public health

Dr. Alice Kuo and Dr. Angelica Zen argue that gun safety is a relevant issue for children's doctors and, if discussed in appointments, could reduce the number of accidents and deaths involving children.

A policy report by the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability finds that Proposition 84 achieved some, but not all, of its ambitious goals.

A new study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic that has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

The initiative will train a new generation to help achieve a set of ambitious U.N.-approved goals to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance education and make cities more sustainable.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

Professor Roshan Bastani of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is the director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Prevention Research.

The public health researcher and educator has educated two generations of Asian health leaders who are altering the path of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The results presented in a new study by researchers at UCLA and in Brazil Zika revealed associations between infection and “grave outcomes” including fetal death, fetal growth restriction and nervous system damage.

The report recommends that a state agency and agricultural commissioners evaluate pesticide mixtures and implement regulations to more adequately protect human health.

People who become targets of discrimination can suffer effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher risk for developing stress-related disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Through a systematic review of Alzheimer’s studies, Ron Brookmeyer’s team at UCLA has found that the rate of being diagnosed with the disease doubles every five years in older populations.

Data may still underestimate the nation’s homicide rate, researchers say.

These laws were intended to control the spread of the virus but an analysis of data show that they’ve had a punitive effect on people they were meant to protect.

A new Fiat Lux course at UCLA is familiarizing students with a bygone era of acceptance of the cigarette and how a nationwide anti-smoking campaign gained momentum.

Fielding School of Public Health research touts the virtues of the open-streets program, which temporarily closes local roads to motor vehicles and encourages walking and cycling.

The creation of China’s first long-distance, web-based smoking cessation program, encouraged more nurses to get involved with helping patients quit smoking.

Los Angeles-area Korean Americans who heard presentations in their churches were more likely to get tested, according to researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A new global health minor explores the institutional, economic, logistic, legal and social challenges of global health, using a multidisciplinary lens to consider health in a global context.

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released the California Health Interview Survey for both 2013 and 2014, which contain data about a wide range of health care topics from surveys of more than 20,000 participants each year.

The money will fund a new collaboration among primary care clinics, community-based organizations and educational institutions throughout Riverside County.

Dr. Nina Shapiro writes in the Wall Street Journal that a new law in California permitting exemptions for vaccines only with a doctor's order is a good first step, but more needs to be done to ensure vaccination compliance.

New research is particularly important in light of the recent rise in cases of measles in the U.S.

Teens who have a positive role model, an adult mentor at school, and who volunteer or participate in extracurricular clubs are less likely to be overweight.

Public health professor Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, joined a panel of health experts at a Zócalo event to discuss how to help low-income families stay healthy.

Students’ confidence levels, P.E. enjoyment, and knowledge about fitness also increased following the program.