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Twenty children were killed and six adults and a subset of families have been working over 10 years to get some accountability by the manufacturer,” said Michael Rodriguez, professor at UCLA School of Public Health. “Guns, even though they're a consumer product, are not monitored or regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In fact, in 2005 Congress provided them immunity from being liable from any civil suits.

Roughly 108,000 Medi-Cal patients were enrolled in county pilots and 15,000 in managed care pilots during a two-year period, according to an early analysis by UCLA researchers. As a result of the success, federal officials granted a waiver allowing CalAIM to move forward for the next five years. 

Clinical and public health professionals have been gearing up to take care of the growing aging population, yet not much is known on how best to support the needs of older adults,” Riti Shimkhada, PhD, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told Healio.

A recent UCLA health policy research brief found that 94 percent of Californians have some form of health coverage as of 2021.

Because data on Asian Americans remain aggregated, knowledge about FilAm issues goes widely unnoticed. At a surface level, Asian Americans appear healthier than Whites, lending credence that Asian Americans can be deemphasized in research, funding, and medical attention or interventions.

The MolinaCares Accord ("MolinaCares"), in collaboration with Molina Healthcare of California ("Molina"), today announced a $125,000 grant to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) to engage a diverse group of UCLA graduate students in developing solutions to California’s most pressing health equity concerns through the Health Equity Challenge. This grant is the latest partnership in the $1.6 million MolinaCares California Equity and Accessibility Initiative, launched in 2021 to advance health equity throughout the state.

If the California Assembly bill promising government-run health insurance coverage for all becomes law, it would radically change the pecking order for health care workers, the companies that employ them and the patients they serve, according to health policy expert Jack Needleman. Primary care physicians would command better pay, for instance, while specialists would likely see the so-called single-payer system created by the proposed law push back on their rates, said Needleman, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at University of California, Los Angeles.

Findings from the 2020 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) suggest that among Asian adults, unfair treatment due to race or ethnicity played a bigger role in food insecurity than for the overall California population.

Among Asians, those reporting unfair treatment because of race or ethnicity experienced food insecurity at 1.5 times the rate than those not treated unfairly, according to CHIS, which is conducted by UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research and is the country’s largest statewide health survey. The CHIS is done online or by phone in several Asian languages: Chinese

Pilot efforts to improve care coordination for California Medi-Cal beneficiaries with historically poor health outcomes, including many individuals with serious mental illness, appear to have weathered the initial challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. A report released this month by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research states that by the end of 2020, specialty and primary care services for these populations had returned to pre-pandemic levels.

There are people who practice specialized medicine who are often discouraged by the fees that Medi-Cal pays from locating in places where Medi-Cal patients live or taking Medi-Cal patients on if they can avoid them,” Needleman said. “By raising the payments for lower income people, for those who historically have been...on Medi-Cal or those who've been uninsured, you create a more attractive environment for some people to go practice where they otherwise wouldn't have."