Ronald J Angel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97085 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronald J Angel |
| PRENOMES | Ronald J |
| SOBRENOME | Angel |
| ASSINATURA | ANGEL R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 952 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Healthy Life Expectancy
The phrase “compression of morbidity” refers to a hypothetical morbidity and mortality regime in which the onset of chronic disease is postponed until shortly before death, largely though preventative medical interventions and lifestyle changes, reducing the length of time one lives with illness and disability. Although life spans have increased dramatically in the latter part of the twentieth century, evidence for a significant compression of mo…
Chino
Reservation Lands as a Protective Social Factor
The unique physical, cultural, and ecological location of U.S. American Indian reservations simultaneously presents risks for mental health and offers sources of resilience to Native peoples. Using survey data from two American Indian tribes, we explore whether the length of one's life spent on a reservation is associated with lower odds of psychological distress. In both tribes, we find that individuals who live a vast majority of their lives on…
Illness Behavior
While the phrase “health behavior” refers to behaviors that individuals engage in to maintain health, the phrase “illness behavior” has been used to refer to the responses that individuals engage in after they become ill, presumably in an effort to get well. Many classic theoretical attempts to understand this process focused on what was conceived of as the illness career or the sick role. These theories (and later approaches) attempted to unders…
Institutional Context of Family Eldercare in Mexico and the United States
Immigration and population
Acculturation, Gender, and Active Life Expectancy in the Mexican-Origin Population
Although foreign-born elders live slightly longer lives, they do so with more years spent in a disabled state. Given the rapid aging of the Mexican-origin population, the prevention and treatment of disabilities, particularly among the foreign born, should be a major public health priority
Making a life in multiethnic Miami
As the title implies Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami addresses several central themes related to processes that define our post-industrial, post-traditional world. Globalization is largely synon
Longer Lives, Sicker Lives? Increased Longevity and Extended Disability Among Mexican-Origin Elders
Protracted morbidity that accompanies increases in life expectancy has serious implications for the physical, social, and economic well-being of older individuals and their families, as well as for health and long-term care policy
Nativity Status and Sources of Care Assistance Among Elderly Mexican-Origin Adults
Retirement Security for Black, Non-Hispanic White, and Mexican-Origin Women
Changing family patterns and high rates of marital instability mean that women are increasingly responsible for their own retirement security. In this study we compare private retirement coverage among pre-retirement age people using multiple years of the Current Population Survey. We find that women are less likely than men to participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Married women are at highest risk of lacking coverage. Minority grou…
The Transformation of Solidarity
This study investigates the consequences of processes of social individualisation and economic globalisation for welfare state solidarity. Solidarity is defined as the willingness to share risks. The institutions of the welfare state, such as social security or health care insurance, are founded on the willingness of citizens to share risks and organize solidarity between the young and the old, between the healthy and the sick, between the workin…
The rise of ethnic politics in Latin America
Ethnic conflict and politics manifest themselves differently in various parts of the world and raise questions concerning the primordial nature of ethnic identity. At their worst, historically grou
River of hope
Boundaries define geographic, political, cultural and social spaces. By dividing up such spaces they differentiate between insiders and outsiders and structure interactions among individuals, commu
After Babel
Ethnic heterogamy and the risk of partner violence in Mexico
A common stereotype holds that in Mexico male violence toward women is common among indigenous peoples and reflects cultural norms that sanction a male's domination of his female partner. We employ a recent Mexican survey to examine the relative risk of violence against women as a function of the couple's ethnic homogamy. Among couples in which both partners are either non-indigenous or indigenous the female's risk of partner violence is similar.…
Community Lost
Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary…
Beyond Borders
We employ two surveys to identify similarities and differences in the risk of abuse among poor urban Mexican-origin women in the United States and Mexico. While the two surveys reveal basic structural similarity in the predictors of partner violence, the rate of violence among Mexican women is far lower than among either foreign-born or native-born Mexican origin women in the United States. While these differences may reflect reality, we argue th…
A response to the commentaries by Craddock and Fotaki
Border Dilemmas
Anthony P. Mora, BORDER DILEMMAS: RACIAL AND NATIONAL UNCERTAINTIES IN NEW MEXICO, 1848–1912, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, xii + 379 pp., $24.95 (paper) The boundaries that separate and
Agency versus structure
The Rural-Urban Divide
