Date: 10/11/2011
Contact 1 Full Name: Gwendolyn Driscoll
Contact 1 Company: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
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Nearly three-dozen APHA presentations feature Center researchers or CHIS data

As the nation stands poised to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), policymakers and providers are struggling with how this sweeping reform of the health care coverage system will be both achieved and monitored.
 
Two special sessions at the upcoming 2011 American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting will spotlight Center initiatives designed to provide answers to both these concerns.
 
APHA will also feature nearly three dozen presentations featuring Center researchers or CHIS data, on topics ranging from how women find out about HPV to race/ethnicity and homeownership, to state health care cost containment strategies.  See all presentations here.
 
The first session, moderated by the Center’s director, E. Richard Brown, will describe progress to date on a new national network of state and local health surveys dedicated to promoting coordination in the collection of state and local data that is comparable across states and local areas and with national surveys.  Such data is critical to local public health planning efforts and to monitoring the success of health care reform programs as they are implemented across the states. Learn more about this session.
 
The second session, moderated by Nadereh Pourat, the Center’s director of research, provides information and some preliminary results of one of the first major demonstration projects to seek innovative new ways to expand coverage to the indigent and low-income.  This project, which began with just 10 California counties, has since expanded to encompass all 58 California counties and is considered an important health care reform model on how to extend the umbrella of health care coverage to hard-to-reach populations. Learn more about this session.
 
APHA, taking place Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 in Washington, D.C., is the largest gathering of public health professionals in the nation and provides a first look at new health research by leaders in the field.
See a complete list of all Center and CHIS APHA presentations here.
 
Pick up FREE publications and data resources at the Center’s APHA exhibit table:#4038 (opposite the CDC) [Map
 
Learn more about APHA.

 

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