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.
California’s Whole Person Care pilot program, launched in 2016 to address the multiple health needs of some of the state’s highest-risk Medi-Cal patients, helped improve coordination of care and reduced Medi-Cal costs, according to a report published today by the UCLA FSPH Center for Health Policy Research.
Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research suggests.
Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used and the cutoff applied to define "high risk," according to a new study from UCLA. The study appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Current incidence rates indicate that about one in eight women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during her life. The risk increases with age.
Less than two months into the new year, there have already been more than 60 mass shootings in the United States and 5,103 people killed by gun violence, including the January shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay.
UCLA Fielding graduate students and doctoral candidates will showcase their posters highlighting recent research or practice projects on a variety of public health topics during the school's first Research, Innovation & Impact Day.
Business shutdowns and financial challenges. School and day care closures and lack of child care. Quarantine and household conflict. The pandemic’s stay-at-home orders intended to keep people safe from COVID-19, but did it have an adverse effect on their mental health?
UCLA Fielding's MPH | HP program invites prospective students to join an informational Q&A session.
UCLA Fielding's Health Policy and Management Alumni Association’s signature event, Leaders of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow, honors outstanding leaders in healthcare and raises funds to support student scholarships, as well as for programs and services that support students and the graduate network.
CLIMATE CHANGE is already jeopardizing health and well-being in the U.S. and abroad, and is projected to become a greater public health threat in the decades to come. The World Health Organization has outlined some of the key ways in which climate change affects health. As the examples in this issue demonstrate, Fielding School faculty, students and alumni are leading efforts to protect populations against this developing crisis.