This week, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) issued a series of six reports detailing impacts of climate change on various sectors and what key corresponding policy and fiscal issues the Legislature will face in the coming years. According to the LAO, the reports are intended as framing documents to help the Legislature adopt a…
Read More »This week, the Newsom Administration launched the state’s Climate Adaptation Strategy outlining an all-hands-on-deck approach to building climate resilience across California. The Climate Adaptation Strategy identifies six key priorities to drive resilience actions throughout the state: Strengthen protections for climate-vulnerable communities Bolster public health and safety efforts to protect against increasing climate risks Build a…
Read More »The California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC) published a public health spending fact sheet that highlights the chronic underfunding of public health in California. The fact sheet details the California Department of Public Health as well as local health department’s critical role in protecting and promoting California’s health and well-being, and how funding has not…
Read More »Two years of pandemic response activities have contributed to increased stress, burnout, and post-traumatic stress symptoms among the country’s public health workforce, according to the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS). The survey, conducted by the de Beaumont Foundation and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), also found…
Read More »Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) recently released findings from the second Health Homes Program (HHP) Interim Evaluation report. The latest report provides updates on program participants’ enrollment patterns, demographics, and services received that were reported in the first interim evaluation report. The latest report additionally…
Read More »The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week released, on the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new report highlighting the successes of the ACA and key health coverage gains made under the initiative. The “State of the ACA” report, published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Read More »Preliminary data published this week from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) in the United States. Reported TB disease diagnoses decreased 20 percent in 2020 and remained 13 percent lower in 2021 than TB disease diagnoses made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic….
Read More »The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) recently published a brief on California’s health care safety net. The brief highlights the various programs and providers that comprise the state’s health care safety net, primarily serving individuals with low incomes, no private insurance, and other special medical needs. PPIC assesses the expansion of the health care…
Read More »The California Department of Finance (DOF) this week issued its March finance bulletin, providing a statewide economic update and detailing labor and revenue conditions. Notably, preliminary General Fund cash receipts for the first eight months of 2021-22 fiscal year were $17.534 billion above the 2022-23 Governor’s Budget forecast of $117.301 billion. Cash receipts for the…
Read More »A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was released this week, identifying 1,499 unique reports of harassment across local health departments in the U.S. during the first 11 months of the pandemic from March 2020 to January 2021. The study additionally found that more than half of surveyed…
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