Arturo Vargas Bustamante
University of California, Los Angeles
67 Papers
146 Citations
Arturo Vargas Bustamante is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 46 publications. Previous affiliations of Arturo Vargas Bustamante include University of California, Berkeley.
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Papers
Pre-COVID-19 Social Determinants of Health Among Mexican Migrants in Los Angeles and New York City and Their Increased Vulnerability to Unfavorable Health Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the underlying vulnerabilities of Mexican immigrants in New York City (NYC) and Los Angeles (LA), its correspondence with area-level COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, and document the role of trusted and culturally sensitive services offered during the pandemic through the Ventanillas de Salud (i.e., Health Windows) program.
Avoiding Medicaid enrollment after the reversal of the changes in the public charge rule among Latino and Asian immigrants.
TL;DR: Estimates of the avoidance of Medicaid enrollment among immigrants without a green card, the immigrant population subject to the public charge rule, are lower than those of previous studies, highlighting barriers to health care for immigrants despite the reversal of the changes in thepublic charge rule.
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Migration as a determinant of childhood obesity in the United States and Latin America
Mireya Vilar-Compte,Arturo Vargas Bustamante,Nancy López-Olmedo,Pablo Gaitán-Rossi,Jaqueline Torres,Karen E. Peterson,Graciela Teruel,Rafael Pérez-Escamilla +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the Community Energy Balance (CEB) framework to analyze the relationship between migration and childhood obesity in Mexican households with international migrants, using longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS).
US-Mexico cross-border health visitors: how Mexican border cities in the state of Baja California address unmet healthcare needs from US residents
TL;DR: It is argued that changes in health insurance entitlements under the ACA are unlikely to change the incentives to make use of health services south of the border, and affordability, cultural familiarity, perceived quality of care in Mexico, and geographic proximity continue to be comparative advantages for healthcare providers in Mexican border cities.
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Integrating immigrants into the U.S. health system.
TL;DR: Cultural sensitivity training, language assistance, and diversity-oriented hiring policies can help medical organizations integrate immigrants into the American health care system.