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.
AS THE U.S. GRAPPLES with how to achieve universal access to quality primary health care, a Fielding School faculty member who has studied the experience of Brazil suggests there is much to be learned from Latin America’s largest country.
Dr. Katherine Chen, a physician earning her doctorate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has received the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 “Mack Lipkin, Sr. Award” for best scientific presentation by a trainee for her work on the impact of housing costs on renter’s health.
The magnitude of the country’s loss is nearly impossible to grasp.
More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crashes or on battlefields in all of the country’s wars combined.
Experts say deaths were all but inevitable from a new virus of such severity and transmissibility. Yet, one million dead is a stunning toll, even for a country the size of the United States, and the true number is almost certainly higher because of undercounting.
Discrepancies in data can delay care, resources and awareness, said Dr. Vickie Mays of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Has the United States surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19?
It depends whom you ask.
Dr. Beth Glenn is a professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Co-Director for Community Outreach and Engagement in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, and Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. The focus of her work is on conducting scientifically rigorous, yet pragmatic, research to design, implement and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer and other chronic diseases.
Dr. Gidwani is a health economist whose research evaluates both the costs and health outcomes associated with healthcare services. Her work focuses on the impact of benefit design on quality of care and patient financial burden. She has been Principal Investigator on several grants aimed at studying the value of cancer care and/or end-of-life care. Dr. Gidwani uses a variety of methods to study the costs and outcomes associated with health service utilization, including techniques for causal inference from observational data and decision analysis. Dr.
Education
- DrPH, Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA