Mar 12, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate May Sudhinaraset, who is a professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in this column about immigrants and health care. “We know that undocumented (people) are much more likely to be uninsured compared to their documented peers, and are also more likely to delay care when they need it.”
Mar 12, 2025
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi found that frequent nursing home staff testing was especially beneficial for preventing COVID cases and deaths in the era before vaccines became available.
Mar 09, 2025
Susan H. Babey, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expertise in this article about how in response to harsher rhetoric against immigrants, there was a decrease in use of public programs due to fear of disrupting their immigration status and immigrants were more likely to delay medical care or prescription refills.
Mar 06, 2025
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, discussed his recent policy brief that focused on how President Trump's executive order overturning birthright citizenship creates fear among immigrants.
Feb 27, 2025
Ninez Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and principal investigator of the center's California Health Interview Survey, provides insight into some of the key findings from the most recent edition. “Measurement is what detects where the needs are, and then policies can help shape programs,” Ponce said.
Feb 27, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Mark A. Peterson said of possible Medicaid cuts: "If they were to try to fill in, they either have to raise taxes significantly, which is not likely to happen, or they would have to cut, say, their next major spending category, which is also not likely. And even very wealthy states, like California, for instance, have been going through their own budget struggles. So, it's not as though they're sitting on a pile of money that's ready to reallocate. There would be extremely serious budgetary consequences."
Feb 24, 2025
Data from the California Health Interview Survey was used in compiling the 2025-2028 Beach Cities Health District Community Health Report, which examined health and well-being in the cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach.
Feb 21, 2025
This story cited 2021 California Health Interview Survey data showing that that patients with limited English proficiency were less likely to report telehealth use and more likely to rate video visit experience as worse than in-person appointments.
Feb 18, 2025
This story cites 2019 California Health Interview Survey data about differences between girls' and boys' experiences with serious psychological distress.
Feb 18, 2025
30% of Asian Americans in California reported having difficulty accessing health services, according to California Health Interview Survey data used in a 2024 report by AAPI Data and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.