What Will Happen to California if Supreme Court Nullifies Health Law?

Mar. 28, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: community, Health, Healthcare, insurance, Medical

New America Media, Question & Answer, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Mar 28, 2012

Photo courtesy of the National Partnership for Women and Families from their Supreme Court demonstration Tuesday on the health care reform law...

Dirty Crude Spells Dirty Air in California

Mar. 27, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: Air Pollution, community, Environment, Health, refineries

New America Media/InsideClimate News, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Mar 27, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries now produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country...

California at Forefront of Implementing Affordable Care Act

Mar. 23, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: community, Health, Healthy Communities, Medicaid, Medical Care, Medicare

http://vimeo.com/39003089

New America Media, Video, Report: Viji Sundaram / Video: Josue Rojas, Posted: Mar 23, 2012

SACRAMENTO – Today, as the nation commemorates the second anniversary of the signing of the landmark health care reform law by President Obama, California has perhaps more reason to celebrate than most other states for being at the forefront of enacting the law...

Healthy Food Program Helps Patients Manage Disease

Mar. 22, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: community, Health, Healthy Food, Urban, Vegetables

New America Media, Photo Essay, Monica Quesada, Posted: Mar 22, 2012

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif...

Veterans Struggle with Loneliness, Depression, Hopelessness

Mar. 20, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: community, Family, Health, mental health, suicide, veterans

By Raymond P. Bondad,
Coachella Unincorporated

Every year, thousands of men and women exit the military with hopes for a new life for themselves and their families...

Growing Old, Sick and Latino in the South Without Papers

Mar. 19, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: community, Health, Latino, Medical Care

Mundo Hispanico/New America Media , News Feature, Johanes Roselló, Posted: Mar 16, 2012

Traducción al español

First of two articles...

The Challenge for Kids’ Health Insurance – Keeping Them Enrolled

Mar. 14, 2012 / By New America Media
Tags: California, children, community, Health, insurance

New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Mar 14, 2012

When the breadwinner of a Hmong family in Merced, Calif.,..

Long Beach Full Hub Community Meeting

Mar. 7, 2012 / By
Tags: community, Education, Health

VoiceWaves will be at the first Full Hub Community Meeting of the year sponsored by Building Healthy Communities...

Community Health Survey 2012

Feb. 12, 2012 / By
Tags: Health, Long Beach, Survey

Let your voice be heard, the greater Long Beach area Community Health
Survey is now online!..

Resources for Children’s Health in Long Beach

Feb. 7, 2012 / By
Tags: children, community, Health, Resources

As part of VoiceWaves mission to spotlight Long Beach Community Resources to Build a Healthy Community, we present The Children’s Clinic. ..

Turning Data into Action: Fighting Air Pollution in Two Immigrant Communities

Jan. 27, 2012 / By
Tags: Air Pollution, Health, Long Beach, pollution

“Turning Data into Action (TDA): Fighting Air Pollution in Two Immigrant Communities” is a community-academic collaboration to reduce disparities in asthma, cardiovascular disease and infant birth weight...