California Agencies and Resources

City Agencies

City of Berkeley Division of Public Health

Includes Health Status Reports, and more.

San Francisco. Department of Public Health

Provides many full-text reports on San Francisco health issues. Included are AIDS Surveillance Unit Quarterly Reports; Annual AIDS Surveillance Report; Asthma in San Francisco, 2000; Bosnian Refugees in San Francisco; Cancer Incidence Among Residents of the Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood, San Francisco, California, 1993-1995; and Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth in San Francisco, 1998.

Overview of Health (Health status report).

State of the City Public Health Address

County Agencies

Alameda County. Public Health Department

Contains some Healthy People 2000 objectives for Alameda County, information on communicable diseases, vital statistics such as birth, death, and infant death data, and other reports and data, including city health profiles.

Contra Costa County. Health Services Department

Includes health data on:

HIV Infection and AIDS

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Tuberculosis

Other Reportable Diseases

Substance Abuse

Family Violence

Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health

Heart Disease and Stroke

Mortality Statistics

Cancer

Motor Vehicle Collisions

Nutrition

Occupational Health

Unintentional Injuries

Violent and Abusive Behavior

Chronic Disease and Diabetes.

Organizations and Agencies

Cal/EPA

Air Resources Board

Completed and Ongoing Research

Short descriptions and final reports of all of the ARB Research Division's research projects conducted since January 1989, including those in progress, are available here.

Department of Pesticide Regulation

This site contains information on pesticide laws, regulatory and rulemaking information, data on pesticide use, on pesticide residue on fresh produce, pesticide illness surveillance, and information on exposure, sampling, and more. Also includes links to the US EPA/OPP Pesticide Product, Chemical Ingredients, Product Labels, and Company Information Databases.

Department of Toxic Substances Control

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

California Proposition 65 documents

Prop 65 chemicals list

Toxics Directory

This directory lists agencies and organizations that can provide information about or have authority over toxic substances and their health effects.

Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC)

"Environmental indicators are measurements that track environmental conditions over time. When included as part of a planning process, environmental indicators can be used in setting goals and tracking progress toward those goals. The EPIC Project is responsible for maintaining an environmental indicator system to assist environmental programs in evaluating the outcomes of their efforts, and in identifying areas that require more attention."

Toxicity Criteria Database

Search by chemical name or CAS number to find cancer potency information, acute reference exposure levels, chronic exposure reference levels, California public health goals, Proposition 65 information, and more.

California. Bureau of State Audits. State Auditor

"The State Auditor conducts financial and performance audits as directed by statute, and other government audits requested by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. The State Auditor also administers the California Whistleblower Protection Act." Reports from 1993 to the present are available online.

California. Department of Aging

California. Department of Finance

Includes the Demographic Research Unit which is designated as the single official source of demographic data for State planning and budgeting.

California Demographic Research Unit Reports

Topics of the reports include California city and county population estimates, legal immigration to California by county, fertility of immigrant women in California, and refugee immigration to California.

California Department of Public Health

California Birth Defects Monitoring Program

Brief tables of Birth Defects in California and fact sheets and data on selected birth defects.

Statistics

Public health and vital statistics data

Occupational Health Branch

Surveillance, evaluation, and public education about occupational disease and injury among California workers.

California. Department of Industrial Relations

California Code of Regulations. Title 8 CAL/OSHA Standards

Division of Occupational Safety and Health

California. Department of Managed Health Care

This site includes HMO financial data, data on consumer complaints, Department enforcement actions, and information on getting help from one's HMO.

California Environmental Resource Evaluation Systems (CERES)

"CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments."

California Healthy Kids Resource Center

At this site, one may "access reviewed health education material for free loan, research summaries, school health laws, programs, and consultant servcies, and links to reviewed health education websites". Subjects covered include HIV/AIDS education, nutrition education, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, mental health, and more. A newsletter is also available.

California. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development

Has some healthcare infrastructure data: construction, utilization, finances and more.

California Rural Health Policy Council

"The mission of the California Rural Health Policy Council is to formulate and establish rural health policy, to provide a focal point for discussion of policy issues within the California Health and Human Services Agency, to receive recommendations from rural health constituencies, and to improve services provided to rural health providers. The Council responds to requests from rural providers, assists with recruitment through an employment clearinghouse, assists with funding through a funding clearinghouse on its web site and by awarding rural health grants," and more.

California State Home Page - Government

Medical Board of California

The Medical Board of California licenses and disciplines doctors. Consumers can contact the Board to find out license information and to investigate complaints against physicians.

Official California Legislative Information

Includes California Law and current bills and legislation.

Publications and Databases

California Behavioral Risk Factor Survey 1995 Update

"The California Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS) is an ongoing telephone survey conducted by the California Department of Health Services to assess the prevalence of and trends in health-related behaviors in the adult California population." This is an update to "California Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance, 1991."

California Code of Regulations

Excludes Title 24, California Building Standards.

California Health Interview Survey

"The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is a collaborative project of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the California Department of Health Services, and the Public Health Institute. CHIS is the largest state health survey in the United States. It is a telephone survey conducted every two years on public health topics and access to health care." The web site contains the questionnaires, data files, and AskCHIS, an online data query system. (Requires one-time, free registration).

California State Assembly. Office of the Chief Clerk: Archives

Historical Archives of California State Assembly Journals (1949-1997), Histories and Indexes (1881-2001), and Statutes (1850-1995), are available here. You can read the original statute as it appears in Statutes and Amendments to the Codes. You can also read the bill history, which lists all of the action taken on a bill. And, the Assembly Journals provide information on the legislative intent of bills. Note: documents on this site consist of very large pdf files that may take many minutes to download.

California Statistical Abstract

The California Statistical Abstract is "a compilation of data on social, economic, and physical aspects of the State. The volume is a cooperative effort of various government agencies, coordinated and issued annually by the California Department of Finance, Economic Research Unit."

Counting California

A collaborative project of the California Digital Library and the Library of California, this database provides access to data compiled by federal, state, and local agencies and allows users to collate and integrate data by topic, geography, title, and provider. Some of the broad topics covered include education, health and vital statistics, income, poverty, and cost of living, land, water, and climate, population and demographics, and social services and public assistance. Now includes Census 2000 data.

Public Health Preparedness in California: Lessons Learned from Seven Health Jurisdictions (RAND Corp., 2004)

This Rand report assesses gaps in California's public health infrastructure, beginning with an assessment of preparedness for a public health emergency. The study makes several findings and recommendations regarding redundancies, jurisdictional issues, and costs.

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book

The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book is a local area supplement to Statistical Abstract of the United States. Data is broken down by state and metropolitan area. Data includes but is not limited to population figures; vital statistics; Social Security, Food Stamp, and School Lunch Programs; medicare and medicaid. The full publications is available as a pdf file.

USA Counties

USA Counties provides data for the United States, 50 states and the District of Columbia, and counties. Some of the general topics covered include age, crime, earnings, education, health, housing, income, population, poverty, and vital statistics.

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