Hector Balcazar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hector Balcazar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hector |
| FAMILY NAME | Balcazar |
| SIGNATURE | BALCAZAR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Development of a Novel, Standards-Based Core Curriculum for Community Facing, Clinic-Based Community Health Workers
Introduction: Historically, CHW trainings have been developed to support community-based CHWs. When CHWs have been trained to engage with patients, typically such trainings have been for short term grant funded projects, focusing on a specific health intervention and not for long term, ongoing engagement of CHWs employed in clinical settings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such effort to describe the development of a standards-ba…
What About Promotores? Promotores' Psychosocial Determinants That Influenced the Delivery of a Cervical Cancer Education Intervention to Hispanics
This study tested whether a cancer education intervention affected promotores' self-efficacy to deliver an intervention to Hispanics and which psychosocial determinants of promotores influenced the number of Hispanic residents reached by promotores in the subsequent education intervention. A quasi-experimental, pre/post-design with a treatment group (no control) assessed differences for promotores ( n = 136) before and after exposure to the cance…
Community Health Workers
An Examination of the Association of Multiple Acculturation Measures with Asthma Status Among Elementary School Students in El Paso, Texas
Community health workers in Canada and the US
In this commentary, we address community health workers’ (CHWs) marginalized social location within the health care systems of Canada and the US. This marginalization is due, in part, to their being a workforce shaped by socio-structural factors, such as gender discrimination, racism, and poor socio-economic conditions. This marginalization challenges their ability to address health equity. We propose system-level and workforce-level policy chang…
Healthcare Use and Mammography Among Latinas With and Without Health Insurance Near the US-Mexico Border
Reporting Guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health ’s Adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Widespread recognition of the need to improve the science of published research, as well as the moral and ethical reasons for adequately reporting study results, has spurred recent interest in strengthening journal research reporting through the use of reporting guidelines. Reporting guidelines also provide information for readers to judge study quality. American Journal of Public Health previously adopted the Consolidated Standards of Reporting …
A Profile of US-Mexico Border Mobility Among a Stratified Random Sample of Hispanics Living in the El Paso-Juarez Area
Community Health Workers Can Be a Public Health Force for Change in the United States
Community health workers (CHWs) have gained increased visibility in the United States. We discuss how to strengthen the roles of CHWs to enable them to become collaborative leaders in dramatically changing health care from “sickness care” systems to systems that provide comprehensive care for individuals and families and supports community and tribal wellness. We recommend drawing on the full spectrum of CHWs’ roles so that they can make optimal …
Tuberculosis in Mexicans
BENJAMIN GOLDBERG, A dedicated physician working at the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, was a pioneer in introducing early accounts of the public health challenges imposed by a new racial “type”: Mexicans. His 1929 Journal article, excerpted here, was originally read before the American Public Health Association's Vital Statistic…
Ethnic Pride and Cardiovascular Health Among Mexican American Adults Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
This study addressed the association between items from the General Acculturation Index (GAI) and cardiovascular health. Specifically, we assessed whether ethnic pride was associated with health outcomes after controlling for items regarding language, place where the childhood was spent, and ethnic interaction. The study was a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and clinical data from a border population of Mexican American adults ( n = 316) …
Place of Residence Modifies the Association Between Acculturation and Dietary Tools Knowledge Among Latina WIC Participants
Leading the Way Toward the Next 100 Years of Publishing
Resolving Conflict
Correlates of tobacco cessation counseling among Hispanic physicians in the US
More resources should be dedicated to training Hispanic physicians in tobacco intervention. Training may facilitate practice by increasing knowledge, developing skills and, ultimately, enhancing feelings of self-efficacy
Prepared to Serve Public Health
Health Issues in the Latino Communityxs
Use of Home Visit and Developmental Clinic Services by High Risk Mexican-American and White Non-Hispanic Infants
Development and Testing of Interview Questions to Determine Last Menstrual Period in Mexican Immigrant Populations
Acculturation and Family Functioning Are Related to Health Risks Among Pregnant Mexican American Women
The authors examined the independent and interactive effects of acculturation status and family cohesiveness on a series of psychosocial and medical risk factors of pregnancy among 500 women of Mexican origin. In general, both higher and lower levels of acculturation produced positive or negative psychosocial and healthcare consequences, and the operative relationships depended heavily on the particular outcome chosen. Higher levels of family coh…
Specifying the antecedents of breast-feeding duration in Peru through a structural equation model
Objective: To examine the effects of socioeconomic status and biocultural variables (planned pregnancy, prenatal care, timing of initiation of breast-feeding and caesarean section delivery) on breast-feeding duration in Peru using structural equation models. Design and setting: Structural equation models were analysed with LISREL using data from the 1991–92 Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey. Subjects: Models were tested among 6020 women whos…
Acculturation and Risk Behavior among Pregnant Mexican American Females
