“Health” is the title of the 6th program in a series of programs on Community Television of Santa Cruz County called “The War On Poverty in the 21st Century”. Produced by Community Television and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc.

    ·               Produced: Monday, August 26th, 2002
    ·               On Air September 2nd through September 30th, 2002
    ·               Mondays and Thursdays at  7:00 pm and Fridays at 3:00pm
    ·               Channel: 25 on AT&T Cable
    ·               Title: “Health”
    ·               An article on this series was featured in The Good Times on May 23rd. :You can view this article at:  http://www.cabinc.org/War_Goodtimes_poverty_tv.htm
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A child is born into poverty every 43 seconds.   A child is born without health insurance every minute.   Over 40 million Americans are not covered by health insurance of any kind including 9 million children, 90% of whom are living in working families.

For more than half a century the government at the local, state and federal level has played role in providing basic medical care to people who are elderly, disabled or who are living in or near poverty.  The government has not provided health programs for working people.  One of the few exceptions to this is Healthy Families, a program to provide health coverage to the children of working parents.

But this growing health crisis affects middle income working households as well as low and very low-income households.  Insurance rates continue to climb and people who buy their insurance as individuals, not as part of a group, find that as they age they are priced out of the market and lose their insurance.

This episode of the War On Poverty in the 21st Century we call “Health”. We will explore the history of health care in the United States, current programs that work and holes in our health care system and possible policy and programs that could reduce poverty related to health care in the 21st century.

Guests for this program::

Dr. Arnold Leff, M.D. is a former Santa Cruz County Health Officer who is now in private medical practice. He was deputy associate director of theWhite House Drug Abuse Office and a member of the congressional House Waysand Means Advisory Committee on National Health Insurance. Dr. Leff is certified in Family Medicine, HIV Medicine, and Hospice Medicine. Welcome Dr. Arnold Leff  

Betsy McCarty, RN, MS is Chief of Public Health for the County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency - the County Health Department. Her responsibilities include administration of the County's Public Health Nurses, Communicable

Disease Control, Maternal and Child Health Promotion, the Homeless Persons Health Project, Community Health Education and Prevention, HIV Education and Care Services and Children's Health Services.

And Roy Jimenez: works for Salud Para La Hente, a private non-profit Primary care clinic providing a wide range of medical and health education services to the South Santa Cruz County community, and while all are welcome the clinics focus is toward low-income Spanish-speaking families.

The host and CAB Inc. producer of the series, Paul Rachuy Brindel, 

 

More "Health"  Links of Interest:

 

UNINSURED ADULTS MORE LIKELY TO DIE PREMATURELY
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/uninsured?OpenDocument
WASHINGTON -- Americans without health insurance are more likely to have poorer health and die prematurely than those with insurance, says a new report from the National Academies' Institute of Medicine. Uninsured patients with colon or breast cancer face up to a 50 percent greater chance of dying than patients with private coverage. Uninsured victims of trauma also are more likely to die from their injuries. Being uninsured for even a year appears to diminish a person's general health.

Health Advocate's Guide to the Internet:  http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/199910HAInternet0.html

National Health Law Program

30 Years of Working for
Justice in Health Care for Low Income People
http://www.healthlaw.org/
 

  • Executive Producer of the series is Geoffrey Dunn, Executive Director of Community Television of Santa Cruz County.

  • Kathy D’Angelo produces the series for Community Television.

  • Craig Jutson directs the program series.

  • Contact:  For Community Television, Kathy D'Angelo– 425-8848

  •  For Community Action Board, Paul Rachuy Brindel – 457-1741 ext 160

  • For more on the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc go to: www.cabinc.org

  • Go To "The War On Poverty" Index of Programs and Resources

  • For more on Community Television of Santa Cruz County go to: http://communitytv.org/index.html

  • 10/08/06

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