Center in the News
Jul 13, 2024
Galileu Magazine (Brazil)
In 2021, the California Health Interview Survey, conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — Billie Eilish's hometown — also showed that the percentage of people aged 18 to 30 who reported having no sexual partner in the previous year reached 38%, the highest peak in ten years.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Ninez A. Ponce
Jul 13, 2024
Quad-Cities Times
A 2021 report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research showed enrollees reported 45 fewer hospital stays and 130 fewer emergency room visits per 1,000 beneficiaries per year.
Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Jul 11, 2024
Healthcare Finance
Nearly half of California adults, including one out of every three young adults, have either prediabetes – a precursor to Type 2 diabetes – or undiagnosed diabetes, according to a [2016] study released by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Susan H. Babey
Jul 09, 2024
MSN Money
As California struggles with providing affordable housing, a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that people who experience housing insecurity have much higher rates of psychological distress.
Also picked up by Mirage News Australia, YubaNet, and MedicalXpress.
Sean Tan,
Joelle Wolstein
Jul 09, 2024
NextShark
Mental health challenges affect Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) communities disproportionately, yet they are less likely to seek help, a recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
Jul 03, 2024
Joko Winterscheidt Presents: Climate Change – the World
California Health Interview Survey data about asthma in Bakersfield, California, gets cited by German TV personality Joko Winterscheidt, host of "The World's Most Dangerous Show," which focuses on the climate crisis.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Jul 02, 2024
AsAmNews
Data from a recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study of mental health among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans was cited in an article about mental health stigma among AANHPI groups.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
Jun 26, 2024
CalMatters
Imelda Padilla-Frausto, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, shares how the long delays in receiving payments for treating patients with workers' compensation claims for mental health care treatment have pushed some doctors to no longer accept such patients.
Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Jun 25, 2024
Flip the Media
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Feb. 2023 symposium on “Addressing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic” was cited in a report on the U.S. surgeon general declaring gun violence a public health crisis by the University of Washington's student-run Communication Leadership Program online publication.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), E.R. Brown Symposium
Jun 24, 2024
Vegworld Magazine
This initiative addresses a critical public health issue: more than 3 in 10 teens in LA are overweight or obese, with Latino children and teens having the highest overweight and obesity rates of any ethnic group. Almost half of 10 to 17-year-old Latinos in L.A. Counties are overweight or obese, according to the California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)