The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model designed to predict risk behavior (i.e., cigarette and/or alcohol use) in a sample of Mexican American females who were pregnant and ranged in age from adolescence to early adulthood. The model consisted of six hypothesized predictors-acculturation status, intergenerational family conflict, acculturative stress, educational attainment, household income, and age of respondent, which were pr…
Acculturation and Family Cohesiveness in Mexican American Pregnent Women
This article describes a classification system based on acculturation status and family cohcsivcncss and examines the extent to which these variables may determine the degree of exposure to high acculturative stress, social isolation, and health-related risk behaviors among Mexican American pregnant women. Empirical data from the Arizona Perinatal Acculturation Project was used to test the presence of an acculturation effect, a family cohesivenes…
Heart Disease Education and Prevention Program Targeting Immigrant Latinos
Acculturation and low-birthweight infants among Latino women
Previous studies have demonstrated that acculturation is associated with negative birth outcomes among mothers in numerous immigrant populations, including Latinas. This study used structural equation models to reanalyze data employed in the 1989 Scribner and Dwyer study on the effect of acculturation (measured through the Cuellar scale) on mothers' low-birthweight status. Data revealed that language components dominate the effects of acculturati…
Acculturation and low-birthweight infants among Latino women
Previous studies have demonstrated that acculturation is associated with negative birth outcomes among mothers in numerous immigrant populations, including Latinas. This study used structural equation models to reanalyze data employed in the 1989 Scribner and Dwyer study on the effect of acculturation (measured through the Cuellar scale) on mothers' low-birthweight status. Data revealed that language components dominate the effects of acculturati…
Community Health Workers Can Be a Public Health Force for Change in the United States
Community health workers (CHWs) have gained increased visibility in the United States. We discuss how to strengthen the roles of CHWs to enable them to become collaborative leaders in dramatically changing health care from “sickness care” systems to systems that provide comprehensive care for individuals and families and supports community and tribal wellness. We recommend drawing on the full spectrum of CHWs’ roles so that they can make optimal …
Variation in early neonatal mortality for different types of fetal growth retardation
Birth and first‐48‐hr death records were analyzed for 10,024 liveborn infants in Mexico City and 12,786 liveborn infants in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The objective of the analysis was to characterize the early postnatal mortality rates for different types of fetal growth retardation and prematurity. Infants who were delivered prior to 37 weeks of gestation had 23–100 times the mortality risk of infants born at full term and normal weight. Light‐for‐ge…
The prevalence of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican Americans
This study evaluated the prevalence of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican Americans compared with non-Hispanic Whites in the state of Arizona. Data came from all live birth certificates in 1986 and 1987. Rates of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican-American and non-Hispanic White infants in Arizona were lower than those in White infants in California. Differences in patterns of the 10th percentile growth distribution curves were ob…
Healthcare Use and Mammography Among Latinas With and Without Health Insurance Near the US-Mexico Border
Leading the Way Toward the Next 100 Years of Publishing
Acculturation and Risk Behavior among Pregnant Mexican American Females
The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model designed to predict risk behavior (i.e., cigarette and/or alcohol use) in a sample of Mexican American females who were pregnant and ranged in age from adolescence to early adulthood. The model consisted of six hypothesized predictors-acculturation status, intergenerational family conflict, acculturative stress, educational attainment, household income, and age of respondent, which were pr…
Ethnic Pride and Cardiovascular Health Among Mexican American Adults Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
This study addressed the association between items from the General Acculturation Index (GAI) and cardiovascular health. Specifically, we assessed whether ethnic pride was associated with health outcomes after controlling for items regarding language, place where the childhood was spent, and ethnic interaction. The study was a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and clinical data from a border population of Mexican American adults ( n = 316) …
Resolving Conflict
Prepared to Serve Public Health
Variation in early neonatal mortality for different types of fetal growth retardation
Birth and first‐48‐hr death records were analyzed for 10,024 liveborn infants in Mexico City and 12,786 liveborn infants in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The objective of the analysis was to characterize the early postnatal mortality rates for different types of fetal growth retardation and prematurity. Infants who were delivered prior to 37 weeks of gestation had 23–100 times the mortality risk of infants born at full term and normal weight. Light‐for‐ge…
The prevalence of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican Americans
This study evaluated the prevalence of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican Americans compared with non-Hispanic Whites in the state of Arizona. Data came from all live birth certificates in 1986 and 1987. Rates of intrauterine growth retardation in Mexican-American and non-Hispanic White infants in Arizona were lower than those in White infants in California. Differences in patterns of the 10th percentile growth distribution curves were ob…
Acculturation and low-birthweight infants among Latino women
Previous studies have demonstrated that acculturation is associated with negative birth outcomes among mothers in numerous immigrant populations, including Latinas. This study used structural equation models to reanalyze data employed in the 1989 Scribner and Dwyer study on the effect of acculturation (measured through the Cuellar scale) on mothers' low-birthweight status. Data revealed that language components dominate the effects of acculturati…
