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Ninez Ponce and colleagues at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research received $161,000 for a study to address the gap in data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities through the construction of a new measure to better indicate the needs of the state's NHPI population.

Our study has shed light on the fact that Black men experience a higher death rate after elective surgery than other subgroups of race and sex. Further research is needed to understand better the factors contributing to this observation, and to inform efforts to develop interventions that could effectively eliminate such disparity," Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, the senior author of the study and associate professor of medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, said in an email.

The study, which was conducted by researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, AAPI Data and researchers at UC Riverside, aimed to dig deeper into the needs and experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander populations.

These grants build on AAPI Data's initial work to expand the data and research capacity on Asian American and NHPI needs and our collaboration with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Health Interview Survey.

Eliminating the premiums is likely to create more stable coverage for families over time, regardless of whether their income inches up or down," said Nadereh Pourat, associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A new study UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that Newsom's stay-at-home orders, affecting businesses, child care centers and school, created financial hardships that led to psychological distress and a sharp increase in turmoil and conflict, including domestic violence.

"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.