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Millions of Californians struggle with costs of housing, health care, latest California Health Interview Survey shows

The annual survey released by UCLA also highlights the health effects of wildfires, access to health care, and hate incidents, among hundreds of other topics

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Mental health care needs differ within LGBT community, UCLA study finds

Transgender and bisexual individuals had higher rates of thinking about suicide and of psychological distress

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More online resources needed for Californians with disabilities requiring help making critical decisions

UCLA analysis calls for providing supported decision-making materials tailored for more languages, cultures, employment sectors, and disability types

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Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds

The 2025 UCLA Health Equity Challenge finalists

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Update: New AskCHIS and AskCHIS NE training workshops June 26-27

Update: New AskCHIS and AskCHIS NE training workshops June 26-27

What proportion of children in San Bernardino County missed school because of asthma compared with children in rest of the state? What share of residents in downtown Anaheim (92805) are uninsured compared with those in Anaheim Hills (92807)? How can you get easy access to these and many other health questions?

California's Young Families: Assets and Challenges

California's Young Families: Assets and Challenges

Almost 60 percent of households with children ages 0-5 in California speak a language other than or in addition to English. This reflects the growing cultural diversity of the state, according to new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study focuses on families with children ages 0-5 and factors that influence a child's well-being and readiness for school.

Today: UCLA/Kaiser roundtable on added sugar in foods

Today: UCLA/Kaiser roundtable on added sugar in foods

Leading experts from across the country convene in Los Angeles today to discuss how to remove added sugar from foods. Leading experts from across the country will convene in Los Angeles today for the Kaiser Permanente/American Heart Association Expert Roundtable on Added/Free Sugar Consumption, organized by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Free, live-streamed AskCHIS and AskCHIS NE workshops start April 26

Free, live-streamed AskCHIS and AskCHIS NE workshops start April 26

What’s the teen smoking rate in California’s Sierra counties compared to the Bay Area? What share of residents in downtown Anaheim (92805) are uninsured compared to Anaheim Hills (92807)? How can you get easy access to these and many other health questions? The Center’s Health DATA program is offering live-streamed workshops on how to access free California Health Interview Survey data through our easy-to-use web query tools, AskCHIS© and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition©

Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios

Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios

UCLA report finds that big cuts to health care benefits would hurt the disabled, children and elderly Americans. The Trump administration’s intent to reform Medicaid includes financing changes that would save hundreds of billions in federal dollars over time, but at the expense of cutting significant health care benefits to tens of millions of the program’s most vulnerable recipients — the disabled, children and elderly Americans.

What the American Health Care Act would have meant for California

What the American Health Care Act would have meant for California

Ideas in the unsuccessful bill could be reintroduced in the future, authors say Although the American Health Care Act, or AHCA, failed to attract enough votes to advance last week, the ideas contained within the bill have long been popular with conservatives and will likely be introduced again in the future, according to the authors of a new policy brief on the proposed legislation from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

March 23 Sacramento training: How healthy is your legislative district?

March 23 Sacramento training: How healthy is your legislative district?

Learn how to use AskCHIS© and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition©, the free online health data tools of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

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February 28, 2017

Three Questions with Jack Needleman on Medicaid

Jack Needleman is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a faculty associate at the Center. He was a panelist at the Feb. 15 Grand Rounds seminar on how repeal of the ACA would affect safety net providers and moderated the Jan. 25 Paul Torrens Health Forum on planning for changes to the ACA.

Center awarded contract to evaluate California's Medi-Cal redesign program

January 31, 2017

Center awarded contract to evaluate California's Medi-Cal redesign program

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has received a five-year contract from The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to evaluate the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) Program.

What's at stake: A million California adults gained insurance in Year One of the Affordable Care Act

January 31, 2017

What's at stake: A million California adults gained insurance in Year One of the Affordable Care Act

Report on ACA impact is benchmark against which ACA repeal can be measured The number of uninsured Californians ages 64 and under fell from 5.32 million in 2012 to 4.46 million in 2014 ― a decline of 16 percent, according to The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2014 California Health Interview Survey, a new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.