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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Food, unlike tobacco and drugs, is necessary to live and is central to health and disease,\" wrote the journal's editors in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001246;jsessionid=080429D0F90AF1047DB6F2732F46A9D0\">preface to the series\u003c/a>. \"And yet the big multinational food companies control what people everywhere eat, resulting in a stark and sick irony: one billion people on the planet are hungry while two billion are obese or overweight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They are explicitly going after kids and trying to sell product with corporate social responsibility campaigns.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tobacco companies have been under attack since the 1960s for selling an unhealthy product. Now, food and beverage companies are using tricks tobacco learned, like corporate social responsibility -- but they've added their own twist. \"What we know about what's different about soda companies is that they are explicitly going after kids and trying to sell product with corporate social responsibility campaigns, something that I think they're breaking new ground in that regard,\" said Dorfman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is simple: people -- especially young people aged 11-31 -- like companies that do good in the world, so \"cause marketing\" engenders loyal customers at the emotional level. Buying Pepsi also gets a consumer more votes for her cause of choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not all. The strategy is designed to thwart damaging policies as well. \"For the tobacco companies it's not just the public and policymakers that they're concerned about, it's future juries that they are concerned about,\" Dorfman explained. \"And with soda companies, I would guess that they are concerned about future voters because people are starting to get concerned about this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Richmond, a few miles north of San Francisco, is poised to become the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\">first city to tax soda\u003c/a> as an anti-obesity strategy, if voters approve the measure in November. Big efforts are being made in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/12/why-is-mayor-bloomberg-a-nanny/\">New York\u003c/a> to limit access to sugary drinks, and everywhere people are talking about rising obesity rates and the attenuating health risks and costs. In many ways the outrage over what soda companies sell, does mirror concerns about tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one big difference, though -- the tobacco industry is forbidden from marketing directly to youth. Not so with soda companies. And, Dorfman points out a glaring hole in the corporate social responsibility model. \"If their number one responsibility is to their shareholders, that makes their pledges about health secondary, at minimum,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Alvin Tran\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6652\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/OldPersonCaneGeneric.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6652\" title=\"There is a 45% increased risk of death in people who are lonely compared to not lonely, according to a UCSF study.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/OldPersonCaneGeneric-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"There is a 45% increased risk of death in people who are lonely compared to not lonely, according to a UCSF study.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a 45% increased risk of death in people who are lonely compared to not lonely, according to a UCSF study. (Photo: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you feel left out? Isolated? Or lack companionship? Answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions and you may be at risk for adverse health outcomes, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucsfhealth.org/carla.perissinotto\" target=\"_blank\">Carla Perissinotto\u003c/a>, MD, an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perissinotto’s latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/06/12184/loneliness-linked-serious-health-problems-and-death-among-elderly\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a>, which found a link between loneliness and serious health problems among the elderly, was the main topic of Wednesday's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201206200900\" target=\"_blank\">Forum with Michael Krasny\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, published this week in the \u003ca href=\"http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1188033\" target=\"_blank\">Archives of Internal Medicine\u003c/a>, followed over 1,600 elderly individuals for six years. These individuals completed surveys that measured whether they felt left out, isolated, or lacked companionship -- all of which are components of loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We cannot continue to ignore the psychosocial distress that our patients are experiencing. It is, in fact, just as important as traditional medical risk factors.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We demonstrated that [loneliness] is also a risk factor for poor health outcomes, including death and multiple measures of functional decline,” said Perissinotto. \"[There is a] 45 percent increased risk of death in people who are lonely compared to not lonely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perissinotto says medical professionals also need to put more emphasis on the role of psychosocial distress on health. “We cannot continue to ignore the psychosocial distress that our patients are experiencing,” Perissinotto said. “It is, in fact, just as important as traditional medical risk factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Perissinotto, medical schools currently emphasize the role of traditional medical risk factors such high blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity and pay less attention to factors such as social support and loneliness. “There needs to be a slight shift where we don’t ignore the traditional medical risk factors but we also incorporate things like loneliness into the general assessment of our patients,” Perissinotto urged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a positive note, Perissinotto does acknowledge the existence of health care programs that currently screen for loneliness among patients such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ioaging.