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Héctor E. Alcalá

Department of Behavioral and Community Health
Verified email at ucla.edu
Cited by 1723

Islamophobia, health, and public health: a systematic literature review

G Samari, HE Alcalá, MZ Sharif - American journal of …, 2018 - ajph.aphapublications.org
HEAlcalá created the search strategy. MZSharif led the analyses. All authors participated in
… or less Muslim) or affect what he or she attributes ambiguous experiences of discrimination …

Social determinants of health, violent radicalization, and terrorism: a public health perspective

HE Alcalá, MZ Sharif, G Samari - Health equity, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Background: Terrorism-related deaths are at an all-time high as there were 32,685 and 29,376
terrorism-related deaths in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Terrorism is defined as the use …

Association of preterm births among US Latina women with the 2016 presidential election

…, R Catalano, JA Casey, D Karasek, HE Alcalá… - JAMA network …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
… started to tell me about all the bad news he was getting. I then asked if he watched TV news
programs, to which he responded that he watched them in the morning and night every day. …

Impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care access and utilization among Latinos

HE Alcalá, J Chen, BA Langellier… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - Am Board Family Med
… Finally, the measure of citizenship may also be crude in examining the ACA's impact, since
there is no way of knowing who is a lawful permanent resident and whether he or she has …

Cancer disparities in rural Appalachia: incidence, early detection, and survivorship

N Yao, HE Alcalá, R Anderson… - The Journal of Rural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To document cancer‐related health disparities in Appalachia. Methods The current
study investigated disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and staging between rural …

Adverse childhood experiences and access and utilization of health care

HE Alcalá, A Valdez-Dadia… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… Héctor E Alcalá , Héctor E Alcalá … Héctor E Alcalá, Annalyn Valdez-Dadia, Ondine S von
Ehrenstein, Adverse childhood experiences and access and utilization of health care, Journal of …

The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of US vital statistics data from 2009 to 2018

G Samari, R Catalano, HE Alcalá, A Gemmill - Social Science & Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Anti-immigrant stigma or xenophobia is increasingly pervasive globally. Racism is a determinant
of adverse health outcomes, but the epidemiological implications of the recent wave of …

Insurance coverage and well-child visits improved for youth under the Affordable Care Act, but Latino youth still lag behind

AN Ortega, RM McKenna, J Chen, HE Alcalá… - Academic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To examine whether there have been changes in insurance coverage and health
care utilization for youth before and after the national implementation of the Patient …

Insurance type and access to health care providers and appointments under the Affordable Care Act

HE Alcalá, DH Roby, DT Grande, RM McKenna… - Medical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: Millions of adults have gained insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
However, disparities in access to care persist. Objective: This study examined differences …

Gender differences in the association between adverse childhood experiences and cancer

HE Alcalá, AJ Tomiyama, OS von Ehrenstein - Women's Health Issues, 2017 - Elsevier
… This is important because, as some have argued, not all ACE items may be linked to cancer
by the same mechanisms or to the same degree (Alcalá, 2016). … HE AlcaláHE Alcalá