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		<title>Fair Pay in Best Interests of Home Care Consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/12008</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ California home care workers and consumers won a major victory when an agreement was reached to limit proposed cuts to service hours in the In-Home Supportive Services program for fiscal year 2014. Yet home care workers in California – and across the nation – still await another critical decision that will affect their paychecks and their dignity: whether a federal labor law will continue to exclude home care workers from minimum wage and overtime protections.]]></description>
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		<title>A chronic disease that targets women</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11996</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 05:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine being unable to do the things you love to do, like playing sports, writing, or holding hands with someone you love.  For most of us, that seems unimaginable, but for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) it’s a painful reality.  That’s because RA systematically attacks the body joint by joint causing inflammation so bad, it’s often tough to even walk.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Futures At Risk: Preventing Children&#8217;s Exposure to Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11596</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture yourself walking through a forest. Now, imagine that you've come face to face with a large bear. Instantly, your emergency response system kicks into gear, flooding your body with stress hormones. Your pupils dilate, your heart starts beating fast, and your skin becomes cold and clammy. The executive, cognitive portion of your brain shuts off so you can focus only on two options-fight or flight.

Your body's emergency response system could save your life-if a bear in the forest really is confronting you. But, what happens if that big bear is waiting for you when you get home every day? Or follows you as you walk down the street to the local store? Or threatens you in the schoolyard? In the face of such extreme and repeated danger, your emergency response can go from saving your life to damaging your health and well-being.


Around the country, this scenario is similar to the reality faced by millions of children who experience violence and trauma at home, in their schools, and in their communities. According to a report by the U.S. Attorney General's Defending Childhood task force, our children are experiencing and witnessing violence on an alarming scale. The numbers are staggering. Approximately two out of every three children in the U.S. are exposed to violence.
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		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11567</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preventive measures and an active, healthy lifestyle are without question the best way to maintain good health and keep down health care costs for everyone, and the California Endowment and UC Davis want to spread that message far and wide.

	The Endowment's Health Happens Here campaign promotes the idea that people live longer, healthier lives when communities have access to healthy and affordable choices where they live, work, play and learn. 
	
	UC Davis is following the Health Happens Here model to help its students achieve healthy, vibrant lifestyles in an integrative wellness campaign that can be replicated at college campuses everywhere.]]></description>
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		<title>Changing a community to fight high blood pressure</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11324</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Ritterman Can a city lower its own blood pressure? I was inspired to ask that question while seated with a number of medical and health policy luminaries at a recent gala marking the 40th anniversary of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco. Among the many health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need more medical interpreters</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11297</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than a million Californians, the promise of expanded access to health care is at risk – because nurses and doctors can't understand the language they are speaking.]]></description>
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		<title>Electric vehicles are good for our health</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11073</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to improve your health?  Drive an electric vehicle. Ok, so maybe that is overstating it a bit. Beyond improving your psychic well being, an electric car will have a negligible impact on your individual health. However, if everyone were to start driving Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEVs), the cumulative impact on public health would be dramatic.]]></description>
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		<title>Making Smoke-free Housing Laws Strong – but Humane</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/11039</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in California, when it comes to protecting people from secondhand smoke, we’ve reached what some are calling the final frontier – laws restricting smoking in apartments, condos, and other multi-unit housing. But as more and more California cities and counties move forward with smoke-free housing laws, another major public health concern often gets lost in the shuffle: how to make sure these new laws don’t put low-income residents at risk of losing their homes.]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego neighborhood pushes for park</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/10871</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The landscape of the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego is challenging for people who want to stay healthy and prevent disease.

City Heights is 100 acres short of usable park space by San Diego guidelines, according to a 2012 KPBS report, and unhealthy choices are everywhere within its  borders.
“Within seven square miles of City Heights, there are nearly 60 fast-food restaurants, 40 convenience stores and 120 liquor vendors,” according to a 2011 Health Equity by Design report by WalkSanDiego.

So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that hundreds demanded a skatepark in City Heights in December.]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland Army base re-use could yield thousands of jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.healthycal.org/archives/10798</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two years, Jessica Lopez, 17, went to campaign meetings after school and on weekends, attended city council hearings late into the night, and did her homework after that. As a youth leader in the Oakland organization Urban Peace Movement (UPM), Jessica was among the community members who helped push for a landmark good jobs agreement in Oakland’s Army Base redevelopment plan—the largest development project Oakland has seen in decades. 

At first, Jessica knew nothing about the Oakland Army Base, which had been closed since 1999 and locked in years of redevelopment planning since the city took it over in 2002. The former military base, which once served as a major deployment station for U.S. soldiers shipped to Vietnam, is now being turned into a shipping, packaging and distribution center for the adjacent Port of Oakland. With this makeover come potentially thousands of new jobs that have been the target of a bold and nationally precedent-setting campaign. 

The landmark jobs agreement, won by a broad coalition called Revive Oakland!, is the first in the nation to set labor and community standards around the rapidly growing and notoriously low-road warehouse and distribution industry. Oakland, organizers say, is being watched in other parts of the country as a model for setting standards that could begin to shift this sector, which supplies big retailers across the country and employs an estimated 200,000 workers in California, into one capable of providing middle-class jobs. 
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