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area’s Institute on Aging\u003c/a>. The institute’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ioaging.org/services/friendline_suicide_hotline_sf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Friendship Line\u003c/a> is a phone service that reaches out to elderly individuals and offers a variety of services, including emotional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://education.ioaging.org/speaker_bios.html\" target=\"_blank\">Karyn Skultety\u003c/a>, the Director of Clinical and Community Services at the Institute on Aging and another guest on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201206200900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a>, cautions the idea of relying on screens alone. Screens are useful and helpful but should not replace the ability to ask clients questions, she said. “Nothing substitutes real good conversations with someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two guests also clarified a common misconception over the definition of loneliness itself. “Loneliness is the subjective feeling of isolation, not belonging, or lacking companionship,” said Perissinotto. About two-thirds of her study’s participants who were classified as lonely were married or living with a partner. Skultety added that loneliness is not based on the quantity of friendships, but on the quality and type of friendships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skultety added that society does not view careers involving care for the elderly as rewarding. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Phil Galewitz, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6635\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6635\" title=\"Medical120620\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Medical120620-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medi-Cal patients in California stand to lose a lot if Medicaid shrinks. 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Twenty-six states had challenged the expansion, arguing it was “unduly coercive” because they would lose all of their federal Medicaid funding if they refused to expand the program.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Depending on how sweeping and broadly written the decision is, it could be the entire Medicaid program has been unconstitutional since 1965, but we didn’t know it,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health policy professor at George Washington University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicaid is the workhorse of the nation’s health system, covering 30 percent of all children, 70 percent of nursing home residents and 40 percent of all deliveries. But because of its byzantine eligibility rules, the program still covers fewer than half of the people with incomes under the poverty level, or $23,025 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Depending on how sweeping and broadly written the decision is, it could be the entire Medicaid program has been unconstitutional since 1965, but we didn’t know it.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, in all but four states, children in families with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty level are eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Yet coverage for adults varies greatly by state, and whether a person is pregnant, working, disabled or has dependent children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median income level for parents to be eligible for Medicaid is now 63 percent of the poverty level, or about $14,000 for a family of four. 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But as some young survivors from Contra Costa County recently told me, abuse is also alarmingly common between teen boyfriends and girlfriends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence has been growing that it starts even younger than we previously imagined. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.rwjf.org/vulnerablepopulations/product.jsp?id=74129\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> published in March surveyed more than 1,400 seventh graders of diverse races. More than one in three reported being psychologically abused by a boyfriend or girlfriend within the past six months. 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Shocking events like the murder of 17-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/12/local/la-me-1012-school-stabbing-20111012\" target=\"_blank\">Cindi Santana\u003c/a>, stabbed by her ex-boyfriend on campus at her Los Angeles high school last September, have put the issue more on the radar.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between domestic violence and teen relationship violence is that school is often the platform for teen relationship violence, so there’s an even greater urgency for schools and policymakers to address it,” Los Angeles Unified School District board member Steve Zimmer told me in a recent phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research also shows that people’s relationship habits are laid down early, and the effects of childhood abuse can last a lifetime. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/TeenDatingViolence2012-a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report [PDF]\u003c/a> that among adult women who suffer rape, physical violence or stalking, 22 percent experienced their first incident of abuse between ages 11 and 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools are a pivotal place for prevention. Yet so far, only two California school districts – Oakland and Los Angeles – have explicit policies on dating violence, according to the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. (Oakland’s passed in 2006. Los Angeles adopted its policy last October, but it was in the works before Cindi Santana’s murder.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County is mounting a countywide effort and hopes some of its school districts will be next. A bill by California Assembly Member Ricardo Lara (D – Bell Gardens) that would have required middle and high schools to spell out teen dating abuse policies in their safety plans recently stalled in a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, recent \u003ca title=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/236175.pdf\" href=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/236175.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research [PDF]\u003c/a> shows that the classic prevention tactic – classroom lessons – by itself is not enough. To really change teens’ behavior, you have to change their environment. The CPEDV is leading a statewide campaign to get more schools to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look a the ecology of things, not one single intervention is going to do it. 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Your people who loved there,\" Jasmine said. \"Sometimes I feel like everything for me after Iraq is different: the roads, the air, the dust. I know back home. The dust of back home. I know the air of back home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"What happened will remain like a scar inside yourself. Especially like we saw a lot of stuff not normal ... Like people killed in front of your eye. I don’t believe I’m going to forget them.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jasmine said she was in survival mode in Iraq and experienced a delayed reaction to the stress of war. But when she did land in America, depression hit Jasmine hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\"What happened will remain like a scar inside yourself. Especially like we saw a lot of stuff not normal,\" Jasmine told me. \"Like dead people in the street. People killed in front of your eye. 