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California Resources

This is Rural Health Podcast
Podcast featuring California and national-level experts in rural health, covering topics including community engagement, healthcare access, policy, oral health, telemedicine, workforce recruitment, and more.
Type: Video/Multimedia
Sponsoring organization: California State Rural Health Association
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California State Rural Health Association - Upcoming Events
Provides information on events hosted by the California State Rural Health Association, which support rural health in California through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
Type: Calendar/Event List
Sponsoring organization: California State Rural Health Association
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Central Valley Rural Education and Health Alliance
A collaboration of rural educators, administrators, and school-based health professions working to improve education and health outcomes in California's rural Central Valley. Includes resources and promising practices to address the physical, mental, and behavioral health of students, as well as reduce chronic absences, create a positive culture, and improve school readiness, among other issues.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Program
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California Telehealth Resource Center - Events
Shares upcoming events hosted by the California Telehealth Resource Center (CTRC) addressing telehealth policy, delivery, innovation, and more.
Type: Calendar/Event List
Sponsoring organization: California Telehealth Resource Center
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CDC WONDER Underlying Cause of Death with US-Mexico Border Regions, 1999-2020
Provides access to mortality and population data for the U.S.-Mexico border region. Offers data on the number of deaths, crude and age-adjusted death rates, and demographics for different causes of death. Cause of death data available for ICD-10 codes, drug/alcohol induced causes, causes of infant death, and injury intent and mechanism. In addition to viewing data for the border region, border states, and border counties, results can also focus on the level of urbanization for metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore areas.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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California Health Interview Survey
Offers detailed data on California's population health, including health conditions, health behaviors, mental health, healthcare access, food security, insurance coverage, and detailed demographics. Provides data in multiple formats: Health Profiles, a web-based interactive database that also allows you to download PDFs with county-level data; Public Use Data Files, which are formatted for statistical analysis programs; and AskCHIS and AskCHIS NE, which offer zip code and city-level data in a web-based interactive database and requires free registration.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
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California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
Addresses how climate change may impact public and environmental health in California to guide decision-making. Discusses the implications for tribal and rural communities throughout. Includes statewide and regional reports, as well as technical reports and tools.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organizations: California Natural Resources Agency, State of California Energy Commission, State of California Governor's Office of Planning and Research
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California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Provides over 400 datasets, including county level data, on healthcare workforce, mortality rates and causes, demographics, facilities and services, diseases and conditions, and the environment for California.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Services
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Medi-Cal Certified Eligibles - Recent Trends
Provides county and zip-code level data on enrollees in California's Medicaid program. Includes Excel files with the number of enrollees by county and age group, race/ethnicity, and language. Identifies the number eligible with and without the Affordable Care Act expansion by zip code and county.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: California Department of Health Care Services
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Cancer-Rates.info
Contains cancer incidence and mortality data for a number of states, with the option to view data by county, cancer type, gender, race and ethnicity, and in most cases, rural/urban geography.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky
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Additional resources are available. See a full list of California Resources.


Last Updated: 4/25/2024