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Asian elders are less happy, get less support than elders of other races, study shows

“We know it’s a common misconception that Asians are doing better than other racial groups,” Riti Shimkhada, the study’s lead researcher and a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told NBC Asian America. “There’s much that we don’t know about our older adults, and these results show they aren’t doing as well as people may perceive."

Riti Shimkhada
The Los Angeles Times

Op-Ed: Cuts to COVID relief programs are coming. Once again Latinos will bear the brunt of the effect

Even without the cuts to COVID spending by the government, it is important to determine what policy responses are needed federally and in California to address the health inequities Latinos and other people of color face, all of which were made worse by the pandemic. We need to prevent these injustices from reoccurring should there be a new COVID-19 surge, or in the inevitable case of a new pandemic.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante
LifeHacker

All the Health Insurance Words You Need to Know But Were Too Embarrassed to Ask About

Dr. Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is all about healthcare literacy, and he told Lifehacker why consumers need to know this stuff. Kominski not only studies the barriers to healthcare access in the country, but has experienced them firsthand. He explained that, like many people, he found one of his existing prescriptions wasn’t covered without a prior authorization when he switched to a new insurance provider. His new insurer required him to try other medications and demonstrate that they weren’t working before they would consider covering the one

Gerald F. Kominski
Kaiser Family Foundation

California Efforts to Address Behavioral Health and SDOH: A Look at Whole Person Care Pilots

As CalAIM launches, it is useful to take a closer look at the WPC pilot program and what has been learned to date from its implementation. This brief draws heavily on findings from the interim evaluation, which assessed WPC infrastructure development and implementation and analyzed whether WPC led to “better care and better health” within the first three years. In this brief, we explore key questions involving the WPC pilots, which may provide insights for other states pursuing or contemplating similar strategies for identifying and addressing the medical and non-medical or social needs of

Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation
HealthDay

Good End-of-Life Care Out of Reach for Many Black Nursing Home Residents

"You're more likely to see in racial and ethnic minorities that the kind of insurers near the end of their life are going to be a function of the type of employment and resources they had earlier in their life,"" Mays said. Examples include past employment that paid hourly wages and didn't offer benefits, or not being able to buy long-term care insurance.

""At the end of their lives and when they are utilizing these care facilities, those earlier inequities get played out again later in what it is that they have access to,"" Mays explained.

Vickie Mays
Bay Area Reporter

LGBTQ Agenda: Gallup poll shows uptick in people identifying as LGBT

One California institution, on the other hand, has been asking such questions in the California Health Interview Survey, an ongoing effort interviewing 20,000 Californians each year about several dozen topics from internet use and difficulty finding health insurance to mental health care and asthma. The CHIS is conducted by the Center for Health Policy Research at UCLA, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Care Services. One such study titled ""Gaps in Health Care Access and Health Insurance Among LGBT Populations in California"" found

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Spectrum News

200 UCLA Health volunteers hope to bring access to health care in LA

It is estimated that about 3.2 million Californians will be uninsured this year, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center.

California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)
USA Today

Soccer star Katie Meyer felt "stress to be perfect" before death. Many student-athletes relate

The rate of depression and anxiety has doubled among college students over the past decade, according to a Healthy Minds Study conducted in part by Daniel Eisenberg, Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA.

Daniel Eisenberg
NBC LX

4 Undeniable Signs the US Health Care System Is Broken

Americans spend more on health care than any other people — about one-sixth of our nation’s GDP. According to Thomas Rice, Ph.D., at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, our health care expenses are double that of other wealthy nations, like Germany, Japan and the U.K.

“We spend over $4 trillion in the United States each year on health care. It's a large chunk of the entire world spending on health care, around 40%. But if you look at it per person, we spend about $12,500 per person per year on health care,"" he told NBCLX.

Thomas Rice