Tag: Health

  • Employee Rights Center Surveys Paleteros On Health and Safety

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Push cart food vendors crisscross the residential neighborhoods around Fairmount Avenue in City Heights. They’re known as paleteros, a Spanish term for mobile food workers, and residents can hear them coming down the block by their unmistakeable ringing bells. Paleteros serve ice cream,…

  • Coalition Wants 100% Enrollment in Safety Net Programs by 2020

    By Megan Burks San Diego labor, faith and community groups gathered Saturday at the County Administration Center to demand the county achieve 100 percent enrollment in federal social safety-net programs by 2020. The group calls itself the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition and it’s drawing on an October study that says San Diego County has failed to…

  • Study Aims to Locate How San Diego Neighborhoods Affect Health

    These three wearable devices will track study participants’ motion and location for two weeks, Nov. 4, 2015. | Photo Credit: David Wagner, KPBS By David Wagner When it comes to where San Diegans live, do wealthier neighborhoods produce healthier people? Or is it more about walkability, proximity to parks, or access to good food? Researchers…

  • La Maestra Launches Mobile Breast Exam Unit

    Community leaders celebrated San Diego’s first mobile mammography coach Monday. It’s a bus outfitted with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and will bring mammograms to women where they live, work and run errands. Susan G. Komen San Diego reports local doctors see slightly more late-stage breast cancer diagnoses than doctors in other parts of the state. La…

  • Lawmakers Drop Effort to Open Covered California to Immigrants Here Illegally

    By Kenny Goldberg A legislative effort to allow people who are here illegally to buy Covered California health plans has been shelved. State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) removed a section from his bill (Senate Bill 4) that would have let those immigrants buy unsubsidized health insurance through California’s insurance exchange. An estimated 2.7 million…