LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE:LOS ANGELES LEADERS IN HEALTH

PRELIMINARY FINDINGS

Fernando J. Guerra Brianne Gilbert Melissa Woehrstein

The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey

Center for the Study of Los Angeles

Loyola Marymount University

BACKGROUND

Leadership Initiative: Identify, survey and report the opinions and

attitudes of 100 leaders in 10 different sectors:

Culminating in the analysis of the top 1000 leaders in the Los Angeles region.

HealthEducation

PoliticsArts/Culture

Media/Entertainment

BusinessCommunity

LawLand use/Housing

Religion/Spirituality

METHODOLOGY

2010 Leadership Initiative – Los Angeles Leaders in Health Surveyed health leaders who impact policy,

practice, advocacy and/or research.

A total of 63 leaders have participated as of the reporting date (4/12/10).

Research sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Gender: 52% Male; 44% Female; 3% Non-response

Highest Level of Education: 79% of respondents reported having a Graduate/Professional degree*

Racial/Ethnic Origin: 40% White/Anglo; 19% Latino/Hispanic; 13% African American/Black; 10% Asian/Pacific Islander; 11% Other; 8% Non-response

Residency: 86% of respondents live in Los Angeles County; 62% have lived in Los Angeles for 16 years or more

*Findings only include the most frequent response

IDEOLOGICAL BELIEFS

27%

32%

27%

10% 5% Liberal

Moderately liberal

Moderate

Moderately conservative

Conservative

No response

QUALITY OF HEALTH

0%10%20%30%40%

0%

21%

41%33%

3% 2%

Thinking about health care in Los Angeles County,are you generally satisfied or dissatisfied with the quality

of the public's health care in this county?

QUALITY OF HEALTH

79%

6%

5% 8% 2%

Do you think that Los Angeles County residents would be better off or worse off with national health care reform?

Better off

Worse off

Wouldn't make much of a dif-ference

Don't know

No response

HEALTH CARE DILEMMA

11%

19%

67%

2% 2%

Which of these do you think is more important: reducing health care costs or increasing the number of Americans

who have health insurance?

Reducing health care costs

Increasing the number of Americans who have health insurance

Both equally

Neither

Don't know/No opinion

No response

HEALTH CARE & POLITICS

40%

41%

13%

2% 5%

How much confidence do you have in Barack Obama to do the right thing when it comes to dealing with health care reform?

A great deal

A fair amount

Not too much

No confidence at all

Don't know/No opin-ion

HEALTH CARE & POLITICS

59%

5%

32%

3% 2%

Who do you trust more to handle major changesin the country's health care system - the Democrats

in Congress or the Republicans in Congress?

Democrats

Republicans

Both equal

Neither

Don't know

No re-sponse

COST OF HEALTH CARE

No response

Don’t know/No opinion

No, not now but possibly in the future

No

Yes, but it would be too expensive

Yes

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

2%

10%

27%

43%

5%

14%

Does Los Angeles County have the resources to sponsor its own health care reform?

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

As many determinants of health lie outside of the health care system, how important is it that we

fund activities that improve health in these areas?

Smoke cigarettes?

Are overweight?

Have known alcoholic dependencies?

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

71%

48%

48%

24%

44%

41%

Yes, should be permitted

No, should not be permitted

Don't know/No opinion

No response

FOR MORE INFORMATION Final results will be available Summer 2010

Contact the Leavey Center to request your copy (www.lmu.edu/csla)

Questions: Brianne Gilbert, Senior Research Associate 310-338-1779; brianne.gilbert@lmu.edu