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"Even anticipation of discrimination can be internalized and affect one's health," said Vickie Mays, professor of health policy and management and psychology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

"It's a very clear, direct line," said Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. We were actually seeing, in real time, people losing their jobs or their incomes or having their lives disrupted in other significant ways, and seeing how all of that contributed to their stressors and resulting poor mental health.

The results show that such programs help complex patients in different ways, depending on their needs," Pourat said. "Most importantly, our findings highlight the overall success of the Whole Person Care program and its potential for improving the lives of high-risk patients.

Two-thirds of Asians, and a similar percentage of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, said they were "very worried" or "somewhat worried" about being a victim of gun violence, signifiantly higher than the 43% of Californians of all races who said the same thing, according to the report.

Accessing health care, including mental health services, became much tougher for California's Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

The report, done in collaboration with the group AAPI Data, builds on findings from UCLA's 2021 California Health Interview Survey and roughly 1,600 follow-on surveys conducted last year.

A 2021 survey conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly a quarter of immigrants reported feeling "very worried" about being a victim of gun violence, compared with roughly 13% of California adults.

Nadereh Pourat, a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health and researcher on the case, said she will indirectly measure the health of residents in Aliso Canyon's surrounding areas by identifying where residents utilized health care, which will help understand the short and long term health impacts of exposure on residents compared to those who were not exposed to the gas leak.

Most employers, particularly larger companies, typically subsidize about 80 percent of the total premium, meaning that you will go from paying about 20 percent to paying about 102 percent of the cost, once you factor in the 2 percent administrative fee, said Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Mental health recovery from the pandemic begins when equitable policies are made to address the social and economic crises of the pandemic," Padilla-Frausto said, adding that the pandemic's effects on mental health and on people's social lives and personal relationships will be felt for years to come.