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Those who received six months of counseling had significant changes. “We saw that people who were assigned to the telephone counseling intervention actually did achieve more significant weight-loss than the group that was in the waitlist control,” said Kanaya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said those who received phone counseling also consumed more fruits and vegetables and fewer grams of fat per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at twelve months, many of the lifestyle changes did not persist. “But that’s real life,” Kanaya explained. “People, when they make changes, they make them in the first six months of most trials. Having them sustain the change can be more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=34660\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Clayton, Chief of Health Promotion\u003c/a> at Berkeley’s Division of Public Health, is optimistic. “It’s something that’s relatively cost-effective for us as a health department to deliver phone-based counseling as opposed to in-person [counseling],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s Division of Public Health was unable to prolong Live Well, Be Well because of the lack of funding for the program. “The Department of Public Health really felt strongly that they were providing good service not knowing how the data would stack up in the end. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6886\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Picture-11.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6886\" title=\"A diagram from the state's current regulation on fire-safety of upholstered furniture (State Technical Bulletin 117)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Picture-11-300x286.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diagram from the state's current regulation on fire-safety of upholstered furniture (State Technical Bulletin 117)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California regulators say they're committed to eliminating toxic flame retardants from baby products and couches within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's huge,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5njba_nhgc\" target=\"_blank\">Arlene Blum\u003c/a>, a visiting scholar in chemistry at U.C. 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And they’re chemicals that are continually migrating out of couches into dust and they’re ending up in our pets and our children ... and in us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week Tonya Blood, the head of \u003ca href=\"http://www.bhfti.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">the department that oversees furniture regulations\u003c/a>, told a state senate committee the agency is committed to getting rid of the old standard and replacing it with new fire-safety rules that can be met without the use of chemicals.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Blood says, upholstered furniture has to be able to withstand an open flame for a number of seconds, which requires the chemical treatment of foam. The new approach to fire safety would draw on federal standards requiring safer outer fabrics that don't need chemical flame retardants to pass a smolder test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say the smolder test is a better measure anyway because more fire fatalities stem from an unattended cigarette than from a falling candle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blood says they want to accomplish the rule change in the next 12 months. \"That [is] an aggressive timeline,\" she told me today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California is such a large market, manufacturers cater to its standards. Changing the law could have a big ripple effect. KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/amy-standen.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Standen\u003c/a> did \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/05/23/153308887/fight-over-flame-retardants-in-furniture-heats-up\" target=\"_blank\">a story on this issue last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>According to the American Home Furnishings Alliance, more than 80 percent of furniture sold in the U.S. contains foam treated with flame retardant chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, chemists say, is that the chemicals don't just stay inside the sofas — they turn up in household dust and in human blood and breast milk. Some of these chemicals cause cancer in lab animals, and studies suggest connections between some of the chemicals and abnormal brain development in humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the most worrisome chemicals have been phased out, but they're still present in older furniture. Meanwhile, new chemicals come online and scientists scramble to test them. For these reasons, California lawmakers have tried five times to change this law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's enormously frustrating,\" says state Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno's recent bill had the support of furniture makers, firefighter groups and doctors. All of them wanted the chemicals out of furniture, but the bill died in committee. Every lawmaker who voted against it had received campaign contributions from the chemical industry.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After all these years, why are things changing now? Advocates point to \u003ca href=\"http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html\">a recent series in the Chicago Tribune\u003c/a> that's been \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_chicago_tribune_torches_th.php\">widely hailed\u003c/a> for helping bring wide spread attention to the issue. One story pointed out how everything started when \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/flames/ct-met-flames-tobacco-20120508,0,3332088.story\" target=\"_blank\">tobacco companies wanted to shift blame\u003c/a> for fire deaths away from cigarettes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/flames/ct-met-flame-retardants-20120506,0,1627036.story\" target=\"_blank\">Another story featured a burn doctor \u003c/a>sponsored by a chemical industry group, who repeatedly made up testimony about young patients whose deaths he claimed might have been prevented by flame retardants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonya Blood says California has been moving toward these changes for years. But there does seem