How do we understand the diverse health care needs of the 39.5 million people who live in California? For nearly 20 years, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) has produced the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), which interviews more than 20,000 Californians on a wide range of health topics such as health conditions, health care access, mental health, health status and behaviors, and many more across various sociodemographic factors such as race and ethnicity, gender, age, and poverty level, to provide a detailed picture of the health and health care needs of California’s large and diverse population.
As the largest state health survey in the nation, policymakers, legislators, local health departments, community organizations, researchers, health experts, members of the media, and others depend on CHIS for credible and comprehensive data on the health of Californians.
During this annual webinar, Ninez A. Ponce PhD, MPP, UCLA CHPR director and CHIS principal investigator, and Todd Hughes, CHIS director, discussed findings from the 2019 survey and shared data from brand new questions on sex without consent, public program participation, caregiving, social media use and mental health, and suicide ideation among veterans, and share sampling and data collection redesign. Susan H. Babey, PhD, UCLA CHPR senior research scientist and co-director of the Chronic Disease Program, provided a special look at voter participation findings across the state in advance of the presidential election.
To run your own queries, visit ask.chis.ucla.edu/.
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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. Established in 1994, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is based in the Fielding School of Public Health and affiliated with the Luskin School of Public Affairs.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research improves the public’s health by advancing health policy through research, public service, community partnership, and education.
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is the largest state health survey in the nation. It is a web and telephone survey that asks questions on a wide range of health topics. CHIS is conducted on a continuous basis allowing the survey to generate timely one-year estimates. CHIS provides representative data on all 58 counties in California and provides a detailed picture of the health and health care needs of California’s large and diverse population.
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