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•	California Budget Cuts Fray the Long-Term Safety Net Steven P. Wallace, A. E. Benjamin, Valentine M. Villa, Nadereh Pourat This policy brief examines the likely effects of the sweeping 2009 cuts to California's safety-net programs for low-income and disabled seniors.	Policy Brief	Oct 2009

•	Trends in the Health of Older Californians: Data from the 2001, 2003 and 2005 California Health Interview Surveys Steven P. Wallace, Jennifer Lee, May Jawad Aydin California's population is getting older. By 2026 the elderly population will double to nearly 8 million.	Research Report	Nov 2008

•	Health of California's Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from CHIS 2005 and CHIS 2003 Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Y. Jenny Chia, Nicole Lordi, David Grant, Mirabai Rao This report provides a summary of the statewide findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), with highlights of changes from 2003 to 2005.	Research Report	Sep 2008

•	Women's Health in California: Health Status, Health Behaviors. Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Services Among California Women Ages 18-64 Roberta Wyn, Theresa A. Hastert, Erin Peckham This report examines important health concerns of nonelderly women (ages 18-64) in California, including their health status, selected health behaviors, health insurance coverage, usual source of care and access to health care.	Research Report	Aug 2008

•	Correlates of Self-Diagnosis of Chronic Medical and Mental Health Condition in Under Served African American and Latino Populations (Ethnicity & Disease) Chizobam Ani, Mohsen Bazargan, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Ronald M. Andersen, David W. Hindman, Richard S. Baker This study examines the correlates of self-diagnosis of chronic medical and mental health conditions in under-served minority populations.	Journal Article	Apr 2008

•	Access to Medical Treatment in the California Workers' Compensation System, 2006 Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Dylan H. Roby, Meghan E. Cameron This report was produced by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research under contract to the California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), Department of Industrial Relations, which is required to perform an annual study of access to medical treatment for injured workers.	Policy Research Report	Feb 2007

•	Less Than One-Quarter of California Adults Walk Regularly Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, Theresa A. Hastert, E. Richard Brown Less than one-fourth of California adults -- 5.5 million -- walk on a regular basis, while significantly more than that -- 6.8 ...	Policy Brief	Aug 2006

•	Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Core Decompression (The Journal of Arthroplasty) Nelson Fong SooHoo, Shail Vyas, Jesse Manunga, Husham Sharifi, Gerald F. Kominski, Jay R. Lieberman Core decompression is widely used to treat the early stages of osteonecrosis of the hip. The purpose of this analysis is to assist orthopedic surgeons in judging whether currently available data support the use of core decompression as cost-effective.	Journal Article	Aug 2006

•	Health of California's Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from the CHIS 2003 and CHIS 2001 Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Jenny Chia, John Kurata Many Californians are still struggling to reach good health, according to this report from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the country's largest population-based state health survey.	Research Report	Jun 2006

•	Economic Evaluation of Four Treatments for Low-Back Pain: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial (Medical Care) Gerald F. Kominski, Kevin C. Heslin, Hal Morgenstern, Eric L. Hurwitz, Philip I. Harber The authors compared total outpatient costs of four common treatments for low-back pain (LBP) at 18-months follow-up.	Journal Article	May 2005

•	Assessing the Burden of Disease and Injury in Los Angeles County Using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (Public Health Reports) Gerald F. Kominski, Paul A. Simon, Alex Ho, Jeff Luck, Yee Wei Lim, Jonathan E. Fielding This study was designed to assess the burden of disease and injury in the Los Angeles County population using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), a composite measure of premature mortality and disability that equates to years of healthy life lost.	Journal Article	Mar 2002

•	Disability and Access to Health and Support Services Among California's Immigrant Populations A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy	Research Report	Jan 2000

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