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Single-payer healthcare in California is possible. An economic and political thicket stands in the way
A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research report on a unified financing model for healthcare in California examined the role of health plans, provider payments, and benefits, and how they could affect access, quality, and equity.
Newsom vowed to transform kids' mental health. Many California schools are waiting
Data from the California Health Interview Survey showing how many California youth weren't receiving needed mental healthcare was used in this news story to illustrate the urgent mental health crisis facing the state. Syndicated in the Redding Record Searchlight (paywall).
2.2M Californians will lose health insurance by 2030, UC Berkeley and UCLA report finds
The story features a report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that estimates the number of uninsured people living in the state will reach 4.6 million by 2030.
The story cited childcare 2023 data from a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study which estimated that nearly half of young children in the state do not receive childcare on a regular basis (10 or more hours per week).
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, participated in a discussion about the recently announced revisions to federal guidelines for collecting race and ethnicity data.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Data Equity Center, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab
Story on Planetizen about the Los Angeles County Parks After Dark program cites a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research evaluation of the program's outcomes and benefits.
Features: Nadereh Pourat, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
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