CONTEXT: Mexico. PURPOSE: Using the health care service utilization model as a framework, this paper will analyze the differences in health care service use among older Mexicans living in urban and rural areas in Mexico. METHODS: The Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS) data were used to test the applicability of Andersen's "model of health services" of predisposing (ie, age, sex, etc.), enabling (education, insurance coverage, etc.) and need f…
Portraits of persistence
Women of rendezvous
Tensions in diversity
Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortality was tested with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adult NHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom data from a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interview and survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated health consists o…
Determinants of Extended Household Structure
This research examines th relationship between household composition and sources of household income among Hispanics, blacks, and non-Hispanic whites. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which extended living arrangements help buffer the effect of labor market disadvantages faced by minority household heads. Results of logit and regression analyses indicate that differences in the prevalence of extented family households reflect primarily …
Neighborhood Disorder, Psychophysiological Distress, and Health
How do neighborhoods affect the health of residents? We propose that the impact of neighborhood disorder on self-reported health is mediated by psychological and physiological distress. We hypothesize a stress process in which chronic stressors in the environment give rise to a psychological and physiological stress response that ultimately affects health. The exogenous variable of interest is the neighborhood where disadvantaged persons live, wh…
Mind, body, and culture
Neighborhood disorder, psychological distress, and heavy drinking
The factor structure of the CES-D in the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey
Social demands, social supports, and psychological distress among low-income women
We investigate the association between social demands and psychological distress among low-income women. We argue that perceptions of excessive social demands can be psychologically distressing and examine the extent to which social demands predict psychological distress over 2 years. Our results reveal several important patterns. First, emotional, but not instrumental, demands are positively associated with psychological distress. Second, emotio…
Headship and Household Composition among Blacks, Hispanics, and Other Whites
Differences in the prevalence of extended living arrangements are examined among black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white female-headed and husband/wife households to evaluate the relative merit of the cultural equivalent and cultural variant explanations of extended structure. Results based on logit analyses indicate that the greater prevalence of extended household structure among Hispanics and blacks is related both to cultural circumstances th…
The Analysis of Relationships Involving Dichotomous Dependent Variables
Longer Lives, Sicker Lives? Increased Longevity and Extended Disability Among Mexican-Origin Elders
Protracted morbidity that accompanies increases in life expectancy has serious implications for the physical, social, and economic well-being of older individuals and their families, as well as for health and long-term care policy
Financial Strain and Health among Elderly Mexican-Origin Individuals
In this paper we examine the associations among perceived financial strain and various health measures--including self-rated health, self-reported functional capacity, performance-based mobility, and mortality--in a sample of older Mexican-origin individuals. We employ the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly, an eight-year longitudinal survey of over 3,000 Mexican-origin individuals in five southwestern stat…
Age at Migration, Social Connections, and Well-Being among Elderly Hispanics
This study employs data from the 1988 National Survey of Hispanic Elderly People to examine the impact of age at migration and social contacts on the self-assessed health, functional disability, and life satisfaction of elderly Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans in the United States. The results indicate that the difficulties associated with immigration late in life undermine an older person's morale and interfere with the abil…
The Use of Subjective Information in Statistical Models
This paper examines problems that arise in using self-reports of subjective information as predictors in mathematical models. The analysis demonstrates that the social construction of such subjective information makes its use in comparative analysis problematic since both its accuracy and the outcome for which it is employed as a predictor are influenced by the respondent's culture and social location. We argue that subjective information is soci…
Single Motherhood and Children's Health
This analysis employs the recently released Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (hispanic HANES) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (NHANES) to determine the effect of a mother's marital status on her report of her child's health for Mexican-American, black, and non-Hispanic white children aged 6 months to 11 years. The results reveal that single mothers report poorer overall physical health for their childre…
Shorter Stay, Longer Life
Our findings suggest that standard risk pools may differ significantly on the basis of genetic and unmeasured life-course factors. A better understanding of the late-life immigrant mortality advantage has important implications for more effective and targeted social and medical interventions
