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Flu shot rates among California adults vary by race and ethnicity
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The immunization picture is improving statewide, say UCLA researchers, but it's still low ​More than 60 percent of all adults in California fail to get an annual flu shot, according to a new journal article by UCLA researchers that also found wide disparity in flu immunization rates among Asian subgroups.
July 27, 2016
Flu shot rates among California adults vary by race and ethnicity
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The immunization picture is improving statewide, say UCLA researchers, but it's still low ​More than 60 percent of all adults in California fail to get an annual flu shot, according to a new journal article by UCLA researchers that also found wide disparity in flu immunization rates among Asian subgroups.
July 27, 2016
Out of reach? Rural elders have high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease
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Despite living in the countryside, where open space is plentiful and there is often significant agricultural production, California's more than half a million rural elders are far more likely to be overweight or obese, physically inactive and food insecure than their suburban counterparts, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
June 14, 2011
Out of reach? Rural elders have high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease
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Despite living in the countryside, where open space is plentiful and there is often significant agricultural production, California's more than half a million rural elders are far more likely to be overweight or obese, physically inactive and food insecure than their suburban counterparts, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
June 14, 2011
Aging alone: Older lesbians, gays have higher rates of chronic disease, mental distress, isolation
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Members of California's aging lesbian, gay and bisexual population are more likely to suffer from certain chronic conditions, even as they wrestle with the challenges of living alone in far higher numbers than the heterosexual population, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
March 29, 2011
Aging alone: Older lesbians, gays have higher rates of chronic disease, mental distress, isolation
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Members of California's aging lesbian, gay and bisexual population are more likely to suffer from certain chronic conditions, even as they wrestle with the challenges of living alone in far higher numbers than the heterosexual population, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
March 29, 2011