Arnulfo G Ramirez
Biographic Data
| ID | 190720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnulfo G Ramirez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnulfo G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramirez |
| SIGNATURE | RAMIREZ A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5310-1337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Uncovering multilevel drivers of cancer disparities among Latinos in the United States
Cancer disparities among Latinos in the United States persist as a significant public health challenge, characterized by inequitable outcomes throughout the cancer continuum. Latinos experience elevated rates and poorer prognoses in certain cancers compared to other populations, driven by complex, multilevel interactions involving environmental exposures, genetic factors, cultural practices, and systemic inequalities. Recognizing the substantial …
Cancer outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: An integrative review and conceptual model of determinants of health
Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics. Compared to non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of disease and experience poor quality of life following a cancer diagnosis. Cancer outcomes are influenced by a confluence of social, cultural, behavioral and biological factors. Yet, much of the behavioral and psychosocial research in oncology has focused on non-Hispanic Whites, thus limiting our …
The National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Findings demonstrate the value of government-supported, community-academic, CBPR partnerships in cancer prevention and control research
Conceptions of acculturation: A review and statement of critical issues
Reductions in Cigarette Smoking and Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality in Jefferson County, Texas
After litigation against the tobacco industry ended in a settlement, the Texas legislature funded pilot projects to reduce tobacco use in selected areas of the state. Subsequent telephone surveys showed that well-funded activities were successful in reducing population rates of self-reported cigarette smoking. We present evidence that the reduction in smoking promptly led to lower rates of death from acute myocardial infarctions
A Su Salud: A Quasi-experimental Study Among Mexican American Women
Although it is important to address the cultural needs of all Mexican American women, it is also important to understand the tangible environmental barriers faced by the older women
Cigarette Smoking Behavior Among US Latino Men and Women From Different Countries of Origin
Objectives. This study sought to compare smoking behavior among Latino men and women from different countries of origin. Methods. A telephone-administered survey was conducted in 8 cities with Latino men and women of different national origin living in census tracts with at least 70% Latino individuals. Results. A total of 8882 participants completed the survey; 53% were women. The average age of respondents was 44 years; 63% were foreign-born, a…
Cervical Cancer Screening in Regional Hispanic Populations
How a Group of High School Learners of Spanish Perceives the Cultural Identities of Spanish Speakers, English Speakers, and Themselves
Sociolingüística del español-inglés en contacto entre adolescentes hispanos de Estados Unidos
S s: Sociolinguistic Aspects, 1982), S.nchez Veltman (1983) y del bilingilismo y su efecto (Chicano Discourse: Sociohistoric Perspecacaddmico que presentan FernLindez y Nielsen tives, 1983), Elias-Olivares et al. (Spanish (1986). Al estudiar al adolescente hispano en Language Use andPublicLife in the USA, 1985), distintaslocalidades,condistintasprocedenciasMoore y Pach6n (Hispanics in the United States, mexicoamericana, puertorriquefia, cubana-y …
Bilingual and ESL Classrooms: Teaching in Multicultural Contexts
Bilingualism Through Schooling: Cross-Cultural Education for Minority and Majority Students: Arnulfo G. Ramirez The TESOL Quarterly welcomes evaluative reviews of publications of relevance to TESOL professionals. In addition to textbooks and reference materials, these include computer and video software, testing instruments, and other forms of nonprint materials
Bilingualism Through Schooling: Cross Cultural Education for Minority and Majority Students
Notions of Grammaticality among Teachers of Bilingual Pupils
Teachers attending summer institutes were asked to react to different varieties of English and Spanish. The teachers participating in the ESL and Applied Sociolinguistics Institutes evaluated four varieties of English: (a) standard American English, (b) Hispanicized English, (c) ungrammatical English, and (d) English/Spanish code alternation. The teachers participating in the Bilingual Institute judged four varieties of Spanish: (a) standard Mexi…
Language Learning Strategies Used by Adolescents Studying French in New York Schools
Students studying French at Levels I, II, and III in a rural and urban school setting indicated on a questionnaire their use of learning strategies associated with classroom behaviors, individual study tactics, and social interactional behaviors. Successful learning behaviors related to communicative abilities, reading performance, and achievement on a standardized test were found to vary due to the nature of the task. Years of language study als…
A media-based acculturation scale for Mexican-Americans: Application to Public Health Education Programs
Ramirez, Amelie G. MPH; Cousins, Jennifer H. PhD; Santos, Yolanda MSW; Supik, Josie D. MA Author Information
Intragroup Differences and Attitudes toward Varieties of Spanish among Bilingual Pupils from California and Texas
Mexican-American high school students from Texas (n=50) and California (n=80) rated their relative proficiency and use of Spanish. The pupils registered their reactions to four varieties of Spanish (16 passages-read by four speakers and recorded on tape using the matched guise technique). Differential reactions to the four varieties-code switching, ungrammatical, dialectal, and "standard" Mexican Spanish-were interpreted as revealing differential…
Indicators of response to a mass media CPR recruitment campaign
Respondents to a mass media cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recruitment campaign in Harris County, Texas were more likely than non-respondents to be White, female, and under 45 years of age, to have had previous CPR training, experienced an incident in which knowledge of CPR might have been useful, or to have a friend or relative with a relevant medical history. The majority of the respondents were housewives, and professionals or technical w…
Impact on retention: Comparison of two CPR training programs
CPR trainees who completed 8-hour, 3 session and 4-hour single session courses were studied for skill and cognitive retention one year after certification. Knowledge and performance scores were significantly higher for trainees from the long course, but performance skills for both groups were below certification level when compared to American Heart Association standards. The findings suggest the need for further evaluation of course components w…
Teaching Standard English in the Third Grade: Classroom Functions of Language1
This study is based on the examination of twenty lessons of about 20 minutes duration each. Ten of the lessons dealt with teaching standard English negation (lesson 1), ten of the lessons dealt with the teaching of standard English past tense formation (lesson 2). The pupils were third graders, predominantly speakers of Vernacular Black English (VBE). The purpose of the study was (I) to determine the distribution of the main classroom discourse f…
ESL Methodology and Student Language Learning in Bilingual Elementary Schools
The effect of ESL teaching techniques on student learning was investigated. A group of 18 ESL teachers and their classes were observed across four lessons with similar content. Students were preand posttested over a six-month period by two measures of language performance: oral comprehension and production. Teaching behaviors such as asking guided questions, correcting grammatical structures, explaining new vocabulary, and teacher's knowledge of …
Authors' Response
Authors' Response Frank J. Weaver, and Amelie G. Ramirez CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.4.414-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
The efficacy of lay CPR instruction: An evaluation
The efficacy of lay CPR instruction: an evaluation. A G Ramirez, F J Weaver, A E Raizner, S B Dorfman, K L Herrick, and A M Gotto, JrCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.67.11.1093 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Acquisition of English and the Maintenance of Spanish in a Bilingual Education Program
Spanish and English versions of a 38-item grammar test were administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels K, one, three, and five (10 subjects per grade) in a bilingual education program. The test was a revision of part of an earlier test for oral proficiency in Spanish and English. The reliability of the new test, measured by Cronbach a, was .95 for the Spanish version and .96 for the English version, but many…
An Error Analysis of the Spoken English of Mexican-american Pupils in a Bilingual School and a Monolingual School1
Speech samples were obtained from Mexican-American children who attended a monolingual school (N = 67) and Mexican-American children who attended a bilingual school (N = 59) in the same school district. The children were asked to tell the story of a silent movie they had watched immediately before being interviewed. Their answers were recorded on tape and transcribed. Deviations from standard English were counted and categorized. The main finding…
Cigarette Smoking Behavior Among US Latino Men and Women From Different Countries of Origin
Objectives. This study sought to compare smoking behavior among Latino men and women from different countries of origin. Methods. A telephone-administered survey was conducted in 8 cities with Latino men and women of different national origin living in census tracts with at least 70% Latino individuals. Results. A total of 8882 participants completed the survey; 53% were women. The average age of respondents was 44 years; 63% were foreign-born, a…
A media-based acculturation scale for Mexican-Americans: Application to Public Health Education Programs
Ramirez, Amelie G. MPH; Cousins, Jennifer H. PhD; Santos, Yolanda MSW; Supik, Josie D. MA Author Information
Language Learning Strategies Used by Adolescents Studying French in New York Schools
Students studying French at Levels I, II, and III in a rural and urban school setting indicated on a questionnaire their use of learning strategies associated with classroom behaviors, individual study tactics, and social interactional behaviors. Successful learning behaviors related to communicative abilities, reading performance, and achievement on a standardized test were found to vary due to the nature of the task. Years of language study als…
Impact on retention: Comparison of two CPR training programs
CPR trainees who completed 8-hour, 3 session and 4-hour single session courses were studied for skill and cognitive retention one year after certification. Knowledge and performance scores were significantly higher for trainees from the long course, but performance skills for both groups were below certification level when compared to American Heart Association standards. The findings suggest the need for further evaluation of course components w…
Cancer outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: An integrative review and conceptual model of determinants of health
Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics. Compared to non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of disease and experience poor quality of life following a cancer diagnosis. Cancer outcomes are influenced by a confluence of social, cultural, behavioral and biological factors. Yet, much of the behavioral and psychosocial research in oncology has focused on non-Hispanic Whites, thus limiting our …
ESL Methodology and Student Language Learning in Bilingual Elementary Schools
The effect of ESL teaching techniques on student learning was investigated. A group of 18 ESL teachers and their classes were observed across four lessons with similar content. Students were preand posttested over a six-month period by two measures of language performance: oral comprehension and production. Teaching behaviors such as asking guided questions, correcting grammatical structures, explaining new vocabulary, and teacher's knowledge of …
How a Group of High School Learners of Spanish Perceives the Cultural Identities of Spanish Speakers, English Speakers, and Themselves
Notions of Grammaticality among Teachers of Bilingual Pupils
Teachers attending summer institutes were asked to react to different varieties of English and Spanish. The teachers participating in the ESL and Applied Sociolinguistics Institutes evaluated four varieties of English: (a) standard American English, (b) Hispanicized English, (c) ungrammatical English, and (d) English/Spanish code alternation. The teachers participating in the Bilingual Institute judged four varieties of Spanish: (a) standard Mexi…
The National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Findings demonstrate the value of government-supported, community-academic, CBPR partnerships in cancer prevention and control research
Sociolingüística del español-inglés en contacto entre adolescentes hispanos de Estados Unidos
S s: Sociolinguistic Aspects, 1982), S.nchez Veltman (1983) y del bilingilismo y su efecto (Chicano Discourse: Sociohistoric Perspecacaddmico que presentan FernLindez y Nielsen tives, 1983), Elias-Olivares et al. (Spanish (1986). Al estudiar al adolescente hispano en Language Use andPublicLife in the USA, 1985), distintaslocalidades,condistintasprocedenciasMoore y Pach6n (Hispanics in the United States, mexicoamericana, puertorriquefia, cubana-y …
Intragroup Differences and Attitudes toward Varieties of Spanish among Bilingual Pupils from California and Texas
Mexican-American high school students from Texas (n=50) and California (n=80) rated their relative proficiency and use of Spanish. The pupils registered their reactions to four varieties of Spanish (16 passages-read by four speakers and recorded on tape using the matched guise technique). Differential reactions to the four varieties-code switching, ungrammatical, dialectal, and "standard" Mexican Spanish-were interpreted as revealing differential…
Indicators of response to a mass media CPR recruitment campaign
Respondents to a mass media cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recruitment campaign in Harris County, Texas were more likely than non-respondents to be White, female, and under 45 years of age, to have had previous CPR training, experienced an incident in which knowledge of CPR might have been useful, or to have a friend or relative with a relevant medical history. The majority of the respondents were housewives, and professionals or technical w…
Teaching Standard English in the Third Grade: Classroom Functions of Language1
This study is based on the examination of twenty lessons of about 20 minutes duration each. Ten of the lessons dealt with teaching standard English negation (lesson 1), ten of the lessons dealt with the teaching of standard English past tense formation (lesson 2). The pupils were third graders, predominantly speakers of Vernacular Black English (VBE). The purpose of the study was (I) to determine the distribution of the main classroom discourse f…
The Acquisition of English and the Maintenance of Spanish in a Bilingual Education Program
Spanish and English versions of a 38-item grammar test were administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels K, one, three, and five (10 subjects per grade) in a bilingual education program. The test was a revision of part of an earlier test for oral proficiency in Spanish and English. The reliability of the new test, measured by Cronbach a, was .95 for the Spanish version and .96 for the English version, but many…
An Error Analysis of the Spoken English of Mexican-american Pupils in a Bilingual School and a Monolingual School1
Speech samples were obtained from Mexican-American children who attended a monolingual school (N = 67) and Mexican-American children who attended a bilingual school (N = 59) in the same school district. The children were asked to tell the story of a silent movie they had watched immediately before being interviewed. Their answers were recorded on tape and transcribed. Deviations from standard English were counted and categorized. The main finding…
The Acquisition of English and the Maintenance of Spanish in a Bilingual Education Program
Spanish and English versions of a 38-item grammar test were administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels K, one, three, and five (10 subjects per grade) in a bilingual education program. The test was a revision of part of an earlier test for oral proficiency in Spanish and English. The reliability of the new test, measured by Cronbach a, was .95 for the Spanish version and .96 for the English version, but many…
The efficacy of lay CPR instruction: An evaluation
The efficacy of lay CPR instruction: an evaluation. A G Ramirez, F J Weaver, A E Raizner, S B Dorfman, K L Herrick, and A M Gotto, JrCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.67.11.1093 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Authors' Response
Authors' Response Frank J. Weaver, and Amelie G. Ramirez CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.4.414-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
ESL Methodology and Student Language Learning in Bilingual Elementary Schools
The effect of ESL teaching techniques on student learning was investigated. A group of 18 ESL teachers and their classes were observed across four lessons with similar content. Students were preand posttested over a six-month period by two measures of language performance: oral comprehension and production. Teaching behaviors such as asking guided questions, correcting grammatical structures, explaining new vocabulary, and teacher's knowledge of …
Teaching Standard English in the Third Grade: Classroom Functions of Language1
This study is based on the examination of twenty lessons of about 20 minutes duration each. Ten of the lessons dealt with teaching standard English negation (lesson 1), ten of the lessons dealt with the teaching of standard English past tense formation (lesson 2). The pupils were third graders, predominantly speakers of Vernacular Black English (VBE). The purpose of the study was (I) to determine the distribution of the main classroom discourse f…
Indicators of response to a mass media CPR recruitment campaign
Respondents to a mass media cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recruitment campaign in Harris County, Texas were more likely than non-respondents to be White, female, and under 45 years of age, to have had previous CPR training, experienced an incident in which knowledge of CPR might have been useful, or to have a friend or relative with a relevant medical history. The majority of the respondents were housewives, and professionals or technical w…
Impact on retention: Comparison of two CPR training programs
CPR trainees who completed 8-hour, 3 session and 4-hour single session courses were studied for skill and cognitive retention one year after certification. Knowledge and performance scores were significantly higher for trainees from the long course, but performance skills for both groups were below certification level when compared to American Heart Association standards. The findings suggest the need for further evaluation of course components w…
Intragroup Differences and Attitudes toward Varieties of Spanish among Bilingual Pupils from California and Texas
Mexican-American high school students from Texas (n=50) and California (n=80) rated their relative proficiency and use of Spanish. The pupils registered their reactions to four varieties of Spanish (16 passages-read by four speakers and recorded on tape using the matched guise technique). Differential reactions to the four varieties-code switching, ungrammatical, dialectal, and "standard" Mexican Spanish-were interpreted as revealing differential…
Bilingualism Through Schooling: Cross Cultural Education for Minority and Majority Students
Notions of Grammaticality among Teachers of Bilingual Pupils