Religious Attendance and Cognitive Functioning Among Older Mexican Americans
Research shows that social engagement reduces the probability of cognitive decline in late life. The purpose of this study was to test whether religious attendance, a major source of social engagement for many older individuals, is associated with slower rates of cognitive decline among older Mexican Americans. Using four waves of data collected from a sample of 3,050 older Mexican-origin individuals, we estimated a series of linear growth curve …
Religious Involvement and Attitudes Toward Parenting Among Low-Income Urban Women
The authors employ data from the Welfare, Children, and Families project, a probability sample of 2,402 low-income women with children living in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, to test whether religious attendance is associated with parental satisfaction, perceived parental demands, and parental distress over 2 years. They also consider three potential mediators of the association between religious attendance and att…
Stability and Change in Health Insurance Among Older Mexican Americans
Objectives. This study examined the association between health insurance coverage, medical care use, limitations in activities of daily living, and mortality among older Mexican-origin individuals. Methods. We analyzed longitudinal data from the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (H-EPESE). Results. The uninsured tend to be younger, female, poor, and foreign born. They report fewer health care visits, are less…
Employment, Marriage, and Inequality in Health Insurance for Mexican-Origin Women
In the United States, a woman's health insurance coverage is largely determined by her employment and marital roles. This research evaluates competing hypotheses regarding how the combination of employment and marital roles shapes insurance coverage among Mexican-origin, non-Hispanic white, and African American women. We use data from the 2004 and 2006 March Supplements to the Current Population Surveys. Results show that these roles largely subs…
Poverty and Health
This analysis uses the 1984 Survey on Aging (SOA) supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to compare the relative impacts of poverty and health on the propensity of unmarried older black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white women to live with family. The results reveal that for blacks and Hispanics, economics are more significant than health in determining whether a woman lives with her children. Our findings also show that black u…
After Babel
Immigrants and Welfare
The Risk of Partner Violence Among Low-Income Hispanic Subgroups
Women with few social resources are at elevated risk of partner abuse. Certain evidence suggests that African American and Hispanic women, who are overrepresented in the lower socioeconomic strata, are at particularly high risk. We compare women's risk of partner violence, defined as moderate and severe, among 2,400 low-income African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic Whites from "Welfare, Children and Families: A Three City Study" and find th…
Risk and Selection Processes between the General and the Specialty Mental Health Sectors
This paper examines risk, defined as the threat of danger or disruption, as a contextual concept important for understanding patterns of patient selection and referral. We explore the hypothesis that risks associated with mental disorder, as represented by factors such as thoughts about suicide or problems associated with drinking, increase the probability of referral of patients receiving mental health care from general medical practitioners to …
Minority Group Status and Healthful Aging
During the last 4 decades, a rapid increase has occurred in the number of survey-based and epidemiological studies of the health profiles of adults in general and of the causes of disparities between majority and minority Americans in particular. According to these studies, healthful aging consists of the absence of disease, or at least of the most serious preventable diseases and their consequences, and findings consistently reveal serious Afric…
Headship and Household Composition among Blacks, Hispanics, and Other Whites
Differences in the prevalence of extended living arrangements are examined among black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white female-headed and husband/wife households to evaluate the relative merit of the cultural equivalent and cultural variant explanations of extended structure. Results based on logit analyses indicate that the greater prevalence of extended household structure among Hispanics and blacks is related both to cultural circumstances th…
Determinants of Extended Household Structure
This research examines th relationship between household composition and sources of household income among Hispanics, blacks, and non-Hispanic whites. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which extended living arrangements help buffer the effect of labor market disadvantages faced by minority household heads. Results of logit and regression analyses indicate that differences in the prevalence of extented family households reflect primarily …
The Analysis of Relationships Involving Dichotomous Dependent Variables
The impact of culture on the cognitive structure of illness
The Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Mental Health
Some Factors Associated with the Report and Evaluation of Back Pain
The Use of Subjective Information in Statistical Models
This paper examines problems that arise in using self-reports of subjective information as predictors in mathematical models. The analysis demonstrates that the social construction of such subjective information makes its use in comparative analysis problematic since both its accuracy and the outcome for which it is employed as a predictor are influenced by the respondent's culture and social location. We argue that subjective information is soci…
Single Motherhood and Children's Health
This analysis employs the recently released Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (hispanic HANES) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (NHANES) to determine the effect of a mother's marital status on her report of her child's health for Mexican-American, black, and non-Hispanic white children aged 6 months to 11 years. The results reveal that single mothers report poorer overall physical health for their childre…
Prolonged Connections
The factor structure of the CES-D in the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey
Mind, body, and culture
Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortality was tested with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adult NHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom data from a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interview and survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated health consists o…
Poverty and Health
This analysis uses the 1984 Survey on Aging (SOA) supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to compare the relative impacts of poverty and health on the propensity of unmarried older black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white women to live with family. The results reveal that for blacks and Hispanics, economics are more significant than health in determining whether a woman lives with her children. Our findings also show that black u…
Risk and Selection Processes between the General and the Specialty Mental Health Sectors
This paper examines risk, defined as the threat of danger or disruption, as a contextual concept important for understanding patterns of patient selection and referral. We explore the hypothesis that risks associated with mental disorder, as represented by factors such as thoughts about suicide or problems associated with drinking, increase the probability of referral of patients receiving mental health care from general medical practitioners to …
Age at Migration, Social Connections, and Well-Being among Elderly Hispanics
This study employs data from the 1988 National Survey of Hispanic Elderly People to examine the impact of age at migration and social contacts on the self-assessed health, functional disability, and life satisfaction of elderly Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans in the United States. The results indicate that the difficulties associated with immigration late in life undermine an older person's morale and interfere with the abil…
The Impacts of Farm Work on Health
Peter J. Guarnaccia, Jacqueline Lowe Angel, Ronald Angel, The Impacts of Farm Work on Health: Analyses of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, The International Migration Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 111-132
The Impacts of Farm Work on Health
Farmworkers long have been recognized as a disadvantaged group with a wide range of occupationally related health problems. A coherent picture of the major health problems faced by agricultural workers has begun to emerge. This study presents data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) on the effects of ever having participated in farm work on health status. Thus, it provides the first national level perspective on the…
Correlates of using mental health services
BACKGROUND. Studies using varying definitions of mental health visits result in widely divergent estimates. This analysis examines the stability of a predictive model using three varying definitions based on provider type, diagnosis, psychotherapy, and psychotropic medication use. METHODS. Interview and questionnaire data and claims records from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment are used to test these models among 3138 enrollees. RESULTS. Esti…
A Brief Reflection on Measurement and Modeling
I find myself in a peculiar situation as a reviewer of the preceding article, as did the editor of this esteemed journal when two reviewers recommended publication of the manuscript largely as it appears here, while I recommended publication only if the analysis was significantly (very significantly) simplified to bring it into conformity with the quality of the data. Let me begin by saying that I am entirely in agreement with the process of blin…
Painful Inheritance
Painful is the first comprehensive examination of the impact of single motherhood on the physical and mental health of women and their children. Based on solid scientific information, it documents serious, long-term health consequences associated with the poverty and social disorganization in which such families often live. Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel show that the elevated health risks associated with single motherhood are largely th…
Painful Inheritance
Painful Inheritance
Contextualizing Social Support and Health in Old Age
In this paper we develop a conceptual model of the cultural context within which gender and social support affect health among the elderly. We argue that given the highly contextualized and subjective nature of social support, observed associations between social contacts and health cannot be explained using simple survey probes concerning contacts during some period. The research employs two large surveys of older blacks and Hispanics to illustr…
Who will Care for Us? Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America
Aging trends – Mexican Americans in the Southwestern USA
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