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An international study led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researcher Prof. James Macinko has determined that the United States is far from the most effective healthcare provider for those 50 and older among 23 countries, ranging from Austria to the United States.
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Newly released data from the largest statewide survey, published by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provide insights on voting patterns, mental, emotional and environmental health.
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Fielding School professors David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu have found that California's farmworkers are among the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic because of their low wages and limited health insurance coverage.
Source: UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture Read Full ArticleIn an opinion piece published in The Hill, distinguished professor of health policy and management Dr. Jonathan Fielding shares his perspective on the questions of whether the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to postponements of elective surgery or forgoing a trip to the ER.
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Health care leaders have new, improved tools to identify children at the greatest risk of preventable deaths, based on surveys of more than 67 countries around the world by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Source: Public Library of Science (PLOS) Read Full ArticleThe UCLA Fielding School of Public Health will host the second annual “Healthcare Management Case Competition,” pitting teams of graduate students against each other to solve a real health care challenge presented by UCLA Health, the premier sponsor.
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health led-research finds women, particularly US-born Black women, in states with restrictive reproductive rights policies deliver more low birth weight babies and experience greater health inequities.
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The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health welcomes nine new faculty members, in four different academic departments.
Read Full ArticleThe UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UC Speaks Up (a public health violence prevention initiative of the University of California) will co-host an event focusing on sexual violence awareness and prevention among college communities.
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A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researcher’s work on two related research projects published in the past month suggests that in both the United States and in Europe, sustained transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 became established only after separate introductions of the virus that went undetected.
Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science Nature Research Read Full ArticleFielding School’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research sponsoring annual E.R. Brown Symposium: Healing a Fractured Society: Health Care as a Right.
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From 2014 to 2018, the number of California adults who reported that they had experienced serious psychological distress in any given year increased by 42%, according to a policy brief published by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
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