Can Raising the State's Minimum Wage Improve Public Health?

In a California Healthline report by Rachel Dornhelm, experts discussed research efforts to gauge public health effects of public policy decisions — such as the recent effort to increase the minimum wage, which some researchers say could mean long-range health improvements for lower-income Californians.

The report includes comments from:

Rajiv Bhatia, visiting scholar at the UC-Berkeley School of Public Health;
Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; Mark Leno, state senator from San Francisco;
Mike Schommer, communications director for the Minnesota Department of Health; and
Lea Selitsky, a Wayne State University medical student (Dornhelm, California Healthline, 7/9/14).

You can download a PDF of this report.

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<p>In a <em>California Healthline </em>report by Rachel Dornhelm, experts discussed research efforts to gauge public health effects of public policy decisions — such as the recent effort to increase the minimum wage, which some researchers say could mean long-range health improvements for lower-income Californians.</p><p>The report includes comments from:</p><ul><li>Rajiv Bhatia, visiting scholar at the UC-Berkeley School of Public Health;</li><li>Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; Mark Leno, state senator from San Francisco;</li><li>Mike Schommer, communications director for the Minnesota Department of Health; and</li><li>Lea Selitsky, a Wayne State University medical student (Dornhelm, <em>California Healthline</em>, 7/9/14).</li></ul><p>You can <a href="https://californiahealthline.org/legacy/A46CB5BB-F1E3-4A59-B589-53733259D2C5">download a PDF</a> of this report.</p><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><img src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&t=event&ec=Republish&tid=UA-72777370-1&z=1713445644567&cid=e9d5ade2-2167-48e8-9d65-99797ef555c5&ea=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniahealthline.org%2Fnews%2Fcan-raising-the-states-minimum-wage-improve-public-health%2F&el=Can%20Raising%20the%20State%27s%20Minimum%20Wage%20Improve%20Public%20Health%3F"/>

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