Center in the News
Jul 11, 2024
Healthcare Finance
Nearly half of California adults, including one out of every three young adults, have either prediabetes – a precursor to Type 2 diabetes – or undiagnosed diabetes, according to a [2016] study released by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Susan H. Babey
Jul 09, 2024
NextShark
Mental health challenges affect Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) communities disproportionately, yet they are less likely to seek help, a recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
Jul 03, 2024
Joko Winterscheidt Presents: Climate Change – the World
California Health Interview Survey data about asthma in Bakersfield, California, gets cited by German TV personality Joko Winterscheidt, host of "The World's Most Dangerous Show," which focuses on the climate crisis.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Jul 02, 2024
AsAmNews
Data from a recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study of mental health among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans was cited in an article about mental health stigma among AANHPI groups.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
Jun 25, 2024
Flip the Media
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Feb. 2023 symposium on “Addressing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic” was cited in a report on the U.S. surgeon general declaring gun violence a public health crisis by the University of Washington's student-run Communication Leadership Program online publication.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), E.R. Brown Symposium
Jun 24, 2024
Vegworld Magazine
This initiative addresses a critical public health issue: more than 3 in 10 teens in LA are overweight or obese, with Latino children and teens having the highest overweight and obesity rates of any ethnic group. Almost half of 10 to 17-year-old Latinos in L.A. Counties are overweight or obese, according to the California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Jun 21, 2024
Medical Xpress
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, participated in a discussion about the recently announced revisions to federal guidelines for collecting race and ethnicity data.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab, Data Equity Center
Ninez A. Ponce
Jun 11, 2024
Claycord Newstalk 925
Contra Costa County has launched a free online tool that gives the public easy access to a wide array of county health data. The health atlas uses data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
May 30, 2024
Crosscurrents (public radio show)
Crosscurrents host Hana Baba and Helen H. Hsu, bi-cultural, bi-lingual clinical psychologist founder of Hella Mental Health and outreach director at Stanford University, discussed a UCLA CHPR report about the importance of culturally competent mental health for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
May 24, 2024
Daily Mail
Despite the positive attachment to sex, a 2021 UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 38 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 30 reported they hadn't had any sexual partners in the previous year.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Ninez A. Ponce