A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has found women who work in the paid labor force in early adulthood and middle age may have slower memory decline later in life than women who do not work for pay.
UCLA researchers have found that that California's farmworkers are among the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic because of their low wages and limited health insurance coverage.
California employs an estimated 800,000 farm workers, who earn an average annual income of less than $18,000. Due to the nature of their work, farm workers labor shoulder to shoulder, often without any personal protective equipment (PPE). If a farm worker becomes infected with COVID-19, the cost of a course of remdesivir treatment ($3,120) amounts to more than two whole months’ income for them.
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UCLA researchers have found that non-citizen Latino workers in California are among the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic because of their concentration in essential employment, including the state’s agricultural industry.
Bringing together leaders from universities in California, China, Singapore and Australia, UCLA and the the Association of Pacific Rim Universities are co-hosting an online seminar focused on crisis management and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event, “Perspectives of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiology, Prevention and Control in Pacific Rim Region,” (which will begin at 5 pm PDT Tuesday, Sept. 29), has been organized in coordination with Peking University, National University of Singapore, and University of Sydney, and will include presenters from all four universities, addressing:
UCLA researchers have found that over the three months from May 11 to August 11, 2020, there was a nearly five-fold increase in death rates in all three groups defined as Latinos of "working age": young adult, early middle age, and late middle age.
A team led by Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the
A study published today by UCLA researchers found that Latino and Black residents of Los Angeles County and New York City are roughly twice as likely as white residents to die from COVID-19. The research also revealed that high-poverty neighborhoods in both regions have the highest rates of COVID-19 cases and COVID-19–related deaths.
Researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have found that pregnant women exposed to high levels of ultrafine particles from jet airplane exhaust are 14% more likely to have a preterm birth than those exposed to lower levels.
The researchers examined exposure among women living near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), in an area that includes neighborhoods in Los Angeles, El Segundo, Hawthorne, Inglewood and other communities inland from the airport.
As of July 8, 2020, a total of 6,519 people in California had died due to COVID-19 associated conditions. These deaths did not occur randomly in the state’s population. Extended exposure to coronavirus, less access to health insurance and doctor’s visits, and less access to care result in more comorbidities.