public health

At a UCLA Luskin Lecture Series event, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz explored the roots and consequences of America’s “gun love.”

Solutions to lower health risks for students and faculty include stretch breaks and more open classrooms.

Research brief: The Medicaid expansions have improved health-related financial risk protection for low-income adults, which was one of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act.

The foundation of the collaboration has been to empower people in local communities to drive the solutions.

The longtime professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of cancer Jan. 5.

The results also show key findings in non-cigarette tobacco use, mental health and well-being.

The 33rd edition of the open-streets event celebrates UCLA’s Centennial with activities that brought campus highlights downtown.

The chair is named in honor of Dr. Paul Torrens, who has been on the school’s faculty since 1972.

UCLA students partnered with private tech company on project that explored public health outcomes in L.A. and Long Beach port communities.

In 47 countries, the minimum legal age for employment is below 15, despite evidence that work at an early age is associated with negative effects on health and education.

The UCLA study highlights the importance of understanding risks near other natural gas storage facilities.

Center will bring together academic researchers, students and health care executives and practitioners to explore critical issues in the management of health care organizations.

Study, which is the first to demonstrate a causal link, shows the connection is strongest in states with least restrictive gun laws.

Research brief: UCLA and UC Irvine researchers examined data on collisions, road hazards and weather from the California Highway Patrol and the popular traffic app.

Guidance on the current measles outbreak from UCLA and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

The researchers examined health and population data from more than 180,000 children served by the WIC program in Los Angeles County.

UCLA Extension’s Ochan Otim grew up in Uganda, which since its two-decade civil war has seen many people driven to drinking to alleviate their suffering.

Toxic pesticides are widely used in California agriculture to control soil pests for strawberry, almond, citrus and other high-value crops.

Nine in 10 lack insurance.

Study is the first to analyze public health impact of the emerging personal transportation option.

The study might actually underestimate the country’s homicide rate because many murders may be unreported or attributed to other causes of death.

En 2010 y 2011, 8,943 hombres de 15 a 50 años de edad en Chihuahua fueron asesinados: tres veces el número de muertes entre las tropas de los Estados Unidos en Irak desde 2003 y 2006.

The paper recommends nearly a dozen policy strategies aimed at ensuring adequate staffing and training to serve the growing number of elderly people in the state.

“Making pre-primary education available at no cost is a critical element in efforts to reduce educational and economic inequalities,” said co-author Alison Earle.

A report by UCLA, UC Berkeley and California Food Policy Advocates found that the state could lose up to $1.67 billion in federal benefits.