Health Insurance and Costs

There’s strong evidence that palliative care can improve the quality of life for terminal and chronically ill patients, while reducing emergency room visits and hospitalizations by as much as half.

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

The move to push tribes onto reservations came with health consequences. Traditional diets were harder to access, which meant people couldn’t hunt or gather traditional foods or ingredients for medicines.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition, Patient Safety and Ethics

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Community Safety

As California faces a statewide shortage of physicians, there’s one area that will be hit especially hard: the large collection of cities, suburbs and rural areas that make up Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Aging