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Someone's housing situation has consequential effects on their overall health and well-being," UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Public Administration Analyst Sean Tan said Thursday during a presentation of the research findings.
Ninez Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, joined leaders from the government, health, business and other sectors at a White House forum on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders hosted by the White House on May 3.
The disputes that go public are the tip of the iceberg," said Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "Companies tend to only make these disagreements public if they're trying to put pressure on insurance companies," he added. "The fact that Carbon is a startup is maybe why they're in this position," he said."Their relative power, there's not symmetry here in terms of power in the two sides negotiating.
The study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that about 1 in 7 veterans with a firearm at home in California had thought about suicide.
About a third of Californians live in areas where there is a shortage of primary care providers, according to the California Healthcare Foundation. The shortage is particularly acute in rural areas and in the rapidly growing Inland Empire, which has only about 40 primary care physicians per 100,000 people. For patients, a short supply of doctors can mean months-long waits for appointments and more trips to urgent care for chronic conditions. And for in-demand providers, burnout looms. We’ll learn about plans to address the shortage and hear about your experiences finding a primary care
Unsafe firearm storage is common among California veterans with a history of suicidal ideation, according to a study published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Nadereh Pourat with UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research talks about the Whole Person Care Pilot program.
The findings of our study shed light on a powerful machine learning algorithm that enables us to identify individuals who would benefit the most from strict blood pressure control, which can be a crucial element in achieving the precision medicine," said senior author Yusuke Tsugawa, an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and of health policy and management at the Fielding School in a statement about the study.
The findings of our study shed light on a powerful machine learning algorithm that enables us to identify individuals who would benefit the most from strict blood pressure control, which can be a crucial element in achieving the precision medicine," said senior author Yusuke Tsugawa, an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and of health policy and management at the Fielding School in a statement about the study.
Housing issues are public health issues because of how they affect people's health and well-being," said Sean Tan, a senior public administration analyst at UCLA CHPR. "People struggling to pay for housing have been shown to cut back on health care and basic necessities, leading to overall poorer health.