to be increased urgency. Blood says her agency will hold public workshops on the topic July 23-25. Details to come, but one will be in Sacramento, she says, and the other in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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After exposure to the pollutant, the study subjects saw an increase in various cardiovascular indicators that could result in heart problems in people with heart disease, including vascular inflammation and a reduced ability to dissolve artery-blocking blood clots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though studies of ozone and human health abound, the new EPA study, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, is among the first to use human volunteers to explain how ozone can potentially kill people by causing heart attacks. Previous epidemiological studies have shown a connection using statistical analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the strongest evidence that there is a true causal connection” between ozone exposure and heart health, and confirms and expands what has been suggested in previous studies, said Douglas Dockery, an environmental epidemiology professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts said that the latest EPA study is an important contribution to determining the extent of the relationship between ozone exposure and cardiovascular problems – an issue that is far from scientifically settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A larger, 90-person study among the elderly was recently launched by the Boston-based Health Effects Institute in conjunction with UC San Francisco and two other universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a universal set of studies that say, ‘Yeah, ozone definitely contributes to cardiovascular effects,' \" said Dan Greenbaum of the Health Effects Institute. \"But that may be because we have not looked at it the right way, and that is what we are trying to do with this study (of the elderly).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Lyou, a governing board member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the CEO and president of the Coalition for Clean Air, said more could be done at a policy level to address the health impacts of ozone pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to move toward zero and near-zero emission transportation for both people and freight,” he said in an email. “In order to meet our clean air standards, we have to focus on the combustion of petrochemical fuels and identify ways to minimize and eliminate it. 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In the 1940s, there were smog events in the L.A. area where residents couldn’t see a city block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozone is created when pollutants from cars, power plants and other sources interact with sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address ozone pollution, the air resources board requires car manufacturers to meet more stringent emission standards and regulates some chemical-based consumer products that may contribute to ozone during evaporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its new study, EPA researchers exposed 23 healthy young adults to two-hour sessions of both clean air and ozone-polluted air at levels about two times greater than what residents in China or Mexico experience during the middle of the day. After exposure to the pollutant, the study subjects saw an increase in various cardiovascular indicators that could result in heart problems in people with heart disease, including vascular inflammation and a reduced ability to dissolve artery-blocking blood clots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though studies of ozone and human health abound, the new EPA study, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, is among the first to use human volunteers to explain how ozone can potentially kill people by causing heart attacks. Previous epidemiological studies have shown a connection using statistical analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the strongest evidence that there is a true causal connection” between ozone exposure and heart health, and confirms and expands what has been suggested in previous studies, said Douglas Dockery, an environmental epidemiology professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts said that the latest EPA study is an important contribution to determining the extent of the relationship between ozone exposure and cardiovascular problems – an issue that is far from scientifically settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A larger, 90-person study among the elderly was recently launched by the Boston-based Health Effects Institute in conjunction with UC San Francisco and two other universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a universal set of studies that say, ‘Yeah, ozone definitely contributes to cardiovascular effects,' \" said Dan Greenbaum of the Health Effects Institute. \"But that may be because we have not looked at it the right way, and that is what we are trying to do with this study (of the elderly).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Lyou, a governing board member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the CEO and president of the Coalition for Clean Air, said more could be done at a policy level to address the health impacts of ozone pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to move toward zero and near-zero emission transportation for both people and freight,” he said in an email. “In order to meet our clean air standards, we have to focus on the combustion of petrochemical fuels and identify ways to minimize and eliminate it. 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The agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Review Panel, however, had \u003ca href=\"http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/1336B2B88034AEB6852579C0007070CA/%24File/EPA-CASAC-12-004-unsigned.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">previously recommended \u003c/a>that the EPA upgrade this determination to “likely to be a causal relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Obama administration rejected a proposed rule from the EPA to tighten the federal air quality standards related to ozone pollution. