Data Briefs
Invisible Patients: How Improved Homelessness Coding Revealed Who Is Missing from California's Health Data
This data brief shows how a change in hospital coding made it possible to identify unhoused patients missing from county asthma, COPD, heart attack, and heat illness data.
Tracking the Impact of Heat on Unhoused Californians
Applying the improved coding to heat-related illness, this data brief shows how extreme heat is affecting California’s unhoused population—and who is most impacted.
Extreme Heat Days Hit Unhoused Californians Hardest
This data brief highlights the HEAT-UP project, which links local heat data with hospital records to show how extreme heat affects unhoused Californians.
