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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).
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
Two articles about the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were included in a curated selection of stories spotlighting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices, histories and research.
Features: Ninez A. Ponce, AAPI Data Project, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Telehealth use surged in California during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in October 2023. In 2022, 46.7 percent of California adults had used telehealth in the preceding year, a dramatic increase from the 12.4 percent figure in 2018.
Features: Sean Tan, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
In this Q&A, Imelda Padilla-Frausto shares her "non-traditional" journey from studying engineering and computer science at community college in central New Mexico to research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Features: D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Mental Health Program
Gerald Kominski helps a report factcheck Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin's claims that she "wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.” Syndicated on Politifact, Austin American Statesman, among others.
A 2021 report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research showed enrollees [in California's Whole Person Care program] reported 45 fewer hospital stays and 130 fewer emergency room visits for every 1,000 beneficiaries compared to similar-profile Medicaid beneficiaries who did not participate in the program.
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Features: Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation
Ninez Ponce said in that in addition to being an excellent researcher, Ying-Ying Meng supported not just coworkers but mentees in becoming public health scholars. Yu Yu added that Meng was not only an advisor and mentor to her but also an inspiration.
Features: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program
A new study about that examined health disparities among lesbian and bisexual women compared to heterosexual women published in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites a UCLA CHPR study.
Features: Joelle Wolstein, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), LGBTQ Health
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital used data from the California Health Interview Survey to study the digital divide affects the virtual delivery of health care.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)