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Survey: 32% of Californians won't take COVID vaccine boosters

The survey, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that California adults who have not completed the primary vaccine series against COVID-19 did not do so for several reasons: 48% think a vaccine for COVID is unnecessary, 45% worried about side effects, and 44% think the vaccine was developed too quickly.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
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92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. County parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
UCLA Newsroom

92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. county parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
19th News

California's largest school district is spending millions to protect kids from climate change

Schools without green coverage tend to be in neighborhoods that lack shade, and those communities are disproportionately home to people of color. A peer-reviewed study by UCLA public health researchers published in the journal Environment International in March found that two-thirds of Los Angeles County's Black and Latinx populations live in places with scant green coverage and lower average life expectancies.

Michael Jerrett
JBHE

Biracial Black Adults Found to have more mental health needs than monoracial adults

A new study from the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles finds that adults who identify as Black and at least one other race are more likely to need mental health services than those who identify only as Black.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
UCLA Newsroom

Program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex health needs reduced emergency visits, hospitlizations

A California program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospital stays among its enrollees, according to an evaluation published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
My Science

Program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex health needs reduced emergency visits, hospitalizations

A California program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospital stays among its enrollees, according to an evaluation published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat
Indian Education Diary

University Of California, Los Angeles Research Shows Less Parent-Child Interaction During COVID-19

Our findings suggest that the pandemic stole precious time from parents to interact with their young children,” said Sean Tan, senior public administration analyst at the center and co-author of the study.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Sean Tan
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Covina-Valley Unified offer free breakfast, lunch to San Gabriel Valley students

Nearly 5 million adults and 2 million children across California live in low-income households affected by food insecurity, according to a California Health Interview Survey conducted by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
WHYY NPR

Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research held a symposium in February titled "Addressing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic. Experts at the symposium took an approach reminiscent of how health officials approach epidemics of disease. They discussed "expanding our lens beyond prosecuting gun crime to prevention, harm reduction and even culture-shifting.

E.R. Brown Symposium