public health

UCLA’s Dr. Matthew Waxman writes about the two months he spent in Sierra Leone treating people suffering from the deadly Ebola virus.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health team, in partnership with public- and private-sector organizations, is spearheading community action to reduce exposure to smoking in Los Angeles apartment buildings.

Adult obesity rates varied widely by county: San Francisco County had the lowest, 11.3 percent, and Imperial County the highest, 41.7 percent.

“Much of the psychological distress stemming from chronic life stress and trauma remains undetected and untreated,” said Gail Wyatt, a UCLA psychiatry professor.

Professor Phillip Leslie writes that we shouldn’t let fear of private companies intruding on our privacy prevent us from reaping the benefits of using large data sets to enact policies.

A national leader in identifying dangerous chemical exposures and then applying the findings toward regulations to protect health, John Froines has spent his career pursuing both.

Payment system implemented in 2002 has led to longer stays and discharge patterns that appear to be based on financial considerations rather than solely on patient need.

Frequency of drinking correlates with a higher likelihood of supervisory neglect by parents but a lower likelihood of physical neglect, according to a UCLA-led study.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.

To reach a vulnerable population largely unaware of the health risks, a team from the Fielding School of Public Health held small group discussions in more than 50 Los Angeles-area Korean churches.

Although the implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to have helped, public health experts expect that Latinos will continue to have problems accessing high-quality health care.

UCLA’s Jody Heymann and Neal Baer co-author an op-ed that shows how far countries around the world have come in advancing equality and how far they still have to go.

A comprehensive report by UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center details rights, laws and policies pertaining to gender equality in 197 countries and Beijing Platform signatories.

Pledge from Sound Body Sound Mind funds new partnership to combat childhood obesity; initiative will provide fitness equipment to L.A. schools.

Dr. Nina Shapiro looks at the progression of the anti-vaccination movement in upscale Los Angeles, and emphasizes how the conversation must shift from addressing non-immunization as a political issue to the health crisis it is.

An air filtration system developed specifically for school buses reduces exposure to vehicular pollutants by up to 88 percent, according to a study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers.

Study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health points out another disturbing impact of income inequality: its effect on people’s health.

Screening travelers for fever on arrival has been criticized as ineffective, but the scientists found it can catch cases that screeners miss at departure.

A group of nursing students and faculty members on an educational mission were enthusiastically welcomed in Havana following news of closer relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

New UCLA study showing almost half of the 6.9 million Californians who lacked insurance in 2012 were in a family with a full-time worker will serve as a baseline to gauge effects of Obamacare.

Researchers at UCLA have devised a plan they say would be much more effective in reducing HIV transmission than simply trying to distribute antiretroviral drugs to as many people as possible.

Faculty at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health are working to determine why immigrants in the United States become unhealthier the longer they live in the country and promote solutions.

More than half a million older Californians — 12.6 percent of the state’s senior population — fall more than once a year, but nearly 60 percent of them fail to seek medical attention afterward, according to a UCLA study.

Researchers assessed 190 U.N. countries’ progress toward fulfilling their commitments to the right to education, protection from child labor and child marriage, and discrimination against children with disabilities.