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. 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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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The data also included teacher reports of children's interpersonal skills and feelings such as sadness or loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When children were tested one-on-one in math, those who were obese began scoring lower than their peers in first grade, the study found. The timing suggests that the relationship between obesity and poor academic performance takes root as children progress in school, Gable said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids who start school with weight problems come to kind of understand that, you know what? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children who have weight problems are not as well-received by their peers. That creates a condition or situation where developing social skills isn’t as easy,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://ns.missouri.edu/faculty_gable.html\" href=\"http://ns.missouri.edu/faculty_gable.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Gable\u003c/a>, the study's lead author and an associate professor in the department of nutrition and exercise physiology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For girls, but not for boys, difficulty developing social skills was related to obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stigma of obesity and lack of conformity to standards of physical appearance – girls are perhaps ... no pun intended, feeling the weight of that more,” Gable said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_07_08/obesity_child_07_08.htm\">increased dramatically\u003c/a> in recent decades. In the early 1970s, 5 percent of children ages 2 to 19 were obese. In 2007-08, 17 percent of kids in that age group were obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, physical fitness tests of public school students found \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/research_overweight2010.html\">38 percent of children were overweight or obese\u003c/a> in 2010. That rate varied dramatically across the state, from 11.3 percent among children in Manhattan Beach to 53 percent in Huntington Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their study, the researchers analyzed data tracking 6,250 children nationwide from kindergarten through fifth grade. They compared the academic performance of students who were obese in kindergarten or first grade and remained so through fifth grade with children who were never obese. The data also included teacher reports of children's interpersonal skills and feelings such as sadness or loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When children were tested one-on-one in math, those who were obese began scoring lower than their peers in first grade, the study found. The timing suggests that the relationship between obesity and poor academic performance takes root as children progress in school, Gable said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids who start school with weight problems come to kind of understand that, you know what? Maybe other people don’t like me because of this,” she said. “I don’t believe these children are ‘less smart,’ but I do believe if they’re put into a situation where they’re being expected to perform ... they don’t perform as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study's findings persisted across demographic differences, including race, household income, maternal educational attainment and employment status, and parental expectations for their child’s educational achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers of boys and girls who were persistently obese reported that the children expressed more anxiety and sadness - feelings that, while not clinical diagnoses, may reflect students' struggles, Gable said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school, those feelings and poor social skills could mean that students are less engaged in learning or find classroom situations such as writing on the board in front of their peers “very anxiety producing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the study could not account for potential bias among teachers, their observations of obese boys and girls were consistent across grades and schools, Gable said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors related to obesity – such as health conditions that interfere with learning or school attendance – could affect academic performance as well and merit further study, she added.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6503\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 331px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/nannybloombergad_0.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6503\" title=\"Ad from Center for Consumer Freedom.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/nannybloombergad_0.png\" alt=\"Ad from Center for Consumer Freedom.\" width=\"331\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/nannybloombergad_0.png 331w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/nannybloombergad_0-320x580.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full page ad which ran in the New York Times. Paid for by the Center for Consumer Freedom.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State of Health has followed \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/01/09/soda-tax-what-can-a-penny-do/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/01/09/soda-tax-what-can-a-penny-do/\" target=\"_blank\">the soda tax\u003c/a> issue closely. Richmond voters will decide in November whether their city will be \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\" target=\"_blank\">the first in California\u003c/a> to levy a soda tax. The City Council voted to put the measure on the ballot only after hours of heated public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the tax had many objections, not least of which was concern about an over-reaching government. So when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg \u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?_r=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">proposed limiting portion sizes\u003c/a> on sugary drinks, I wasn't surprised when opponents of the idea labelled it a \"nanny state\" tactic. Then came the full page ad in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> from the \u003ca title=\"http://www.consumerfreedom.com/\" href=\"http://www.consumerfreedom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Consumer Freedom\u003c/a>. I shrugged and confess that I was a little amused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then I read Heather Gehlert's post from the \u003ca title=\"http://www.bmsg.org/blog/how-sexist-language-is-undermining-efforts-to-improve-public-health\" href=\"http://www.bmsg.org/blog/how-sexist-language-is-undermining-efforts-to-improve-public-health\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Media Studies Group blog\u003c/a> and I rethought my blasé reaction. The \"nanny state\" label has gone viral -- 470,000 hits on Google when I search \"bloomberg nanny state.