"Dangerous to himself and/or others" ... Menendez v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

I.V. withdrawal: the severance of medicine's or society's umbilical cord? Barber v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 137 Cal.App.3d 1006, 195 Cal.Rptr. 484 (1983)

Discovering donors: legal rights to access information about anonymous sperm donors given to children of artificial insemination in Johnson v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

Health of adults in Los Angeles County: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004.

OBJECTIVE Los Angeles County has the largest population of any county in the nation. Population-based estimates of health conditions for Los Angeles County are based primarily on telephone surveys, which are known to underestimate conditions of public health importance. This report presents the prevalence of selected health conditions for civilian noninstitutionalized adults aged 20 and over li...

Assessing Risk-Based Policies for Pretrial Release and Split Sentencing in Los Angeles County Jails

Court-mandated downsizing of the CA prison system has led to a redistribution of detainees from prisons to CA county jails, and subsequent jail overcrowding. Using data that is representative of the LA County jail system, we build a mathematical model that tracks the flow of individuals during arraignment, pretrial release or detention, case disposition, jail sentence, and possible recidivism d...

Declines in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Children in Los Angeles County, 2007 and 2011

This study assessed changes in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) among children (aged≤17 years) in Los Angeles County. We analyzed children's data from the 2007 (n=5,595) and 2011 (n=5,934) Los Angeles County Health Survey. The percentage of children who consumed 1 or more SSB per day decreased from 43.3% in 2007 to 38.3% in 2011 (P<.001); this decrease was seen across most sociod...