Alcohol and Health: Understanding Individual,
Community, and Social Impacts of Alcohol
SAN
RAFAEL, Calif., April 16,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol Justice Executive
Director Cruz Avila, and Advocacy
Director Raul Verdugo will be
participating along with former Alcohol Justice Board Chair
Richard Zaldivar in the
23rd Annual UCLA Kaiser Permanente Equity
Symposium.
What: Daylong Symposium
Where: Center for Healthy Communities, California
Endowment, 1000 Alameda St, Los Angeles,
CA 90012
When: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Who:
- Roshan Bastani, PhD,
Director, UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity,
Co-Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research UCLA
Fielding School of Public Health
- Paul J. Chung, MD, MS, Chair of Health Systems
Science, Acting Director for Health Equity Research Core Kaiser
Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine
- Julio Meza, MD, Addiction and Family Medicine
Physician, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Psychiatry in
Primary Care Certified Physician, UC Irvine
- Relampago del Cielo, Inc. Grupo Folklorico
- Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DF, Medical Director,
Substance Abuse Prevention and Control, Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health
- Priscilla Martinez, PhD,
MPhil, Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director, Alcohol Research
Group, Public Health Institute
- Raul Verdugo, Director of
Advocacy, Alcohol Justice
- Veronica Romero, Sound Bath
- Winston Wong, MD, MS,
Chair, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity, National
Academy of Medicine Scholar-In-Residence, UCLA Kaiser Permanente
Center for Health Equity
- Richard L. Zaldivar, Founder The Wall Las
Memorias
- Cruz Avila, Executive Director, Alcohol
Justice
- Sandy Logan, CFP, CCPS,
ICPS, Program Director, Pueblo Y Salud
Why: This symposium offers a unique opportunity to glean
insights from leading experts at the intersection of alcohol and
health, understanding the impact of alcohol in our communities. The
event is aimed at fostering discussions, sharing innovative ideas,
encouraging networking, and inspiring action towards addressing
unhealthy alcohol use.
Alcohol-related deaths are out of control in California. They rose from 10,800 deaths
annually (Esser et al. 2020) in 2015 to 19,335 in 2021
(Jiménez, Demeter & Pinsker 2023). Alcohol-related driving
fatalities also continued to rise, from 966 in 2019 to 1370 in
2021 (California OTS 2023).
Alcohol cost $3,449 per capita
in CA. Statewide, in total, alcohol costs 2.9x as much
as illegal drug-related harm (NIH NLM 2017).
In 2021 there were 637,515 alcohol-related visits/admissions
reported in California. Medi-Cal was the
expected payer in 44.3%, Medicare in 24.4% - so 69% were public
insurance. Acute alcohol harm visits were most likely to be
in the 19–39-year-old age-range. Whites and Hispanics each
account for 40.9 percent of ED Visits and ED Admissions for chronic
alcohol-related conditions. These two race groups accounted for
over 80 percent of all encounters. (California Department of
Health Care Access and Information).
CONTACT: Michael
Scippa 415 847-3006
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