Are discrimination, citizenship, and immigrant status linked in the states? How does state policy affect immigrant health? How is nonresponse to citizenship and immigrant questions addressed in surveys?
Center researchers will address these immigrant-focused questions during a special session on measuring immigration status at APHA 2017. The presentations are among three dozen APHA offerings that feature Center researchers or California Health Interview Survey data. More than 12,000 public health professionals, medical providers, media and others from across the nation are expected to attend the Nov. 4-8 event in Atlanta, Georgia.
Other topics covered by Center sessions include measuring child mental health, how outreach strategies affected ACA enrollment in California, aging in communities of color, tobacco cessation and more.
Center participants include Associate Center Director Steven P. Wallace; Research Scientists Ying-Ying Meng and Kathryn Kietzman; Faculty Associate Nina Harawa; and a dozen staff members and graduate research students. Visit us at Booth #726 to pick up publications, get an AskCHIS demonstration, or pick up one of our adorable stress bears!
Find the list of our APHA sessions here.
About the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. UCLA CHPR improves the public’s health through high quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. UCLA CHPR is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.