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lyssa Mudd Rome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6613\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6613 \" title=\"Todd300x300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Todd300x300-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Whitehead has become a mentor figure in addition to helping kids have fun while exercising. (Photo: Coaching Corps)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon at \u003ca title=\"http://bahiainc.com/wordpress/?page_id=2\" href=\"http://bahiainc.com/wordpress/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">BAHIA\u003c/a>, a bilingual after school program in Berkeley, a small group of elementary school kids ran around breathlessly. They were playing “wolves and bunnies,” a tag game that takes some of its rules from basketball. Their coach Todd Whitehead played along, occasionally giving directions and stretching his hand out for a high-five. “Todd makes basketball seem fun,” said nine-year-old Kaydie. But this is about more than having fun. It’s a way for these kids to get the exercise they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitehead is a post-doctoral scholar in public health at U.C. 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Organized sports activities are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->That’s where \u003ca title=\"http://www.coaching-corps.org/\" href=\"http://www.coaching-corps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coaching Corps\u003c/a> comes in. Whitehead volunteered to serve at BAHIA through the nonprofit program, which connects college-age coaches with kids from low-income neighborhoods. Here’s how it works: Coaching Corps chapters recruit volunteers from colleges, universities, and the community, then train them to be coaches. The organization then places coaches in existing after school programs in under-served areas. So far, around 1,600 coaches and 19,000 kids have participated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, one in three children is now considered overweight or obese. For Latinos and African-Americans that number goes up to 40 percent. Coaching Corps teamed up with the University of California San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.coaching-corps.org/about-us/media-resourses/\">to test\u003c/a> whether its programs were making a difference. Using cardiorespiratory fitness tests, it found that almost half of participating kids didn’t meet recommended baseline fitness levels at the start of the program. But by the end of a year of playing sports with coaches, their fitness levels went up by 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program is about more than just exercise. With a coach, kids not only get the physical activity they need, they also get important attention and mentorship from a caring adult. Coaches can teach kids about teamwork, persistence, and leadership. “Children need to know that they have a safe, caring, consistent adult who’s there for them,” says Sheilagh Polk, communications director for Coaching Corps. “That can make a really big impact in the life of a kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martha Cueva, who directs BAHIA’s educational program, says “If it weren’t for Todd we wouldn’t have a structured program this year. He brings so much energy to coaching. Coaching Corps gives these kids the opportunity to participate in organized sports that they wouldn’t otherwise have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitehead recalls his high school basketball coach, whose enthusiasm for the game made a big difference in his life. “It’s nice to pass that on.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Grace Rubenstein\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6581\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/LoveLock_AllenSkye_Flickr_06152012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6581\" title=\"(AllenSkye: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/LoveLock_AllenSkye_Flickr_06152012-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"(AllenSkye: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AllenSkye: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is not the stuff of puppy love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Madhuri Malhotra was a younger teen in Richmond, it was normal for her high school boyfriend to call her a b---- and cuss her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would cheat on me, and he would make it so that I was in the wrong. I would feel bad and I would be the one saying sorry,” she told me recently. “Everywhere I went I was so depressed, because I felt like I was doing something wrong,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she finally learned the definition of verbal and emotional abuse, “I was mind boggled,” said Malhotra, who is now 18. “I tried to get out of it, but then my heart wouldn’t let me, so then I’d go back in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The same kinds of violence that we see in abusive adult relationships ... also commonly happen between teens.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Malhotra’s epiphany about abuse was lucky, almost serendipitous. While job-hunting via a Richmond city agency, she found part-time work as a youth peer educator with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://standffov.org/\" target=\"_blank\">STAND! for Families Free of Violence\u003c/a>, based in Concord. The job training opened her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Malhotra travels Contra Costa County teaching youth (and sometimes grownups, too) this message: The same kinds of violence that we see in abusive adult relationships – calling your partner nasty names, telling her what to wear and who she can be friends with, controlling her with threats, pressuring her into sexual acts, or even physically hitting her – also commonly happen between teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fact is not widely recognized, and until now, many California communities haven’t really been paying attention. Parents haven’t known what signs to look for. Schools haven’t consistently taught kids what constitutes abuse or intervened in their intimate relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: I told a Bay Area friend of mine, a dad of three, about my research for this post. He’s an involved and caring father who participates in parent groups and coaches youth sports. His response: “What’s teen dating abuse? I’ve never heard of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real big problem,” Marquez Johnson told me. He’s 20, a Berkeley City College student and Malhotra’s fellow educator at STAND. He said