Center in the News
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)
Jun 21, 2024
Medical Xpress
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.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab, Data Equity Center
Ninez A. Ponce
Jun 13, 2024
Planetizen
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.
Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation, Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Jun 12, 2024
Los Angeles Daily News
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.
Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat