Victoria D. Ojeda
University of California, San Diego
74 Papers
517 Citations
Victoria D. Ojeda is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 68 publications. Previous affiliations of Victoria D. Ojeda include Harvard University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Insurance and Health Care
E. Richard Brown,Victoria D. Ojeda,Roberta Wyn,Rebecca Levan +3 more
- 01 Apr 2000
TL;DR: To examine the relationship of ethnicity and other factors on health insurance coverage and on access to health services, this report analyzed two population-based surveys, the Current Population Survey and the National Health Interview Survey.
Epidemiology of Substance Use among Forced Migrants: A Global Systematic Review.
TL;DR: A need to integrate substance use prevention and treatment into services offered to forced migrants, particularly in camp settings is suggested, and efforts to develop and evaluate interventions to reduce substance use and related harms are needed.
Gender, Race-Ethnicity, and Psychosocial Barriers to Mental Health Care: An Examination of Perceptions and Attitudes among Adults Reporting Unmet Need
TL;DR: Findings imply a need to reconsider the roles of gender, race-ethnicity, and socioeconomic status within investigations of psychosocial barriers to care, and future research should examine the relationships among social status, help-seeking behaviors, and attitudes toward mental health care.
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Differential effects of migration and deportation on HIV infection among male and female injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico.
Steffanie A. Strathdee,Remedios Lozada,Victoria D. Ojeda,Robin A. Pollini,Kimberly C. Brouwer,Alicia Vera,Wayne A. Cornelius,Lucie Nguyen,Carlos Magis-Rodriguez,Thomas L. Patterson,Thomas L. Patterson,for Proyecto El Cuete +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared factors associated with HIV infection among male and female injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana in an effort to inform HIV prevention and treatment programs.
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Health insurance coverage for vulnerable populations: contrasting Asian Americans and Latinos in the United States.
Margarita Alegría,Zhun Cao,Thomas G. McGuire,Victoria D. Ojeda,Bill Sribney,Meghan Woo,David T. Takeuchi +6 more
TL;DR: Analysis of data from the National Latino and Asian American Study compares coverage differences among and within ethnic subgroups, across states and regions, among types of occupations, and among those with or without English language proficiency.