Arturo Vargas Bustamante

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Comparing federal and state healthcare provider performance in villages targeted by the conditional cash transfer programme of Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, Universiy of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Trop Med Int Health 16:1251-9. 2011
  2. ncbi Health expenditure dynamics and years of U.S. residence: analyzing spending disparities among Latinos by citizenship/nativity status
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E Young Drive, South Room 31 299C, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Health Serv Res 47:794-818. 2012
  3. ncbi United States-Mexico cross-border health insurance initiatives: Salud Migrante and Medicare in Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Bustamante, California, USA
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 31:74-80. 2012
  4. ncbi Estimating the effects of immigration status on mental health care utilizations in the United States
    Jie Chen
    Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island City University of New York, 2800 Victory Blvd, Room 2 N 229, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 13:671-80. 2011
  5. ncbi Variations in healthcare access and utilization among Mexican immigrants: the role of documentation status
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 14:146-55. 2012
  6. ncbi The tradeoff between centralized and decentralized health services: evidence from rural areas in Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    UCLA School of Public Health, Health Services, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, 31 299 C, 90095 Los Angleles, CA, United States
    Soc Sci Med 71:925-34. 2010
  7. ncbi Use of preventive care services among Latino subgroups
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, 90095 1772, USA
    Am J Prev Med 38:610-9. 2010
  8. ncbi Heterogeneity in health insurance coverage among US Latino adults
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E Young Drive South Room 31 299C, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 24:561-6. 2009
  9. ncbi Physicians cite hurdles ranging from lack of coverage to poor communication in providing high-quality care to latinos
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1921-9. 2011
  10. ncbi Understanding observed and unobserved health care access and utilization disparities among US Latino adults
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 66:561-77. 2009

Detail Information

Publications10

  1. ncbi Comparing federal and state healthcare provider performance in villages targeted by the conditional cash transfer programme of Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, Universiy of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Trop Med Int Health 16:1251-9. 2011
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  2. ncbi Health expenditure dynamics and years of U.S. residence: analyzing spending disparities among Latinos by citizenship/nativity status
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E Young Drive, South Room 31 299C, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Health Serv Res 47:794-818. 2012
    ..We investigate health expenditure disparities between Latinos and non-Latino whites by years of United States residence and citizenship/nativity status...
  3. ncbi United States-Mexico cross-border health insurance initiatives: Salud Migrante and Medicare in Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Bustamante, California, USA
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 31:74-80. 2012
    ..S. health care system (through Salud Migrante), and access to lower-cost Medicare-supported health care for U.S. retirees in Mexico (Medicare in Mexico)...
  4. ncbi Estimating the effects of immigration status on mental health care utilizations in the United States
    Jie Chen
    Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island City University of New York, 2800 Victory Blvd, Room 2 N 229, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 13:671-80. 2011
    ..Targeted interventions should also focus on addressing immigrants' language barriers, and providing culturally appropriate services...
  5. ncbi Variations in healthcare access and utilization among Mexican immigrants: the role of documentation status
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 14:146-55. 2012
    ..The recently approved Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not reduce these disparities unless undocumented immigrants are granted some form of legal status...
  6. ncbi The tradeoff between centralized and decentralized health services: evidence from rural areas in Mexico
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    UCLA School of Public Health, Health Services, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, 31 299 C, 90095 Los Angleles, CA, United States
    Soc Sci Med 71:925-34. 2010
    ..These findings are robust to decentralization timing, heterogeneity in per capita government health expenditures, state and health infrastructure effects, and other confounders...
  7. ncbi Use of preventive care services among Latino subgroups
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, 90095 1772, USA
    Am J Prev Med 38:610-9. 2010
    ..Most of this work, however, pools Latinos together when they compare different racial and ethnic groups. There is currently no information about the consistency of preventive care utilization across major Latino subgroups...
  8. ncbi Heterogeneity in health insurance coverage among US Latino adults
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E Young Drive South Room 31 299C, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 24:561-6. 2009
    ..Our hypothesis was that Latinos of Mexican ancestry have worse health insurance coverage than their non-Mexican Latino counterparts...
  9. ncbi Physicians cite hurdles ranging from lack of coverage to poor communication in providing high-quality care to latinos
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1921-9. 2011
    ..Insurance expansions and complementary reforms mandated by the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and other recent legislation should aid physicians in closing some of these gaps in quality...
  10. ncbi Understanding observed and unobserved health care access and utilization disparities among US Latino adults
    Arturo Vargas Bustamante
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 66:561-77. 2009
    ..Although a significant share of these disparities may be explained by observed characteristics, disparities because of unobserved heterogeneity among the different Latino cohorts are also considerable...