Acculturation and Family Cohesiveness in Mexican American Pregnent Women
This article describes a classification system based on acculturation status and family cohcsivcncss and examines the extent to which these variables may determine the degree of exposure to high acculturative stress, social isolation, and health-related risk behaviors among Mexican American pregnant women. Empirical data from the Arizona Perinatal Acculturation Project was used to test the presence of an acculturation effect, a family cohesivenes…
Heart Disease Education and Prevention Program Targeting Immigrant Latinos
Acculturation and Risk Behavior among Pregnant Mexican American Females
The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model designed to predict risk behavior (i.e., cigarette and/or alcohol use) in a sample of Mexican American females who were pregnant and ranged in age from adolescence to early adulthood. The model consisted of six hypothesized predictors-acculturation status, intergenerational family conflict, acculturative stress, educational attainment, household income, and age of respondent, which were pr…
Specifying the antecedents of breast-feeding duration in Peru through a structural equation model
Objective: To examine the effects of socioeconomic status and biocultural variables (planned pregnancy, prenatal care, timing of initiation of breast-feeding and caesarean section delivery) on breast-feeding duration in Peru using structural equation models. Design and setting: Structural equation models were analysed with LISREL using data from the 1991–92 Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey. Subjects: Models were tested among 6020 women whos…
Acculturation and Family Functioning Are Related to Health Risks Among Pregnant Mexican American Women
The authors examined the independent and interactive effects of acculturation status and family cohesiveness on a series of psychosocial and medical risk factors of pregnancy among 500 women of Mexican origin. In general, both higher and lower levels of acculturation produced positive or negative psychosocial and healthcare consequences, and the operative relationships depended heavily on the particular outcome chosen. Higher levels of family coh…
Development and Testing of Interview Questions to Determine Last Menstrual Period in Mexican Immigrant Populations
Health Issues in the Latino Communityxs
Use of Home Visit and Developmental Clinic Services by High Risk Mexican-American and White Non-Hispanic Infants
Prepared to Serve Public Health
Correlates of tobacco cessation counseling among Hispanic physicians in the US
More resources should be dedicated to training Hispanic physicians in tobacco intervention. Training may facilitate practice by increasing knowledge, developing skills and, ultimately, enhancing feelings of self-efficacy
Resolving Conflict
Place of Residence Modifies the Association Between Acculturation and Dietary Tools Knowledge Among Latina WIC Participants
Leading the Way Toward the Next 100 Years of Publishing
A Profile of US-Mexico Border Mobility Among a Stratified Random Sample of Hispanics Living in the El Paso-Juarez Area
Community Health Workers Can Be a Public Health Force for Change in the United States
Community health workers (CHWs) have gained increased visibility in the United States. We discuss how to strengthen the roles of CHWs to enable them to become collaborative leaders in dramatically changing health care from “sickness care” systems to systems that provide comprehensive care for individuals and families and supports community and tribal wellness. We recommend drawing on the full spectrum of CHWs’ roles so that they can make optimal …
Tuberculosis in Mexicans
BENJAMIN GOLDBERG, A dedicated physician working at the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, was a pioneer in introducing early accounts of the public health challenges imposed by a new racial “type”: Mexicans. His 1929 Journal article, excerpted here, was originally read before the American Public Health Association's Vital Statistic…
Ethnic Pride and Cardiovascular Health Among Mexican American Adults Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
This study addressed the association between items from the General Acculturation Index (GAI) and cardiovascular health. Specifically, we assessed whether ethnic pride was associated with health outcomes after controlling for items regarding language, place where the childhood was spent, and ethnic interaction. The study was a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and clinical data from a border population of Mexican American adults ( n = 316) …
Reporting Guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health ’s Adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Widespread recognition of the need to improve the science of published research, as well as the moral and ethical reasons for adequately reporting study results, has spurred recent interest in strengthening journal research reporting through the use of reporting guidelines. Reporting guidelines also provide information for readers to judge study quality. American Journal of Public Health previously adopted the Consolidated Standards of Reporting …
An Examination of the Association of Multiple Acculturation Measures with Asthma Status Among Elementary School Students in El Paso, Texas
Community health workers in Canada and the US
In this commentary, we address community health workers’ (CHWs) marginalized social location within the health care systems of Canada and the US. This marginalization is due, in part, to their being a workforce shaped by socio-structural factors, such as gender discrimination, racism, and poor socio-economic conditions. This marginalization challenges their ability to address health equity. We propose system-level and workforce-level policy chang…
Healthcare Use and Mammography Among Latinas With and Without Health Insurance Near the US-Mexico Border
Community Health Workers
Medicine (22 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Gerontology (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Public health (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Acculturation (7 works) · Ethnic group (7 works)