Did You Know?

The most popular health search topics for Californians are health insurance, alternative medicine and experimental treatments.
http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemID=21627

Low-income Californians are as likely as their wealthier counterparts to use the Internet to find health information.
http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemID=21627

Only 21% of children ages 9-11 in California eat the recommended minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
http://www.lpfch.org/informed/facts/weight/overweight.pdf

35% of California 7th graders were not a healthy weight in 2003.
http://www.lpfch.org/informed/facts/weight/overweight.pdf

More than 7% of adults in California have been diagnosed with diabetes compared to 4.8 % of adults nationally.
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/prev/state/table16.htm

African Americans represent 17% of all AIDS cases in California, even though they constitute only 7% of the state’s population.
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/AIDS/aboutoa/pdf/FastFacts101502.pdf

There were 125,173 cumulative reported cases of AIDS in California as of April 2002, which is 15.9% of all reported AIDS cases in the United States.
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/AIDS/aboutoa/pdf/FastFacts101502.pdf

Only 48% of women over the age of 40 have had a mammogram and clinical breast exam in the past year, compared to more than 55% nationally.
http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/CPED2004PWSecured.pdf

There were 125,000 new cases of cancer in California in 2003, ranking California as the 43rd highest overall in cancer mortality among the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/CancerBurden/pdf/ca.pdf

Almost one-half of California’s uninsured have family income greater than 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, placing them above the threshold for most public assistance programs.
http://www.chcf.org/

21% of California’s uninsured are under the age of 18.
http://www.chcf.org/

25% of California’s uninsured have a family income above $50,000.
http://www.chcf.org

Almost 70% of California’s uninsured children are in families where the head of household works full-time.
http://www.chcf.org/documents/insurance/CaliforniaUninsuredSnapshot2003.pdf

California has the sixth largest proportion of uninsured individuals in the nation.
http://www.chcf.org/documents/insurance/CaliforniaUninsuredSnapshot2003.pdf

More than 1.5 million Californians under the age of 18 were without health insurance in 2002.
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3.3 million Californians, approximately the population of Kentucky, lacked health insurance for more than a year in 2001.
http://www.chcf.org/healthcurrents/

Around 21% of Californians lacked health insurance at some point in 2001.
http://www.chcf.org/healthcurrents/

Approximately 6.5 million Californians – slightly more than 20% of the non-elderly population – went without health insurance at some point in 2002.
http://www.chcf.org/healthcurrents/

People lacking health insurance most likely have jobs in retail, trade or agriculture.
http://www.chcf.org/healthcurrents/

People lacking health insurance most likely earn less than $9.85 an hour and work in firms with fewer than 50 employees.
http://www.chcf.org/healthcurrents/

In LA County alone, nearly 1.4 million adults were uninsured for all of 2001.
http://www.lapublichealth.org/ha/survey/ha03surv_topics.htm

It is estimated that 2,300,693 residents of LA County are uninsured.
http://www.ccalac.org/

The uninsured segment of the population is 24% in LA County alone.
http://www.ccalac.org/

In LA County alone, more than one-fourth of the non-elderly population, nearly 2.2 million people, lacked health insurance during at least part of 2001.
http://www.lapublichealth.org/ha/survey/ha03surv_topics.htm

Almost 14% of adults in LA County could not afford to see a doctor when they had a health problem in the past year.
http://www.lapublichealth.org/ha/survey/ha03surv_topics.htm

Adults in LA County report feeling unhealthy a little more than six days a month, higher than the 4.6 days reported on average in the United States.
http://www.lapublichealth.org/ha/survey/ha03surv_topics.htm