he used to curse at and insult his girlfriends until his sisters gave him the wakeup call: “You’re acting like our mom’s boyfriends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without stronger efforts to combat dating violence, Johnson said, “There are teens that might think it’s the only way you’re supposed to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STAND’s peer educators teach dating abuse awareness to around 2,000 middle and high school students a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point out that among teens, abuse also often crosses into digital realms. Young lovers might publicly share nude photos of their partners, or text-message them dozens of times an hour to check their whereabouts. Johnson said a friend of his was humiliated when her ex-boyfriend posted sexual details about her on Facebook. She ultimately switched schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet if the behavior falls short of physical violence, teens – like many adults in abusive relationships – may not recognize it as abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malhotra sees that confusion among the teens she educates for STAND. When she spoke recently to a group of youth, several of them approached her afterward with a question about emotional blackmail. If your partner “knows you deepest, darkest secrets” and threatens to expose them if you leave, they asked her, is that abuse? She told them it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STAND has previously worked on teen dating violence in small ways, delivering lessons in local schools – when they had enough money – since the 1980s. 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I don’t believe I’m going to forget them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years in the U.S. Jasmine was diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001923/\" target=\"_blank\">post-traumatic stress disorder\u003c/a>, or PTSD. Now she's getting counseling at \u003ca title=\"http://cst.aaci.org/\" href=\"http://cst.aaci.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Survivors of Torture\u003c/a> (CST) in San Jose. But Jasmine said most of her Iraqi peers shy away from treatment because Iraqi culture, like many others, often considers mental health problems shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine said therapy has given her tools to help her avoid reliving traumatic moments -- a common symptom of PTSD. She says even though she can’t forget her past, she is learning how to deal with it through various activities, like doing crafts. \"Especially like when I’m over-thinking I go to crochet,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many Middle Eastern refugees are Iraqis who have fled war-related violence, in the past decade the largest number of Middle Eastern refugees in California are actually from Iran. More than 15,000 Iranian refugees have moved to California since 2006. Many Iranians suffer religious and political persecution. And they face many of the same social and cultural taboos about seeking mental health care as Iraqi refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azin Izadifar, a 45-year-old Iranian refugee, came to the U.S. in 2009 seeking asylum. She had been arrested for participating in secret meetings during \u003ca title=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Iran’s 1979 revolution\u003c/a>, and spent the next three years being tortured in Iran’s notorious \u003ca title=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison\" target=\"_blank\">Evin Prison\u003c/a>. She continued to have run-ins with the Iranian government after her release, so she eventually sought asylum in the U.S. She said even though she was in America and felt safe, life was difficult. She said her nightmares about her time in Evin Prison followed her to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had become so normal for me that I couldn't even understand that there was a problem there –- I had a sleep disorder. And it could be related to the trauma I had in prison,” said Izadifar. \"Then I realize, 'OK, that's a sign of PTSD.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izadifar eventually saw a therapist and was indeed diagnosed with PTSD. She said she sees the same PTSD symptoms in many newly arrived Iranian refugees -- even among people who were never imprisoned. But most of them, she said, aren’t seeking therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a tendency in our culture to underestimate that and say, ‘Okay, that was past. Now we are in a free society. We have to live our lives. We have to buy a car and get a job and just be normal.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Izadifar and Jasmine are not alone. Most refugees have been exposed to violence and trauma unheard of in the west. In the U.S., seeing a counselor is more widely accepted, but many in the refugee community would never think that way, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharrockmft.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Sharrock\u003c/a>, a former therapist with Centers for Survivors of Torture. She said refugees more likely to go to first ask a family member or a physician for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a federal refugee package, people are entitled to medical \u003cem>and\u003c/em> mental health care. Sharrock’s job was to get people into counseling and to keep them coming back after their first session. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Eve Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6453\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/WomenSoldiers_USArmed-Forces.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6453\" title=\"(Photo: U.S. Army)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/WomenSoldiers_USArmed-Forces-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: U.S. Army)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: U.S. Army)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is home to 167,000 women veterans -- the largest group in the nation. More than nine percent of veterans in California are women, and health care is a top priority for them, according to the results of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.library.ca.gov/pressreleases/pr_120518.html\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>released last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the number of women vets using Veterans Health Administration (VA) services has \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=2455\" target=\"_blank\">nearly doubled\u003c/a> (PDF) in the past decade, and VA hospitals and clinics have scrambled to meet the needs of their new patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two state agencies -- \u003ca title=\"http://www.women.ca.gov/\" href=\"http://www.women.