\" What's troubling here, Gehlert points out, is that the most effective name calling these days is to call the other side a woman. Noting the limited text in the ad, she says, \"likely because little explanation is required. Even with few extra details, the ad has done its job. It has evoked a limited and stereotype-driven definition of femininity.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gehlert was writing specifically for public health advocates. At \u003ca title=\"http://www.thepoliticalnotebook.com/post/24283635711/the-only-thing-im-interested-in-actually-talking-about?a8636a40\" href=\"http://www.thepoliticalnotebook.com/post/24283635711/the-only-thing-im-interested-in-actually-talking-about?a8636a40\" target=\"_blank\">The Political Notebook\u003c/a>, Torie Rose DeGhett isn't interested in soda. She issues a \"challenge to the language being used to talk about it.\" Specifically the term \"nanny state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A version of stereotyped femininity gets to be shorthand for what is considered overbearing, misguided action on the part of the government. Once again female gets to be a stand-in for bad and wrong and stupid. It’s an oft-used term, but it’s really being embraced in this particular debate. I’m going to venture a guess and point to the involvement of food and eating habits for that one. ... When someone is telling you what to do with your food, that’s a woman, right?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute. Shouldn't we all lighten up? After all, the term \"nanny state\" is about the government treating us like children. But in an interview today, Gehlert seconded DeGhett's point, \"If you say 'strict father state,'\" Gehlert told me, \"it doesn't come across as negative because if you have a strict father, you have a responsible parent. But if you have a strict mother, she's nagging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/12/07/could-richmond-be-first-california-city-to-tax-soda/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/12/07/could-richmond-be-first-california-city-to-tax-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">December\u003c/a> and again \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\" target=\"_blank\">in May\u003c/a>, many people in Richmond and surrounding cities spoke out in opposition to the proposed soda tax. They were worried about effects on local businesses, job loss and the regressiveness of the tax. Some also spoke about an over-reaching government. 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Another met his girlfriend through his treatment and therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each had been diagnosed with a mental illness, ranging from mild depression to schizophrenia. And they each found community and help within the walls of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.namistanislaus.org/\" href=\"http://www.namistanislaus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanislaus chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness\u003c/a> (NAMI).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">But before the shoot, a county nurse saw my makeshift studio setup and got suspicious.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/photography-gallery-faces-mental-illness886\" href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/photography-gallery-faces-mental-illness886\" target=\"_blank\">12 black and white portraits\u003c/a> ended up being one of the most popular galleries ever on the Modesto Bee website. The pictures in the print edition spanned two pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they almost didn’t happen.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The participants were game. Eager. When I pitched my idea, they practically lined up to be photographed. They seemed enthused by the possibility of showing that mentally ill people were regular people, people who could hold jobs, go to school, parent and teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the shoot, a county nurse saw my makeshift studio setup and got suspicious. Was I coercing people into being photographed? Was I tricking them into participating? Were they even able to give consent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was equal parts perplexed and angry. These folks were not in a hospital. They were not in jail. They did not have a guardian to speak on their behalf. 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Plus, we had been reporting \u003ca title=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/mental-health-care-breaking-down-stanislaus-county887\" href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/mental-health-care-breaking-down-stanislaus-county887\" target=\"_blank\">the story\u003c/a> for months. I had been to the NAMI office numerous times shooting photos for the project, which was scheduled to be published about two weeks from then. And, the project, for the most part, was about the mentally ill and how cuts to services had forced so many of them to lean ever harder on NAMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter. The county nurse insisted that we call her higher-ups to get permission to take the portraits. She was nervous we were violating a confidentiality agreement that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to get permission to get the participants’ permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implication: These people are incapable of consenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to \u003ca title=\"http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?section=NAMIWALKS&template=/customsource/namiwalks/walkerpage.cfm&walkerID=198295\" href=\"http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?section=NAMIWALKS&template=/customsource/namiwalks/walkerpage.cfm&walkerID=198295\" target=\"_blank\">Joyce Plis\u003c/a>, NAMI Stanislaus’s executive director. She called the Consumer and Family Affairs Manager for Stanislaus County. He told her to call the Behavioral Health Director for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was starting to doubt myself. Even if we got permission, was I exploiting mental health patients by plastering these people’s faces across the newspaper pages? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each had been diagnosed with a mental illness, ranging from mild depression to schizophrenia. And they each found community and help within the walls of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.namistanislaus.org/\" href=\"http://www.namistanislaus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanislaus chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness\u003c/a> (NAMI).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">But before the shoot, a county nurse saw my makeshift studio setup and got suspicious.