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Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 21% of California dentists saw Medi-Cal patients of all ages, according to data from 2019 to 2021. Also published on California Health Line.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Nadereh Pourat
Sacramento Bee

Language access is a top concern for Asian communities. What AAPI leaders say can be done

Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was a featured speaker at the Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander health equity roundtable, which included representatives from the state AAPI Caucus and Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, as well as federal and state agencies and community-based organizations based throughout California.
Ninez A. Ponce
Daily Nation (Kenya)

Cracking under pressure: The mental health toll on Kenya's future leaders

Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, a UCLA professor of health policy and management and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's mental health program, was cited in this story about mental health among college-going adults in Kenya. (Paywall)
Daniel Eisenberg
Los Angeles Daily News

UCLA researchers embark on next chapter of Aliso Canyon health study

Over the next six months, a UCLA team will continue collecting a massive amount of data that will help dozens of scientists and researchers investigate how residents have been impacted by the Aliso Canyon gas leak near Porter Ranch that went on for four months, forcing thousands of families to evacuate their homes.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Capital & Main

Lunch at the Library Feeds Needy California Students Despite Slashed Budget

Food insecurity is limited or inconsistent access to healthy food, according to UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Meteoweb (Italy)

California: One in Five Suffers Mental Illness Due to Extreme Weather

An Italian news website story about how climate change affected mental health, cited a new study that used data from the California Health Interview Survey. (No link available.)
Madamenoir

Mýa Reveals She’s Been Celibate For 7 Years And It Changed Her Life

A story about singer Mýa’s choice to abstain from sex for seven year cites data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Lookout Santa Cruz

New Dominican Hospital residency program aims to speed up local health care

In Santa Cruz County in 2022, 21.4% of people reported in a California Health Interview Survey that they had delayed medical care or didn’t receive the care they needed, compared to the statewide average of 16.5%.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Ninez A. Ponce
MB News (Manhattan Beach)

How's Your Health, Manhattan Beach?

The Beach Cities Health District, in its triannual survey of people's health in the L.A. County beach cities, includes indicators from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's California Health Interview Survey, among others.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Mirage News (Australia)

California Adults in Long-Term Care Struggle with Resource Access

Whether because of age or disability, California adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities reported their health as worse overall and experience higher rates of serious psychological distress, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Also picked up by MSN, Sierra Sun Times, Medical Xpress, and Health Medicine Network.
Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS), California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Kathryn G. Kietzman, Lei Chen