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Scott Walton, Executive Director of Communications
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| THE CALIFORNIA REPORT To Air Month-Long Statewide Series on Underserved Communities Overcoming Obstacles to Health Care |
KQED Radio Special Report Focuses on Issues Faced by Immigrant, Low-Income and Rural Californians in Accessing Health Care Services and Examines Community-Based Solutions
San Francisco, CA, August 2, 2001 -- KQED Public Radio's The California Report will air a special four-part series on challenges faced by many Californians in obtaining quality health care. "Cultural Barriers: Opening the Doors to Health Care" will air during The California Report's Monday morning news segments (check local listings) -- August 6, 13, 20 and 27. The series examines how underserved communities cope with limited or no access to the state's health care system and looks at how immigrants, ethnic minorities and residents of rural communities often do not receive or seek medical treatment for many economic and cultural reasons.
In one series installment, Dr. Tun Nguyen of the University of California -- San Francisco describes his struggles with cultural barriers. As a child he had to translate for his mother at her gynecology appointments. "They were asking some fairly sensitive issues about sexual behavior, and you sit there asking 'Why am I asking these questions of my mother?' And I think that as soon as she could, she stopped dragging me to these doctor visits."
In another episode, Gabriella Gonzales, a Los Angeles health promoter, offers one reason why ethnic communities often turn to Los Angeles' $25 million pill black market instead of mainstream health services. "I don't know if you’ve ever been to a county hospital. It's hours and hours of wait. I mean eight or nine hours just to see the doctor. Then it'll probably be another two to three hours just to get the medicine. I mean, I've waited that long myself."
The third episode features "Mercado La Paloma," Los Angeles' hybrid of health care and open-air-market where many low-income residents and undocumented immigrants come to receive culturally sensitive health care and advice. The final segment highlights how the rural Santa Barbara -- area community of Lompoc revived its failing hospital by providing medical services to a nearby prison, and examines the special challenges confronting more sparsely populated regions of the state.
The California Report series "Cultural Barriers: Opening the Doors to Health Care" 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.
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