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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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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.

Millions in California will lose coverage and hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost if ACA is repealed -- new studies, county fact sheets

January 17, 2017

Millions in California will lose coverage and hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost if ACA is repealed -- new studies, county fact sheets

Up to 3.7 million insured in California’s Medicaid expansion and a further 1.2 million Californians receiving subsidies to buy affordable health insurance in Covered California are at risk if current Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act are enacted, according to a set of new studies and county fact sheets from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

UCLA report on roadblocks to breast cancer care prompts legislative briefing in California

January 12, 2017

UCLA report on roadblocks to breast cancer care prompts legislative briefing in California

California State Senate will discuss barriers and possible solutions Jan. 12 In 2016, more than 26,700 California women were diagnosed with breast cancer, and an estimated 4,000 died from the disease. For women with breast cancer, the path from diagnosis to treatment to continued care is riddled with obstacles, according to a new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

January 12 legislative briefing on barriers to breast cancer care in California

January 05, 2017

January 12 legislative briefing on barriers to breast cancer care in California

'Breaking the Barriers to Breast Cancer Care: Exploring Policy Options''. One in eight women will develop breast cancer. Yet from narrow provider networks to cultural and linguistic obstacles, serious barriers exist for women seeking breast cancer treatment in California.