Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, urban areas with a large percentage of impervious surfaces and relatively little shade—also known as urban heat islands—tend to be hotter than surrounding areas. These urban heat island effects tend to be more severe in neighborhoods that were the subject of historical discriminatory housing policies, such as redlining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - This increase was greatest among Latino and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations, whose death rates more than doubled between 2019 and 2022. American Indian/Alaskan Native populations had the highest death rate due to drug overdoses prior to the pandemic and this has persisted with the recent rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - Remaining funding would be based proportionally on an LHJ ’s share of the state ’s population (50  percent of funding); level of poverty (25  percent of funding), and share of black/African American, Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander residents (25  percent of funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - These activities include, for example, ( 1)  e stablishing three ‑way partnerships including schools and county behavioral health, and ( 2)  r educing health equity gaps for African American, Native American, Pacific Islander, or LGBTQ students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4377

The 2022-23 Budget: Health Care Access and Affordability

Feb 23, 2022 - Some states —including Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Oregon —have created entities that perform some or all of the cost control functions described above. The efforts implemented in Maryland, Rhode Island, and Oregon are relatively new.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4560

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For instance, urban areas with a large percentage of impervious surfaces and relatively little shade—also known as urban heat islands—tend to be hotter than surrounding areas. As discussed in more detail below, adverse health effects of hotter temperatures will be particularly significant in some locations and for certain populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - CDPH ’s Office of Health Equity administers this program, which began in 2009 with the goal of understanding differing mental health challenges within five specific populations (Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, African American, Native American, and LGBTQ+) and to develop and evaluate mental health approaches and practices within these groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465