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Alexander N. Ortega
Researcher at Drexel University
Publications - 128
Citations - 7932
Alexander N. Ortega is an academic researcher from Drexel University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Public health. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 120 publications receiving 7081 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander N. Ortega include Oregon Health & Science University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participants
TL;DR: This work characterized the current state of this literature, discussing implications for future research needs and directions, and identified 95 studies published between January 1999 and April 2005 describing methods of increasing minority enrollment and retention in research studies.
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Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites
Margarita Alegría,Glorisa Canino,Ruth Ríos,Mildred Vera,Jose G. Calderon,Dana B. Rusch,Alexander N. Ortega +6 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that poor Latinos (family income of less than $15,000) have lower access to specialty care than poor non-Latino whites, and African Americans who were not classified as poor were less likely to receive specialty care, even after adjustment for demographic characteristics, insurance status, and psychiatric morbidity.
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Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences Among Undocumented Mexicans and Other Latinos
Alexander N. Ortega,Hai Fang,Victor H. Perez,John A. Rizzo,Olivia Carter-Pokras,Steven P. Wallace,Lillian Gelberg +6 more
TL;DR: In this large sample, undocumented Mexicans and other undocumented Latinos reported less use of health care services and poorer experiences with care compared with their US-born counterparts, after adjustment for confounders in multivariate analyses.
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Acculturation and the lifetime risk of psychiatric and substance use disorders among Hispanics.
TL;DR: There is likely to be an increasing prevalence of psychiatric and substance use disorders among Hispanics that may be attributable to increasing levels of acculturation among the more than 5 million recent immigrants from Latin America.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Access and Utilization Under the Affordable Care Act
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that racial and ethnic disparities in access have been reduced significantly during the initial years of the ACA implementation that expanded access and mandated that individuals obtain health insurance.