Teachers attending summer institutes were asked to react to different varieties of English and Spanish. The teachers participating in the ESL and Applied Sociolinguistics Institutes evaluated four varieties of English: (a) standard American English, (b) Hispanicized English, (c) ungrammatical English, and (d) English/Spanish code alternation. The teachers participating in the Bilingual Institute judged four varieties of Spanish: (a) standard Mexi…
Language Learning Strategies Used by Adolescents Studying French in New York Schools
Students studying French at Levels I, II, and III in a rural and urban school setting indicated on a questionnaire their use of learning strategies associated with classroom behaviors, individual study tactics, and social interactional behaviors. Successful learning behaviors related to communicative abilities, reading performance, and achievement on a standardized test were found to vary due to the nature of the task. Years of language study als…
A media-based acculturation scale for Mexican-Americans: Application to Public Health Education Programs
Ramirez, Amelie G. MPH; Cousins, Jennifer H. PhD; Santos, Yolanda MSW; Supik, Josie D. MA Author Information
Bilingual and ESL Classrooms: Teaching in Multicultural Contexts
Bilingualism Through Schooling: Cross-Cultural Education for Minority and Majority Students: Arnulfo G. Ramirez The TESOL Quarterly welcomes evaluative reviews of publications of relevance to TESOL professionals. In addition to textbooks and reference materials, these include computer and video software, testing instruments, and other forms of nonprint materials
Sociolingüística del español-inglés en contacto entre adolescentes hispanos de Estados Unidos
S s: Sociolinguistic Aspects, 1982), S.nchez Veltman (1983) y del bilingilismo y su efecto (Chicano Discourse: Sociohistoric Perspecacaddmico que presentan FernLindez y Nielsen tives, 1983), Elias-Olivares et al. (Spanish (1986). Al estudiar al adolescente hispano en Language Use andPublicLife in the USA, 1985), distintaslocalidades,condistintasprocedenciasMoore y Pach6n (Hispanics in the United States, mexicoamericana, puertorriquefia, cubana-y …
How a Group of High School Learners of Spanish Perceives the Cultural Identities of Spanish Speakers, English Speakers, and Themselves
Cervical Cancer Screening in Regional Hispanic Populations
Cigarette Smoking Behavior Among US Latino Men and Women From Different Countries of Origin
Objectives. This study sought to compare smoking behavior among Latino men and women from different countries of origin. Methods. A telephone-administered survey was conducted in 8 cities with Latino men and women of different national origin living in census tracts with at least 70% Latino individuals. Results. A total of 8882 participants completed the survey; 53% were women. The average age of respondents was 44 years; 63% were foreign-born, a…
A Su Salud: A Quasi-experimental Study Among Mexican American Women
Although it is important to address the cultural needs of all Mexican American women, it is also important to understand the tangible environmental barriers faced by the older women
Reductions in Cigarette Smoking and Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality in Jefferson County, Texas
After litigation against the tobacco industry ended in a settlement, the Texas legislature funded pilot projects to reduce tobacco use in selected areas of the state. Subsequent telephone surveys showed that well-funded activities were successful in reducing population rates of self-reported cigarette smoking. We present evidence that the reduction in smoking promptly led to lower rates of death from acute myocardial infarctions
Conceptions of acculturation: A review and statement of critical issues
The National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Findings demonstrate the value of government-supported, community-academic, CBPR partnerships in cancer prevention and control research
Cancer outcomes in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: An integrative review and conceptual model of determinants of health
Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics. Compared to non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of disease and experience poor quality of life following a cancer diagnosis. Cancer outcomes are influenced by a confluence of social, cultural, behavioral and biological factors. Yet, much of the behavioral and psychosocial research in oncology has focused on non-Hispanic Whites, thus limiting our …
Uncovering multilevel drivers of cancer disparities among Latinos in the United States
Cancer disparities among Latinos in the United States persist as a significant public health challenge, characterized by inequitable outcomes throughout the cancer continuum. Latinos experience elevated rates and poorer prognoses in certain cancers compared to other populations, driven by complex, multilevel interactions involving environmental exposures, genetic factors, cultural practices, and systemic inequalities. Recognizing the substantial …
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works)