NYE Storm | Homelessness Street Medicine | Psychology Behind Wellness - Capital Public Radio News

An unexpectedly beardown tempest resulted successful extended flooding and harm to the Sacramento portion connected New Year’s Eve. Street medicine teams bring healthcare into homelessness encampments crossed the state. The science down wellness to thrive successful some caput and body.  

NYE storm

The extremity of 2022 proved to beryllium among the wettest connected grounds crossed galore spots successful Northern California, and the New Year did not disappoint.  From Sierra snowpack to unsafe winds toppling trees, monolithic powerfulness outages crossed the valley, and flooding shutting down Highway 99,  the archetypal days of January are shaping up to beryllium almighty weather-wise with the imaginable for stronger atmospheric rivers successful store this week.  While galore of america we’re counting down the timepiece to 2023, CapRadio was retired covering the New Year tempest and its aftermath. CapRadio’s Managing Editor of News Nick Miller joined Insight to supply the latest connected the storm's impact and sermon the bigger picture.   

Street medicine

Navigating healthcare is complicated. From establishing superior attraction to getting connected to specialists, knowing coverage, and knowing however overmuch services tin cost, the healthcare strategy is acold from user-friendly.  As California’s grounds unhoused colonisation continues to turn truthful does a homelessness wellness situation that strains exigency rooms arsenic good arsenic our motivation compass.  Because preventative attraction isn’t realistic for a susceptible colonisation that faces economical and logistical barriers to accessing a accepted brick-and-mortar doctor’s bureau oregon clinic. “Street medicine” has been astir for decades, created successful the aboriginal 1990s arsenic a instrumentality to straight connection aesculapian attraction to those surviving connected the streets. But this has agelong been a grassroots effect to homelessness which means accordant backing tin beryllium a large challenge. However, successful precocious 2022, California’s Medi-Cal agency, which serves low-income residents, announced a large alteration truthful that thoroughfare medicine tin acceptable into accepted healthcare. There presently are 25 thoroughfare medicine teams crossed the state.  CapRadio Healthcare Reporter Kate Wolffe, and Kristen Hwang who covers Health Policy for CalMatters, joined Insight to stock however thoroughfare medicine works from agrarian to municipality cities. 

Wellness psychology

Gym memberships, “Dry January,” cutting backmost connected spending, possibly achieving the ever elusive “work-life balance”  and a wide array of volition lists to make a amended twelvemonth for caput and body. The contented of resolutions is backmost due to the fact that it tin consciousness similar we suffer ourselves a spot by the extremity of the year. We get overwhelmed and caught up, which are the cleanable ingredients for accent and marque america consciousness depleted arsenic we bespeak connected what we privation to execute for the caller year.  But astatine the halfway of yearly extremity mounting is simply a tendency to amended our wellness whether it’s physical, mental, financial, oregon spiritual, and “well-being” is surely wrong our reach. Dr. Elissa Epel is Director of the Aging Metabolism and Emotions Center astatine UCSF and a New York Times bestselling writer with a caller publication "The Stress Prescription". She joined Insight to explicate the science down wellness.