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    The document provides an overview of health disparities in California. It highlights that communities of color comprise 64% of the state's population but experience higher rates of diseases like diabetes, mental illness, and asthma. COVID-19 also widened health inequities, with Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities having case and death rates 2-3 times higher than whites. While 80% of Medi-Cal enrollees are people of color, Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native communities have substantially higher rates of preventable hospitalizations. The document calls for engagement to advance health equity and ensure communities of color have a voice in improving public health.

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    The document provides an overview of health disparities in California. It highlights that communities of color comprise 64% of the state's population but experience higher rates of diseases like diabetes, mental illness, and asthma. COVID-19 also widened health inequities, with Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities having case and death rates 2-3 times higher than whites. While 80% of Medi-Cal enrollees are people of color, Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native communities have substantially higher rates of preventable hospitalizations. The document calls for engagement to advance health equity and ensure communities of color have a voice in improving public health.

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    The document provides an overview of health disparities in California. It highlights that communities of color comprise 64% of the state's population but experience higher rates of diseases like diabetes, mental illness, and asthma. COVID-19 also widened health inequities, with Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities having case and death rates 2-3 times higher than whites. While 80% of Medi-Cal enrollees are people of color, Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native communities have substantially higher rates of preventable hospitalizations. The document calls for engagement to advance health equity and ensure communities of color have a voice in improving public health.

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    The LANDSCAPE OF OPPORTUNITY is an overview of the current

    state of health disparities and challenges facing California. It serves


    as a resource for advocates and policymakers alike, highlighting
    Landscape key areas where inequities persist that are ripe for future action to
    of advance health equity.
    Opportunity
    Scan here for complete
    document and sources

    Section 1: California's Diverse Communities ≥


    44% OF CALIFORNIANS ( 5 YEARS)
    44% SPEAK A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH
    AT HOME.
    Communities of color comprise 64%
    64%
    of the state’s 39 million people.

    Percent of total California population (39 million)

    White More than 1 in 4 Californians are immigrants (27%).


    Latino 36.1%
    %
    4%
    39.5% American Indian and Alaska Native
    0.4%

    Native Hawaiian and other pacific islander


    0.4%

    Other Race
    0.3%
    Multiracial 46% of children have at least one parent who was
    Black 3.1%
    Asian born in a country other than the U.S.
    5.5%
    14.6%

    Section 2: Disparities in Health Status 3x Diabetes prevalence is 3x higher for the


    Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander
    higher community than whites.
    Mental illness is common among people
    incarcerated. Nearly 1 in 3 females
    and 1 in 5 males. HIGHest American Indian and Alaska Native (6.8%)
    and Black (5.3%) communities have the
    Rates highest rates of serious mental illness.

    Asthma rates are highest for Blacks, Poor oral health is 50% higher for Black,
    multiracial and American Indian and 50%
    Asian, and Latinx communities compared
    Alaska Native communities at 20%. higher to whites.

    July 2023
    Section 3: Inequity in Health Care Delivery COVID-19 widened health disparities.
    Cumulative statewide data show Native Cases
    Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
    3X
    44% felt community-
    connected
    providers were most helpful
    communities suffered a COVID-19 case
    rate 3x that of their White counterparts
    and a death rate nearly 2x greater. In
    when they or a loved one Deaths
    total, over 64,000 BIPOC (Black,
    experienced a mental health 2x
    Indigenous, People of Color) lives have
    crisis.
    been lost to COVID-19.

    As of July 1, 2022, Medi-Cal


    began covering community communities of color are 64% of California's
    health worker services. 80% of total population, but are over-enrolled in
    Medi-Cal (80%, driven by Black and Latino
    Medi-Cal
    Black and American Indian and Alaska populations).
    Native communities have the highest Covering approximately 13 million Californians (1 in 3),
    Substantially
    rates of preventable hospitalizations, California's Medi-Cal program for persons with low income
    higher 13.8% and 10.2%, respectively vs. 8.9% is the largest Medicaid program in the country.
    for Whites.
    Percent uninsured by race/ethnicity, 2021
    What is a preventable hospitalization?
    A hospitalization is considered preventable when
    timely primary care could have maintained a
    person's health and kept them out of the hospital.
    It also reflects the social drivers of health,
    because transportation, housing, ease of
    communication, and payment for medications are
    influenced by social factors that impact health.

    Nearly 1 out of 8 Latinos still lacks any health insurance.

    Section 4: Landscape of the Future


    An engaged community is a healthy community.

    Asian and Latinx communities reported they are sometimes or never 43% 40% 21%
    engaged in voting 2x as often as their White counterparts. Asian Latinx white

    Together, we can ensure we not only have a voice in the development of an improved public health and health care system but are
    committed leaders in the movement for racial justice and health equity.

    We invite you to join us in this historic effort! July 2023

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