CPAC Brief (pdf)

Improving Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Practitioners in Rural California
Janet Coffman, Emily Rosenoff, and Kevin Grumbach
July 2002, CPAC Issue Brief (pdf)

Access to Health Care for California's Hired Farm Workers: A Baseline Report
Don Villarejo, David Lighthall, Daniel Williams III, Ann Souter, Richard Mines, Bonnie Bade, Steve Samuels, and Stephen McCurdy
October 2001, CPAC Authors' Report (pdf)

Holding onto Our Own: Migration Patterns of Underrepresented Minority Californians in Medicine
Janet Coffman, Rebecca Levin, Lois Colburn, and Kevin Grumbach
October 2001, CPAC Authors' Report (pdf)

Policy Implications of Access to Dental Care for Immigrant Communities
Marvin Marcus, Carl A. Maida, Norma Guzman-Becerra, Roberto Belloso, and Linda Fidell
February 2001, CPAC Authors' Report (pdf)

Medical Insurance Coverage and Usage Among Farmworker Families: A Case Study
Kathryn Azevedo
October 2000, CPAC Brief (pdf)

Is There a Doctor in the Field? Underlying Conditions Affecting Access to Health Care for California Farmworkers and Their Families
Bonnie Lynn Bade
October 2000, CPAC Author's Report (pdf)

Improving Access to Health Care for California's Women Prisoners
Nancy Stoller
October 2000, CPAC Author's Report (pdf)

Children in Immigrant Families: Issues for California's Future
(From Public Forums Sponsored by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine and the UCLA CHPR, December 10-11, 1998)
CPAC and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR)
August 2000, Brief (pdf) / Report (pdf)

Si Se Puede: A Policy Brief with Recommendations to Improve Access to Health Care for California's Farmworkers
Farm Worker Health Task Force
1999, CPAC Report Summary (pdf)

Expansion of Health Care to the Working Poor
Richard Kronick and Todd Gilmer, Lucien Wulsin Jr., Don Villarejo, and E. Richard Brown
November 1999, CPAC Brief / Report (pdf)

Strategies for Increasing Physician Supply in Medically Underserved Communities in California
Kevin Grumbach, Janet Coffman, Ruth Liu, and Elizabeth Mertz
May 1999, CPAC Brief / Report (pdf)