California Health Interview Survey releases new 2011-12 data on health of Californians

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) today released new data based on interviews with more than 44,000 households in California. The survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, covered hundreds of topics affecting state residents' health and well-being. (See a complete list of topics here.)   Data on nearly 200 of these topics were released today on AskCHIS, the center's award-winning, free, easy-to-use Web tool that provides data by state, region, county and some service-planning areas in Los Angeles and San Diego counties. Even more data were released through free, downloadable public-use files from the CHIS website.Additional data will be released through AskCHIS in the coming months.The data represent a two-year (2011–12) effort to survey a representative sample of Californians in all 58 counties. CHIS is the largest state health survey in the nation and one of the few to provide robust samples of many typically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.  Health care reform questions   The latest survey asked many questions that will be important in measuring the implementation of health care reform in California, among them:  How many Californians are uninsured? Who is eligible to participate in Medi-Cal? Who is eligible to participate in Covered California, the state's new health insurance exchange? How many Californians are signing up for high-deductible health plans?  In addition, the 2011–...
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