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Commission on the Status of Women \u003c/a>and the \u003ca title=\"http://www.calvet.ca.gov/\" href=\"http://www.calvet.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Veterans Affairs\u003c/a> -- commissioned the survey of more than 900 women veterans in California about gaps they perceived in their benefits. California women veterans and their advocates say that women hold a dim view of VA facilities as unfriendly, male-dominated institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most women veterans have insurance through a job or spouse or prefer to be treated elsewhere, leaving the VA to treat mostly people without other resources. About half of the survey respondents who use VA facilities said their experience was “good” or “excellent.” Those who were less satisfied described difficulties with getting appointments, long wait times, lack of staff and clinic resources, and continuing bias against women veterans.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.va.gov/providerinfo/SANFRANCISCO/detail.asp?providerid=952\" href=\"http://www.va.gov/providerinfo/SANFRANCISCO/detail.asp?providerid=952\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Deborah Grady \u003c/a>has been at the \u003ca title=\"http://www.sanfrancisco.va.gov/\" href=\"http://www.sanfrancisco.va.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco VA Medical Center\u003c/a> more than 20 years and is a \u003ca title=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4878474\" href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4878474\" target=\"_blank\">recognized leader \u003c/a>in women’s health research. In a recent interview, Grady said when she started working at the VA most of the female patients were World War II veterans whose problems were primarily those of aging. Today the largest group of female veterans in the country served in Iraq or Afghanistan. “There’s been a large influx of younger women,” she explains, as women’s role in the military has broadened and the conflicts themselves have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, women patients are \u003ca href=\"http://www.womenshealth.va.gov/WOMENSHEALTH/docs/WVHC_ProgressReport_082011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more likely\u003c/a> than their male counterparts to have a service-connected disability. The most common ailment among the younger women -- one which they suffer more often than men -- is musculoskeletal problems. Both healthcare providers and veterans’ advocates like Starlyn Lara of Swords to Plowshares suggest one possible reason: boots and body armor are not designed for female bodies. When women are required to serve in ill-fitting gear, injury may result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women are also coming home with sleep disorders, digestive issues and gynecological problems. Their frequent urinary-tract infections may be linked directly to active duty -- women may delay urination because they don’t want to stop convoys, feel unsafe at night, or are located in isolated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent government report showed that management of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes is worse for women veterans nationally. There are also documented \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/draft_2012_women-veterans_strategicplan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">disparities\u003c/a> [PDF] between men and women in preventive care: fewer women veterans received colorectal cancer screening, depression screening, and immunizations (pneumococcal and influenza).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the VA has been responsive to this,” Grady said. Women veterans receive Pap smears and mammograms with the same regularity as the rest of the population. There are programs for smoking cessation and diabetes education -- and if women request a group without men, she said, the VA is usually able to accommodate that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she agreed that the culture overall presents challenges. As a woman “you’re a minority there,” Grady says. “The way we’ve tried to address that is we have a separate clinic. We have a place called ‘The Women’s Center’ where almost all of the women veterans receive their care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a separate place for women to get care serves two objectives. The veterans are more comfortable, and the doctors are more specialized -- because they treat only women. The San Francisco clinic was established with federal funds in the early 1990s, she said, and almost all of the providers who seek work there are women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to its survey findings, the State Commission on the Status of Women has called for California’s women veterans to get “access to high quality, gender-specific healthcare; separate spaces to receive care and treatment and staff that are trained to understand and meet their needs.” In addition to San Francisco, women can receive gynecologic and gender-sensitive primary care in Palo Alto, Fresno, San Diego, Los Angeles and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eve Harris is a Bay Area writer. Check out her health blog, \u003ca href=\"http://eve-harris.blogspot.com/\">A Healthy Piece of My Mind\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Photo: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's Central Valley sadly boasts some of the \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/11/02/asthmatic-kids-at-risk-in-san-joaquin-valley/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/11/02/asthmatic-kids-at-risk-in-san-joaquin-valley/\" target=\"_blank\">dirtiest air in the country\u003c/a> and the as the temperature goes up, the air quality usually goes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, \u003ca title=\"http://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/USCA0233\" href=\"http://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/USCA0233\" target=\"_blank\">The Weather Channel\u003c/a> shows it's 102 in Clovis, a town northeast of Fresno. \u003ca title=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state\" href=\"http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state\" target=\"_blank\">EPA's