The California Report: Health Dialogues
Health Dialogues looks at Californians' efforts to help their local communities navigate the state's deteriorating health care structure. This program will acknowledge the work of neighborhoods, health clinics and other community groups. Neighborhood groups are safeguarding their communities' health through efforts like eradicating cockroaches and patrolling for the dumping of used motor oil. Health clinics are using community-based health education to help manage chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure. Some community health advocates are looking to install defibrillators in public places and private workplaces to improve heart attack survival rates. This edition of Health Dialogues will analyze these kinds of proposals and discuss resources available to communities that are looking to help themselves.

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Call-In Program:
February 20, 2002 at 7pm

In this live call-in program, listeners from around California join host Scott Shafer and a panel of experts in a discussion about efforts to help communities navigate the state's deteriorating health care system.

Guests:
  • Dr. Mitchell Katz
  • Belma Gonzalez
  • Lori Juszak
  • Dr. Michael R. Cousineau

Tune in to KQED public radio or your local public radio station. You can also hear the program live online. To join the discussion, call 800-811-6830.

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PARTNER STATION PROGRAMMING
KPCC  2/20/02   1pm; 9pm rebroadcast
Talk of the City: Communities Helping Themselves
Reporter Ilsa Setziol shadows a "promotor," a community health worker with Latino Health Access of Santa Ana.
In Studio Guests:
- Hathaway Family Resource Center
- Reach 2010, African Americans Building a Legacy
- Nancy Stringer of Black Beauticians Health Promotion Program
- Vietnamese Community of Orange County
- Jason Wittman, Los Angeles Youth Supportive Services

KCLU  2/20/02   6:30, 7:30, and 8:30am
Special Report
KCLU's Art Kraft visits a rural community clinic where childhood obesity is threatening the health of hundreds of preschoolers. Nutritionists are struggling against trends that have created this dilema in California. Tune in for the story.

KXJZ  2/12/02   6:40 and 8:40am
Health For All, a Special Report by Sue Wilson
In 1981, residents in a low-income Sacramento neighborhood saw the need to promote vaccinations for school children. They worked with a local physician to launch a grass-roots program. Today, it is known as Health for All and supports a myriad of health care programs with its five-million-dollar annual budget. Their Adult Day health center has served the community particularly well. Capital Public Radio health correspondent Sue Wilson tells the story of this unique program.

Radio Bilingüe   2/20/02   1pm in Spanish
Línea Abierta: Health "Promotores"
This is a program in collaboration with KQED in San Francisco. The program discusses efforts by community-based organizations to promote awareness in barrios and labor camps on issues such as pesticide exposure, teen pregnancies, STDs and industrial pollution problems. How do these groups manage to reach out to and improve services for low-income communities in times of financial constraint?
Guests:
- Magdalena Cerda, health promoter, Environmental Health Coalition, San Diego
- Melinda Cordero, director, Promotoras Comunitarias Training Program, Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles
- Dr. Jorge Rodriguez,ÚHogares Saludables (Healthy Homes), American Lung Association, Central Coast, Salinas, CA

KIDE 91.3 FM, Hoopa    3/4/02    11am
Health Dialogues Part 2: Communities Helping Communities
Communities helping communities is ultimately about creating a vision of wellness for a community. In our March 4 Health Dialogues program, KIDE will explore this vision of wellness held by members of our tribal community. We will look at how various projects, from youth recreation to the local farmer's market, help to integrate and define the activities of healthy people in a healthy community.


 
Note: This site is an archive of past Health Dialogues programs. View the new Health Dialogues Web Site here.

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