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/photography-gallery-faces-mental-illness886\" href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/photography-gallery-faces-mental-illness886\" target=\"_blank\">12 black and white portraits\u003c/a> ended up being one of the most popular galleries ever on the Modesto Bee website. The pictures in the print edition spanned two pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they almost didn’t happen.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The participants were game. Eager. When I pitched my idea, they practically lined up to be photographed. They seemed enthused by the possibility of showing that mentally ill people were regular people, people who could hold jobs, go to school, parent and teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the shoot, a county nurse saw my makeshift studio setup and got suspicious. Was I coercing people into being photographed? Was I tricking them into participating? Were they even able to give consent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was equal parts perplexed and angry. These folks were not in a hospital. They were not in jail. They did not have a guardian to speak on their behalf. They were consenting adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-07-at-1.39.19-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6416\" title=\"Richard M. Hamilton at the photo shoot. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-07-at-1.39.19-PM-300x204.png\" alt=\"Richard M. Hamilton at the photo shoot. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard M. Hamilton at the photo shoot. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)(Lauren M. Whaley: CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I felt certain I had explained everything clearly. Plus, we had been reporting \u003ca title=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/mental-health-care-breaking-down-stanislaus-county887\" href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/mental-health-care-breaking-down-stanislaus-county887\" target=\"_blank\">the story\u003c/a> for months. I had been to the NAMI office numerous times shooting photos for the project, which was scheduled to be published about two weeks from then. And, the project, for the most part, was about the mentally ill and how cuts to services had forced so many of them to lean ever harder on NAMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter. The county nurse insisted that we call her higher-ups to get permission to take the portraits. She was nervous we were violating a confidentiality agreement that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to get permission to get the participants’ permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implication: These people are incapable of consenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to \u003ca title=\"http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?section=NAMIWALKS&template=/customsource/namiwalks/walkerpage.cfm&walkerID=198295\" href=\"http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?section=NAMIWALKS&template=/customsource/namiwalks/walkerpage.cfm&walkerID=198295\" target=\"_blank\">Joyce Plis\u003c/a>, NAMI Stanislaus’s executive director. She called the Consumer and Family Affairs Manager for Stanislaus County. He told her to call the Behavioral Health Director for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was starting to doubt myself. Even if we got permission, was I exploiting mental health patients by plastering these people’s faces across the newspaper pages? Or was I doing just the opposite, helping to demonstrate that these were ordinary people -- your friends, neighbors, co-workers -- who needed to be seen as just that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was I sensitive enough in trying to show who they are, that they look like anyone and everyone, that they’re not scary or deformed or dangerous?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My editor smoothed things over with the county. We typed up a permission form so each person I photographed put down in writing that they knew we would publish their portrait in the Modesto Bee and online. They were all perfectly comfortable with signing the form. They just wanted to know when the story would run. 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While that didn't change things for the majority, the dissenting judge, Judge N.R. Smith wrote, \"despite this significant change in our textual interpretation, the majority remains convinced that our original interpretation of the Parity Act was still correct based on conflicting legislative history and 'common sense.' I see it differently and am surprised by the majority's conclusion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlick's attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.kantorlaw.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Kantor\u003c/a> said the decision was only good news for her client. \"This is going to have far reaching implications for anyone who suffers from a severe mental illness,\" Kantor said. \"Because the decisions clearly states that all medically necessary treatment must be covered for those who suffer from those enumerated mental illnesses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Eating Disorders Association \u003c/a>also applauded the opinion. President \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/people/expert/lynn-grefe\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Grefe\u003c/a> said, \"Patients have been discriminated against by insurers through the years, so we hope this ruling will help turn the tide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an emailed statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueshieldca.com/home?seorefer=http%3A//www.google.com/url%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D1%26ved%3D0CKgBEBYwAA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.blueshieldca.com%252F%26ei%3DbbXPT_2ZEePImQXPn43tCg%26usg%3DAFQjCNFZ505bZNF3_gBnDkngBPeK2TAFuw\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Shield \u003c/a>sounded a positive note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Blue Shield of California is encouraged by the Ninth Circuit Court’s opinion in response to our petition challenging the Harlick decision. The new opinion corrected some of the errors that Blue Shield had pointed out in its Petition for Rehearing and includes a strong, well-reasoned dissent by Justice Smith, who supports Blue Shield's understanding of the California Mental Health Parity Act.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The statement went on to say that the insurer is seriously considering filing a new petition for rehearing or asking for a full court review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Lisa Kantor says people with mental illnesses and their families and advocates will be watching from around the country to what happens next. Kantor says Connecticut and Vermont have similar statutes and advocates for people with eating disorders are following the Harlick case, hoping they can get a similar court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers say they expect this is a starting point, not an end point. 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