AirNow\u003c/a> site says the air quality for all of Fresno County has nudged into the \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi#unh\" href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi#unh\" target=\"_blank\">unhealthy for everyone\u003c/a>\" category. At this level the site says \"everyone may begin to experience health effects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today is especially important in Clovis, because the city is hosting the prestigious \u003ca title=\"http://www.cusd.com/trackmeet/\" href=\"http://www.cusd.com/trackmeet/\" target=\"_blank\">CIF State Track and Field Championships\u003c/a>. Scores of athletes from across the state will be competing in air that could make them ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn't stop there. From the \u003ca title=\"http://fresnobeehive.com/news/#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy\" href=\"http://fresnobeehive.com/news/#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To make matters worse, the hourly updates on ozone pollution will be unavailable online at times today because the\u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyair.org/Home.htm\"> San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District \u003c/a>is performing maintenance on its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozone is a corrosive gas that often reaches its peak in the late afternoon in the San Joaquin Valley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/05/31/2857175/distance-stars-baxter-weissenbach.html\">CIF championships\u003c/a> will begin with field events at 3 p.m. at Buchanan High School's Veteran Memorial Stadium. The running events are scheduled at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>Kevin Hall, Director of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.calcleanair.org/\" href=\"http://www.calcleanair.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Valley Air Quality Coalition\u003c/a>, says sporting events should be delayed. Even waiting an hour or two can often be sufficient for air quality levels to improve. \"The coaches and administrators usually take caution during practices, but in an event like this, there's a conflict of interest. ... They may err on the side of convenience,\" Hall told me in an interview this afternoon.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>Sporting events can pose a risk for athletes in this unhealthy air, he says. \"Many and perhaps most of these athletes come from outside the valley,\" Hall said. \"So, one, they're not acclimated to heat, and two, they might have a condition they're not aware of. 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At this level the site says \"everyone may begin to experience health effects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today is especially important in Clovis, because the city is hosting the prestigious \u003ca title=\"http://www.cusd.com/trackmeet/\" href=\"http://www.cusd.com/trackmeet/\" target=\"_blank\">CIF State Track and Field Championships\u003c/a>. Scores of athletes from across the state will be competing in air that could make them ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn't stop there. From the \u003ca title=\"http://fresnobeehive.com/news/#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy\" href=\"http://fresnobeehive.com/news/#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To make matters worse, the hourly updates on ozone pollution will be unavailable online at times today because the\u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyair.org/Home.htm\"> San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District \u003c/a>is performing maintenance on its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozone is a corrosive gas that often reaches its peak in the late afternoon in the San Joaquin Valley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/05/31/2857175/distance-stars-baxter-weissenbach.html\">CIF championships\u003c/a> will begin with field events at 3 p.m. at Buchanan High School's Veteran Memorial Stadium. The running events are scheduled at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>Kevin Hall, Director of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.calcleanair.org/\" href=\"http://www.calcleanair.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Valley Air Quality Coalition\u003c/a>, says sporting events should be delayed. Even waiting an hour or two can often be sufficient for air quality levels to improve. \"The coaches and administrators usually take caution during practices, but in an event like this, there's a conflict of interest. ... They may err on the side of convenience,\" Hall told me in an interview this afternoon.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>Sporting events can pose a risk for athletes in this unhealthy air, he says. \"Many and perhaps most of these athletes come from outside the valley,\" Hall said. \"So, one, they're not acclimated to heat, and two, they might have a condition they're not aware of. 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"content": "\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/user/stephanie-snyder\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/user/stephanie-snyder\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Snyder\u003c/a>, \u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/kids-access-health-care-concern-under-browns-budget-16301\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/kids-access-health-care-concern-under-browns-budget-16301\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/black-african-american-doctor-health-hospital.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6170\" title=\"black african american doctor he\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/black-african-american-doctor-health-hospital-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>Low-income children in rural California are in danger of losing their doctors and health care plans under Gov. 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Doctors currently receive a monthly average of $103 per patient in Healthy Families, but Medi-Cal pays $84 on average per patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey referenced by the Legislative Analyst’s Office asked pediatricians who now provide care to Healthy Families patients, but not Medi-Cal patients, if they would be willing to make the switch. 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