Which Mexican immigrants in the U.S. without legal authorization get deported most frequently? Are there social or demographic characteristics that tend to predict removal? Dr.

In L.A. County, 256 homeless people died of COVID-related causes in a 22-month period — a rate more than twice that seen in the general population

People experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles who contract COVID are 2.35 times more likely to die than someone in the general population, according to new study by UCLA, USC, and Los Angeles County.

"Why do many Japanese supermarkets not accept food stamps? Food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or CalFresh in California, assist people with lower monthly incomes in purchasing food using government funds. 'The Japanese and Japanese American people who have EBT want to buy Japanese products,' said Setsuko Nakama, executive director of Little Tokyo Nutrition Services. EBT, short for Electronic Benefits Transfer, is the system that processes food stamps.

A new UCLA study found that since COVID-19 emerged, language barriers have prevented Latino and Asian patients in Los Angeles from making full use of telehealth services.

The research also revealed that Black and white patients had greater ease with video visits — and that some older patients and those with limited access to technology, particularly Latinos, relied on family members to help them access telehealth services.

"About a week before her son died, Heidi Locatell begged him not to go back to living on the streets. Luke, 30, had been homeless on and off since around 2015 and struggled with addiction to meth. He had been residing in a sober living facility for nearly eight months but returned to being unhoused on Aug. 31 and relapsed. “He liked the freedom of nobody telling him what to do,” Locatell said.

The UCLA FSPH Center for Health Policy Research, MolinaCares, and California Health Care Foundation have announced 14 finalists in the 2023 Health Equity Challenge. The competition is an opportunity for UCLA graduate students to identify a health equity issue across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties, create a proposal to address it, and work with a community-based organization to implement their project.

The AAPI Data Project at UC Riverside and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) released a comprehensive report​ today revealing economic hardships, negative health outcomes and a rise in hate incidents experienced by Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

People experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles who contract COVID are 2.35 times more likely to die than someone in the general population, according to new study by UCLA, USC, and Los Angeles County.

The study, published in JAMA Network Open this month, suggests that homelessness is a unique risk factor for COVID-related deaths and that the likely cause is the vulnerability brought on by accelerated aging among the homeless, the researchers said.

Among adults with disabilities and older adults in California who need assistance caring for themselves and completing routine daily tasks, 40% receive no help at all or get only limited help, according to research by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr. Ninez Ponce.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of access to healthcare, and this access is obtainable when a community has access to health insurance, according to work by UCLA researchers that explores insurance coverage in California's Salvadoran-American community.

The report - "Uninsured Salvadorans in California," and published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture - was released Sept. 15; the most important finding is that immigrant Salvadorans are three times more likely to be uninsured, compared to U.S.-born Salvadoran-Americans.