The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Findings from the California Health Interview Survey: Estimating Ethnic and Racial Disparities
3259.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Findings from the California Health Interview Survey: Estimating Ethnic and Racial Disparities
The session will present findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001) and demonstrate how researchers can use state-level surveys like CHIS. The CHIS 2001 sample includes more than 57,000 households in California surveyed through an RDD and list-based telephone survey. CHIS includes a very large and diverse sample for Latinos, a very large sample of Asian American/Pacific Islanders including Asian groups, and an unprecedented sample of American Indians/Alaska Natives; it also includes a large sample for African Americans. The session will present results from four studies using CHIS data: (1) a study of uninsurance, health insurance coverage, and eligibility for public coverage programs by race/ethnicity and socio-economic status; (2) a paper that explains how CHIS developed its detailed modeling of eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP and presents estimates by race/ethnicity; (3) a paper that explains how CHIS was designed to represent California’s ethnic and racial diversity adapted the questionnaires both culturally and linguistically; and (4) a paper that presents alternative methods of classifying respondents into racial and ethnic categories and the effects of each classification method on estimates for health indicators.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):E. Richard Brown, PhD
Discussant(s):Raynard S Kington, MD PhD
Moderator(s):Diana M. Bontá, RN, DrPH
2:30 PMWelcoming Remarks
2:45 PMRacial/ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage and uninsurance: Results from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey
E. Richard Brown, PhD, Thomas Rice, PhD, Ninez Alafriz Ponce, MPP, PhD, Shana B. Alex, MPP
3:00 PMDeveloping population-based estimates of eligibility for Medicaid (Medi-Cal) and SCHIP (Healthy Families): Results from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey
Jeff Luck, MBA, PhD, Jennifer Kincheloe, MPH, Wei Yen, PhD
3:15 PMCalifornia Health Interview Survey: Cultural and linguistic adaptation of a population-based survey for California’s multi-ethnic population
Ninez Alafriz Ponce, MPP, PhD, Charles DiSogra, DrPH, Shana B. Alex, MPP, Wei Yen, PhD, Delight E. Satter, MPH, E. Richard Brown, PhD
3:30 PMCreating a single race/ethnicity variable for the highly diverse sample in the 2001 California Health Interview Survey
Charles DiSogra, DrPH, Ninez Alafriz Ponce, MPP, PhD, Wei Yen, PhD, E. Richard Brown, PhD, Delight E. Satter, MPH
3:45 PMDiscussion
Organized by:Medical Care
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA