Andrew M Subica
Biographic Data
| ID | 907371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew M Subica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Subica |
| SIGNATURE | SUBICA A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6424-7668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Individual and Familial Risk and Promotive Factors for Substance Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults
Background: Multiracial American adults have the highest rates of binge drinking and illicit drug use of all racial groups, yet little is known about the risk and promotive factors that contribute to their substance use. Objectives: This study examines how individual factors (i.e., shifting racial expressions, perceived racial ambiguity, creating third space, self-esteem, depression) and family cohesion relate to substance use among 574 Multiraci…
Structural Competence in Social Work
This article reviews the concept of structural competence as a powerful analytic tool to advance social work education and improve social work pedagogy, practice, and research. Structural competence offers a promising avenue for improving approaches to understanding and addressing the root causes of the social, economic, and health disparities affecting social work clients and historically marginalized communities. A tailored social work definiti…
Loneliness, Mental Health, and Suicidality in Japan, and the Protective Role of Mattering: A National Panel Survey
Covid-19-Related and general racial discrimination and mental health in Asian Americans
The study found that a notable proportion of AA respondents reported experiencing both COVID-19-related and general racial discrimination, and highlights the potential adverse impact of racial discrimination on AA mental health. These findings underscore the importance of examining and reducing anti-Asian discrimination experiences to improve the mental health and well-being of AA populations
Adult Familial Influences on Rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youths’ E-Cigarette Use
Background: Over the past decade, youth e-cigarette use has grown into a national epidemic, with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) youths’ rates among some of the highest in the nation. Family factors significantly contribute to NHPI youths’ decisions to engage in or resist substance use, yet few studies have specifically examined familial influences on NHPI youths’ substance use decision-making and behaviors. Objective: The objective o…
Trauma and mental health in Pacific Islanders
BACKGROUND: Little is known about trauma and its mental health impact on Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NH/PI), an understudied Indigenous-colonized population that endures severe mental health disparities. AIMS: This novel investigation assessed trauma prevalence and its mental health and substance use correlates in NH/PIs in the U.S. METHOD: Using community-based participatory research methods, survey data on NH/PI trauma, depression, anxi…
Exploring Youths’ Offers to Use E-Cigarettes in Rural Hawai‘i: A Test Development and Validation Study
The purpose of this study is to describe the development and initial validation of a survey focused on problematic situations involving e-cigarette use by rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) youths. A 5-phase approach to test development and validation was used. In Phase 1 (Item Generation), survey items were created from a series of focus groups with middle school youths on Hawai'i Island ( N = 69). In Phase 2 (Item Refinement and …
Mental Illness Stigma in Black, Latina/o, and Asian Americans
Mental illness stigma has significant psychiatric consequences and can impede mental health treatment seeking, especially among racial minority groups; who are understudied in stigma research and experience striking treatment disparities. Guided by a novel empirical model of racial minority stigma and treatment seeking, this study investigated stigma and its effects on treatment seeking in Black, Latina/o, and Asian American adults. Data were col…
Examining neighbourhood-level disparities in Black, Latina/o, Asian, and White physical health, mental health, chronic conditions, and social disadvantage in California
Racial/ethnic minority individuals in the U.S. experience numerous health disparities versus Whites, often due to differences in social determinants. Yet, limited large-scale research has examined these differences at the neighbourhood level. We merged 2021 PLACES Project and 2020 American Community Survey data across 3,211 census tracts (neighbourhoods) defined as majority (>50%) Black, Latina/o, Asian or White. T-tests and hierarchical linear r…
CRISPR in Public Health: The Health Equity Implications and Role of Community in Gene-Editing Research and Applications
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a Nobel Prize–winning technology that holds significant promise for revolutionizing the prevention and treatment of human disease through gene editing. However, CRISPR’s public health implications remain relatively uncertain and underdiscussed because (1) targeting genetic factors alone will have limited influence on population health, and (2) minority populations (racial/ethni…
The Mental Health, Substance Use, Physical Health, and Mental Health Treatment Need of Community Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in Hawai‘i
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities
In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction,…
Refocusing Intersectionality in Social Work Education: Creating a Brave Space to Discuss Oppression and Privilege
In this article, we argue that those in social work education should refocus how they conceptualize and teach intersectionality to produce more effective social work practitioners. We emphasize that social work should shift from educating students to evaluate diverse clients as the accumulation of individual identities operating in isolation (e.g., race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) to recognizing how these identities intersect to inf…
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, mental health and treatment need in the United States during Covid ‐19
Alcohol Use Disorder Risk and Protective Factors and Associated Harms Among Pacific Islander Young Adults
Citizenship Matters: Non-Citizen Covid-19 Mortality Disparities in New York and Los Angeles
U.S. non-citizen residents are burdened by inequitable access to socioeconomic resources, potentially placing them at heightened risk of COVID-19-related disparities. However, COVID-19 impacts on non-citizens are not well understood. Accordingly, the current study investigated COVID-19 mortality disparities within New York (NYC) and Los Angeles (LAC) to test our hypothesis that areas with large proportions of non-citizens will have disproportiona…
Community participation differences between Black and White adults with serious mental illness
799) were analyzed from studies involving Black and White adults with SMI using the Temple University Community Participation Measure. Regression analyses were conducted to identify potential differences in four areas: amount of participation in a variety of community activities; number of activities participants deemed important; number of important activities actually performed; and the percentage of important activities performed as much as de…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Health of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander People in the United States, 2021
Our empirical findings highlight the acute and understudied negative impact of COVID-19 on NH/PI communities in the United States and suggest new avenues for improving NH/PI community health, vaccination, and recovery from COVID-19
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities
Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (e.g., Indigenous, immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite co-occurring advancements in health and medicine. Fundamental cause theory holds that important social factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, stigma, racism) produce health disparities by restricting equitable access to health-protective resources. Yet, extant literatu…
Electronic Cigarette Use and Associated Risk Factors in U.S.-Dwelling Pacific Islander Young Adults
Background: E-cigarette use is rapidly increasing among US young adults, heightening their risk for vaping-related illnesses. Yet, little is known about e-cigarette use among young adult Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI): an indigenous-colonized US racial group rarely described in research literature. This exploratory study provides the first known data on e-cigarette use and potential risk factors in NHPI young adults. Method: Self-r…
Addressing Health Disparities Through Deliberative Methods: Citizens’ Panels for Health Equity
Health disparities adversely affect millions of people living in disadvantaged communities, resisting public health interventions that do not address the specific conditions, driving forces, or health problems in these communities. Drawing from the underutilized science of deliberative methods, we introduce the innovative citizens’ panels for health equity approach—a novel methodology that engages public expertise and knowledge of community healt…
Hazardous drinking, alcohol use disorders, and need for treatment among Pacific Islander young adults
Pacific Islander (PI) young adults are suspected to bear heavy risk for hazardous drinking, alcohol use disorders (AUD), and alcohol-related harms. Yet, PIs remain among the most understudied racial groups in the United States-creating a lack of empirical data documenting their alcohol use problems and treatment needs. The present study presents the first known data on PI young adults' hazardous drinking, possible AUDs, alcohol-related harms, and…
Sleep quality partially mediates the association between type 2 diabetes and psychological distress in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults in the United States: Analysis of the 2014 National H…
Addressing mental health challenges of Samoan Americans in Southern California: Perspectives of Samoan community providers
While a variety of health concerns have been documented, little is presently known about the mental health challenges facing Samoan Americans in Southern California. This community-based research study investigated the perspectives of Samoan healthcare providers affiliated with two Los Angeles County agencies regarding: 1) mental health challenges; 2) obstacles to use of formal services to address mental health concerns, and 3) recommendations an…
Public Health Interventions in the Era of Childhood Obesity and Other Racial Health Disparities
AffiliationsAndrew M. Subica is with the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities
Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (e.g., Indigenous, immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite co-occurring advancements in health and medicine. Fundamental cause theory holds that important social factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, stigma, racism) produce health disparities by restricting equitable access to health-protective resources. Yet, extant literatu…
Culture, Racial Socialization, and Positive African American Youth Development
Positive youth development is critical for African American youth as they negotiate a social, political, and historical landscape grounded in systemic inequities and racism. One possible, yet understudied, approach to promote positive youth development is to increase African American youth consciousness and connection to their Africentric values and culture. The primary purpose of this article was to investigate the degree to which cultural and g…
Empowerment Praxis: Community Organizing to Redress Systemic Health Disparities
Social and environmental determinants of childhood obesity present a public health dilemma, particularly in low‐income communities of color. Case studies of two community‐based organizations participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) childhood obesity initiative demonstrate multilevel, culturally situated community organizing strategies to address the root causes of this public health di…
Communities of Color Creating Healthy Environments to Combat Childhood Obesity
Ethnic and racial health disparities present an enduring challenge to community-based health promotion, which rarely targets their underlying population-level determinants (e.g., poverty, food insecurity, health care inequity). We present a novel 3-lens prescription for using community organizing to treat these determinants in communities of color based on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Communities Creating Healthy Environments initiative, …
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities
In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction,…
Addressing Health Disparities Through Deliberative Methods: Citizens’ Panels for Health Equity
Health disparities adversely affect millions of people living in disadvantaged communities, resisting public health interventions that do not address the specific conditions, driving forces, or health problems in these communities. Drawing from the underutilized science of deliberative methods, we introduce the innovative citizens’ panels for health equity approach—a novel methodology that engages public expertise and knowledge of community healt…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Health of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander People in the United States, 2021
Our empirical findings highlight the acute and understudied negative impact of COVID-19 on NH/PI communities in the United States and suggest new avenues for improving NH/PI community health, vaccination, and recovery from COVID-19
Public Health Interventions in the Era of Childhood Obesity and Other Racial Health Disparities
AffiliationsAndrew M. Subica is with the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside
Empowerment Praxis: Community Organizing to Redress Systemic Health Disparities
Social and environmental determinants of childhood obesity present a public health dilemma, particularly in low‐income communities of color. Case studies of two community‐based organizations participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) childhood obesity initiative demonstrate multilevel, culturally situated community organizing strategies to address the root causes of this public health di…
Communities of Color Creating Healthy Environments to Combat Childhood Obesity
Ethnic and racial health disparities present an enduring challenge to community-based health promotion, which rarely targets their underlying population-level determinants (e.g., poverty, food insecurity, health care inequity). We present a novel 3-lens prescription for using community organizing to treat these determinants in communities of color based on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Communities Creating Healthy Environments initiative, …
Culture, Racial Socialization, and Positive African American Youth Development
Positive youth development is critical for African American youth as they negotiate a social, political, and historical landscape grounded in systemic inequities and racism. One possible, yet understudied, approach to promote positive youth development is to increase African American youth consciousness and connection to their Africentric values and culture. The primary purpose of this article was to investigate the degree to which cultural and g…
Public Health Interventions in the Era of Childhood Obesity and Other Racial Health Disparities
AffiliationsAndrew M. Subica is with the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside
Sleep quality partially mediates the association between type 2 diabetes and psychological distress in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults in the United States: Analysis of the 2014 National H…
Addressing mental health challenges of Samoan Americans in Southern California: Perspectives of Samoan community providers
While a variety of health concerns have been documented, little is presently known about the mental health challenges facing Samoan Americans in Southern California. This community-based research study investigated the perspectives of Samoan healthcare providers affiliated with two Los Angeles County agencies regarding: 1) mental health challenges; 2) obstacles to use of formal services to address mental health concerns, and 3) recommendations an…
Electronic Cigarette Use and Associated Risk Factors in U.S.-Dwelling Pacific Islander Young Adults
Background: E-cigarette use is rapidly increasing among US young adults, heightening their risk for vaping-related illnesses. Yet, little is known about e-cigarette use among young adult Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI): an indigenous-colonized US racial group rarely described in research literature. This exploratory study provides the first known data on e-cigarette use and potential risk factors in NHPI young adults. Method: Self-r…
Addressing Health Disparities Through Deliberative Methods: Citizens’ Panels for Health Equity
Health disparities adversely affect millions of people living in disadvantaged communities, resisting public health interventions that do not address the specific conditions, driving forces, or health problems in these communities. Drawing from the underutilized science of deliberative methods, we introduce the innovative citizens’ panels for health equity approach—a novel methodology that engages public expertise and knowledge of community healt…
Hazardous drinking, alcohol use disorders, and need for treatment among Pacific Islander young adults
Pacific Islander (PI) young adults are suspected to bear heavy risk for hazardous drinking, alcohol use disorders (AUD), and alcohol-related harms. Yet, PIs remain among the most understudied racial groups in the United States-creating a lack of empirical data documenting their alcohol use problems and treatment needs. The present study presents the first known data on PI young adults' hazardous drinking, possible AUDs, alcohol-related harms, and…
Refocusing Intersectionality in Social Work Education: Creating a Brave Space to Discuss Oppression and Privilege
In this article, we argue that those in social work education should refocus how they conceptualize and teach intersectionality to produce more effective social work practitioners. We emphasize that social work should shift from educating students to evaluate diverse clients as the accumulation of individual identities operating in isolation (e.g., race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) to recognizing how these identities intersect to inf…
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, mental health and treatment need in the United States during Covid ‐19
Alcohol Use Disorder Risk and Protective Factors and Associated Harms Among Pacific Islander Young Adults
Citizenship Matters: Non-Citizen Covid-19 Mortality Disparities in New York and Los Angeles
U.S. non-citizen residents are burdened by inequitable access to socioeconomic resources, potentially placing them at heightened risk of COVID-19-related disparities. However, COVID-19 impacts on non-citizens are not well understood. Accordingly, the current study investigated COVID-19 mortality disparities within New York (NYC) and Los Angeles (LAC) to test our hypothesis that areas with large proportions of non-citizens will have disproportiona…
Community participation differences between Black and White adults with serious mental illness
799) were analyzed from studies involving Black and White adults with SMI using the Temple University Community Participation Measure. Regression analyses were conducted to identify potential differences in four areas: amount of participation in a variety of community activities; number of activities participants deemed important; number of important activities actually performed; and the percentage of important activities performed as much as de…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Health of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander People in the United States, 2021
Our empirical findings highlight the acute and understudied negative impact of COVID-19 on NH/PI communities in the United States and suggest new avenues for improving NH/PI community health, vaccination, and recovery from COVID-19
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities
Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (e.g., Indigenous, immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite co-occurring advancements in health and medicine. Fundamental cause theory holds that important social factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, stigma, racism) produce health disparities by restricting equitable access to health-protective resources. Yet, extant literatu…
Examining neighbourhood-level disparities in Black, Latina/o, Asian, and White physical health, mental health, chronic conditions, and social disadvantage in California
Racial/ethnic minority individuals in the U.S. experience numerous health disparities versus Whites, often due to differences in social determinants. Yet, limited large-scale research has examined these differences at the neighbourhood level. We merged 2021 PLACES Project and 2020 American Community Survey data across 3,211 census tracts (neighbourhoods) defined as majority (>50%) Black, Latina/o, Asian or White. T-tests and hierarchical linear r…
CRISPR in Public Health: The Health Equity Implications and Role of Community in Gene-Editing Research and Applications
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a Nobel Prize–winning technology that holds significant promise for revolutionizing the prevention and treatment of human disease through gene editing. However, CRISPR’s public health implications remain relatively uncertain and underdiscussed because (1) targeting genetic factors alone will have limited influence on population health, and (2) minority populations (racial/ethni…
The Mental Health, Substance Use, Physical Health, and Mental Health Treatment Need of Community Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in Hawai‘i
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities
In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction,…
Adult Familial Influences on Rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youths’ E-Cigarette Use
Background: Over the past decade, youth e-cigarette use has grown into a national epidemic, with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) youths’ rates among some of the highest in the nation. Family factors significantly contribute to NHPI youths’ decisions to engage in or resist substance use, yet few studies have specifically examined familial influences on NHPI youths’ substance use decision-making and behaviors. Objective: The objective o…
Trauma and mental health in Pacific Islanders
BACKGROUND: Little is known about trauma and its mental health impact on Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NH/PI), an understudied Indigenous-colonized population that endures severe mental health disparities. AIMS: This novel investigation assessed trauma prevalence and its mental health and substance use correlates in NH/PIs in the U.S. METHOD: Using community-based participatory research methods, survey data on NH/PI trauma, depression, anxi…
Exploring Youths’ Offers to Use E-Cigarettes in Rural Hawai‘i: A Test Development and Validation Study
The purpose of this study is to describe the development and initial validation of a survey focused on problematic situations involving e-cigarette use by rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) youths. A 5-phase approach to test development and validation was used. In Phase 1 (Item Generation), survey items were created from a series of focus groups with middle school youths on Hawai'i Island ( N = 69). In Phase 2 (Item Refinement and …
Mental Illness Stigma in Black, Latina/o, and Asian Americans
Mental illness stigma has significant psychiatric consequences and can impede mental health treatment seeking, especially among racial minority groups; who are understudied in stigma research and experience striking treatment disparities. Guided by a novel empirical model of racial minority stigma and treatment seeking, this study investigated stigma and its effects on treatment seeking in Black, Latina/o, and Asian American adults. Data were col…
Individual and Familial Risk and Promotive Factors for Substance Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults
Background: Multiracial American adults have the highest rates of binge drinking and illicit drug use of all racial groups, yet little is known about the risk and promotive factors that contribute to their substance use. Objectives: This study examines how individual factors (i.e., shifting racial expressions, perceived racial ambiguity, creating third space, self-esteem, depression) and family cohesion relate to substance use among 574 Multiraci…
Medicine (22 works) · Environmental health (18 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Public health (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Population (9 works)