California’s homelessness crisis is unprecedented. In early 2020, more than 160,000 people experienced homelessness on any given day, representing a 40% increase since 2015. The health effects on individuals experiencing housing insecurity have been profound, including outbreaks of hepatitis A and typhus in communities experiencing homelessness, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further impacted our health system, broader community, and economy, and exposed how public health impacts housing and homelessness.
Dr. Carol Mangione, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, an honor given to no more than 70 physicians per year.
Two new studies, both co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, explore the link between citizenship status and access to health care among Latino and Asian immigrants in California.
New research released today by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for H
A team co-led by Dr.
For Briana Moss, a Type 1 diabetic, making sure she has the health coverage she needs to live is a delicate dance.
She and her partner are putting off marriage because even with his workplace-based insurance, the co-payments for her frequent doctor visits would be more than they could afford.
And while Moss says she’d like to work full time, she keeps her hours to a minimum so she can continue to qualify for Medicaid, the government program that helps her pay for the insulin she must take every day.
When Grant Cho entered UCLA as an undergraduate, he was on the pre-med track. But in Cho’s second year, a friend introduced him to Public Health Initiative: Leaders of Tomorrow (PILOT), a student-run organization for UCLA undergraduates interested in learning about public health. “That got me to realize that a health career didn’t have to involve one-on-one clinical interventions,” Cho says. “I found out UCLA had a public health minor, and quickly realized this was the field for me.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed two rules that would federally ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, a move aimed at reducing tobacco-related disease and death.
Abortion rates in the United States have been falling steadily for decades, long before restrictive statutes began to make the procedure difficult to obtain in some areas. Experts say access to better birth control is one of the main reasons.
Abortions in the U.S. peaked in 1981, at a rate of 29.3 per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then, the number has fallen by three-fifths. In 2019, the last year for which numbers are available, the rate was 11.4.
KNX-AM interviewed Dr. Jack Needleman, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the impact of labor costs on the healthcare system for the “In Depth” program.