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Starting early: Child oral health program triples preventive visits
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UCLA–First 5 LA initiative aims to improve California’s low rates of child dental services. An innovative program that serves low-income and uninsured children in Los Angeles, the UCLA–First 5 LA 21st Century Dental Homes Project, has more than tripled preventive dental visits for children from birth to age 5, according to a new policy brief by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
June 29, 2016
Starting early: Child oral health program triples preventive visits
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UCLA–First 5 LA initiative aims to improve California’s low rates of child dental services. An innovative program that serves low-income and uninsured children in Los Angeles, the UCLA–First 5 LA 21st Century Dental Homes Project, has more than tripled preventive dental visits for children from birth to age 5, according to a new policy brief by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
June 29, 2016
New County Child and Teen Health Profiles are here!
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Easy-to-read, one-page fact sheets provide health statistics for smaller areas within Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as counties and regions How many young children in San Diego regularly eat fast food? Do a majority of teens in South L.A. drink soda daily? Are Fresno County parents reading enough to their tots? New, easy-to-read, one-page fact sheets from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research answer some of the most pressing questions about child and teenage health.
March 31, 2014
New County Child and Teen Health Profiles are here!
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Easy-to-read, one-page fact sheets provide health statistics for smaller areas within Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as counties and regions How many young children in San Diego regularly eat fast food? Do a majority of teens in South L.A. drink soda daily? Are Fresno County parents reading enough to their tots? New, easy-to-read, one-page fact sheets from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research answer some of the most pressing questions about child and teenage health.
March 31, 2014
High costs of raising a child challenges state's most vulnerable caregivers: grandparents
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Raising a child is not cheap. Now try raising one on a fixed income and long past the age one associates with parenthood: 65 years and older. More than 300,000 grandparents in California have primary responsibility for their grandchildren, and of this group, almost 65,000 are over the age of 65. More than 20,000 care for their grandkids without any extended family assistance at home.
June 20, 2013
High costs of raising a child challenges state's most vulnerable caregivers: grandparents
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Raising a child is not cheap. Now try raising one on a fixed income and long past the age one associates with parenthood: 65 years and older. More than 300,000 grandparents in California have primary responsibility for their grandchildren, and of this group, almost 65,000 are over the age of 65. More than 20,000 care for their grandkids without any extended family assistance at home.
June 20, 2013