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Contacts for journalists and reporters only. For information about contacting KQED, please visit the Contact Us page. Please send press releases or news story ideas directly to KQED Radio Programs contacts.
Scott Walton, Executive Director of Communications
415.553.2145
swalton@ncpb.com
Meredith Gandy, Publicist
415.553.2116
mgandy@kqed.org
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| THE CALIFORNIA REPORT to Air Three-Part Weekly Series on Cross-border Health Care |
Public Radio Special Report Focuses on Health Care Issues Facing California and Mexico's Border Communities
San Francisco, CA, December 5, 2001 -- KQED Public Radio's statewide newsmagazine, The California Report, will air a special three-part series on challenges faced by many Californians in obtaining quality health care. "Healing at the Margin: California and Mexico's Shared Health Care Challenges" will air during The California Report's regular Monday morning news segments December 10, 17, and 24. It will air on KPBS at 8:50 am on 89.5 FM in San Diego and 89.1 FM in La Jolla (check local listings for other cities). The series examines the health issues and unique health care needs of residents with close ties on both sides of the California-Mexico border, but whose health systems don't cross national boundaries.
Eric Niiler from member station KPBS San Diego reports on health effects of the notoriously polluted border air in the first edition of the series. Respiratory illness is much more common in border communities, and the addition of new fossil-fuel power plants threatens to make it worse.
The second installment of the series describes innovative AIDS prevention programs in San Diego County where health officials are becoming increasingly alarmed by the disproportionately high rates of HIV infection among Latinos. Across the border in Tijuana, residents are faced with the second highest incidence of AIDS in Mexico. KPBS San Diego health reporter, Kenny Goldberg, talks with farm workers and others who are at-risk for contracting the disease in California and spreading it in Mexico as they migrate.
The series closes with a look at public and private efforts to address the health needs of Mexican immigrants from a bi-national perspective. In the third installment, KQED San Francisco reporter Ingrid Becker talks with officials on both sides of the border who are looking for ways to better coordinate and improve health care delivery. Migrant workers and recent immigrants working in all industries run into serious health care issues. Half of all farm workers, for instance, have never seen a dentist, and nearly 70 percent have no health care insurance.
The California Report series "Healing at the Margin: California and Mexico's Shared Health Care Challenges" is made possible in part by a grant from The California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation. The mission of The California Endowment is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. More information is available at their Web site, calendow.org.
The California Report, hosted by journalist Scott Shafer, is a daily statewide news and public affairs program produced by KQED Public Radio and broadcast on public radio stations across the state. It attracts nearly half-a-million listeners across California each week.
KQED operates KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation; KQED Public Television 9, the nation's most-watched public television station, and Digital Television 9, Northern California's only public television digital signal; the KQED Education Network, which brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources; and kqed.org, which harnesses the power of the Internet to bring KQED to communities across the Web.
KPBS is San Diego's public television and radio station, located on the campus of San Diego State University. Its purpose is to educate, inform, entertain and empower its audience by acquiring, producing and delivering high quality programming which is of value and worthy of support.
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