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  • Medi-Cal en primera línea del cambio radical en la salud pública

    Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services A medida que Medi-Cal se expanda el próximo año para incluir a todos los inmigrantes indocumentados y nuevos servicios mucho más allá del consultorio médico, California está en la primera línea nacional para transformar la atención de salud pública. En una sesión informativa del...
  • Medi-Cal at Front Lines of Sea Change in Public Health

    Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As Medi-Cal expands next year to include all undocumented immigrants and new services well beyond the doctor’s office, California is on the national front lines of transforming public health care. In a Wed., November 15 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and the Department...
  • La Corte Suprema vs el Tribunal de Opinión Pública

    Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services Hay un viejo chiste en DC sobre cómo los jueces de la Corte Suprema hacen las peores citas. No aceptan regalos y por eso insisten en pagar, pero no ganan tanto dinero, por lo que eligen los restaurantes más baratos. (¡Redoble de tambores!) Se...
  • The Supreme Court vs. the Court of Public Opinion

    Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services There’s an old joke in DC about how Supreme Court Justices make the worst dates. They won’t take gifts and so insist on paying, but they don’t make that much money, so they choose the cheapest restaurants. (Cue drumroll!) You’d be forgiven for not...
  • How to break the language barrier in public health

    We all know that we Hispanics in the United States face a tsunami of financial and non-financial barriers to obtaining adequate and timely medical care. Both our economic or immigration status, as well as the language we speak or the length of time we have been in the United...
  • How California public transit is pleading for state aid

    Sameea Kamal CalMatters California is grappling with a $31.5 billion budget deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom denied public transit agencies a lifeline in his latest spending plan, and time is running out. But transit officials and their supporters in the Legislature aren’t giving up hope yet that the state will...
  • CA ‘Just Safe’ Campaign Aims to Redefine Public Safety

    Social justice advocates have just launched a new public education campaign. It’s called “Just Safe,” and it’s aimed at changing the conversation about crime, especially in the wake of the recent mass shootings. The group Californians for Safety and Justice has released a commercial, narrated by actress Jennifer Lewis, making...
  • California should be treating gun violence as a public health crisis

    Brian Malte & Chet P. Hewitt CalMatters There’s an African proverb that says, “In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.” As gun violence rates increase across the country, police budgets have risen like dams in the name of prevention and interruption. To decrease violence in California, research shows that we...
  • Santa Clara County Public Health Department encourages residents to double down on winter protection with COVID and flu shots

    Arturo Hilario El Observador The pandemic is not over and as winter approaches, it is critical that the community be prepared and protected against not only COVID-19, but the flu as well. Even if someone got the initial COVID shot, or any number of boosters, now is the time...
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