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‘It’s triage’: California’s next governor will face destabilizing surge in uninsured
Data about how many more Californians could become uninsured by 2030 from a report by the California Simulation of Insurance Markets, a joint project of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, is cited in this story.
Prop. 44 purports to improve healthcare. It could actually make it worse
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Director Ninez Ponce offered expert commentary in this story about the importance of community health clinics having "some measure of freedom to spend revenue on care for their high-needs populations."
Medicaid cuts stand to hit everyone (yes, even you). Here’s why
Nadereh Pourat, an associate center director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expert commentary on how cuts to Medi-Cal could affect the financial outlook for California hospitals.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's evaluation of the L.A. County Parks After Dark program that showed participants felt safe was cited in a story published in all six Southern California New Group papers, as well as the Los Angeles Post and San Fernando Sun.
Features: Nadereh Pourat, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
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.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Faculty Associate Lillian Gelberg is quoted in a story about her study of cannabis use in California. The study was published in JAMA Network Open.
This episode features Calvin Chang, Director of the UCLA Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab, talking about the importance of why the NHPI vote matters and strategies that community health workers can use to support youth to vote.
Features: Richard Calvin Chang, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab
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.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, AAPI Data Project, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Research by Ashvin Gandhi, a faculty affiliate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is cited in this report on for-profit nursing homes.
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.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research evaluation of the Los Angeles County Parks After Dark program found that the program has largely been successful.
Features: Nadereh Pourat, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Two articles about the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were included in a curated selection of stories spotlighting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices, histories and research.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, AAPI Data Project, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Telehealth use surged in California during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in October 2023. In 2022, 46.7 percent of California adults had used telehealth in the preceding year, a dramatic increase from the 12.4 percent figure in 2018.
Features: Sean Tan, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)