Center in the News List
May 07, 2024
Data from the California Health Interview Survey showed that 22% of adults in San Luis Obispo County were diagnosed with asthma from 2019–2021.
May 03, 2024
The work of Yusuke Tsugawa, a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is cited for his research into how female doctors may communicate better with their female patients.
May 01, 2024
A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study about disparities in LGBTQ+ health care is cited as important reading in the promotion of an upcoming webinar about ways to improve health care for the LGBTQ+ community.
May 01, 2024
1 in 4 California adolescents ages 15–17 and nearly 1 in 3 Californians ages 18–24 said they had suicidal thoughts at least once in their lifetime.
Apr 30, 2024
This story which appeared on the University of California Newsroom highlights the work of Dr. May Sudhinaraset, associate professor of community health sciences and UCLA CHPR faculty associate. Sudhinaraset and her colleagues launched the first study to collect national data on the sexual and reproductive health care experiences of Asian immigrant women.
Apr 28, 2024
Los Angeles Times' columnist Steve Lopez talks with Ashvin Gandhi, a professor and faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about how nursing home companies sometimes use “tunneling” practices to obscure true profitability.
Apr 25, 2024
Nearly half of California youths from the ages of 12 to 17 report having recently struggled with mental health issues, with nearly a third experiencing serious psychological distress, according to a 2021 study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Also published on KFF Health News.
Apr 22, 2024
A new study by Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that patients who have a female doctor are less likely to die in the days after being admitted to the hospital than patients who have a male doctor.
Apr 17, 2024
Daniel Eisenberg, director of the mental health program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is quoted about reasons to be skeptical that social prescriptions will become widely adopted in the United States because of the traditional slow pace of chance in the U.S. health care system.
Apr 16, 2024
Nourish California estimates there are 2.7 million people eligible for CalFresh who do not receive any benefits. If the state approved the benefits for the 2.7 million, it would receive an extra $3.5 billion in CalFresh money from the federal government yearly.
California has a significant food insecurity problem, with UCLA's Center for Health Policy and Research finding 3.4 million residents went hungry in 2021, and 39 percent of adults could not afford enough food for themselves.