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40
Citations
6506
World Ranking
5376
National Ranking
2537

Overview

Steven P. Wallace was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focused on issues relating to social sciences and psychology, addressing complex intersections of migration, health, and societal factors.

The main fields of study in Wallace's work included:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Among the subfields, their research contributed to:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Gender Studies

Central topics covered in Wallace's publications involved:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Electronic Health Records Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating in their research included:

  • Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young
  • Lourdes R. Guerrero
  • May Sudhinaraset
  • Heather McCreath
  • Emily Vettese

Wallace published regularly in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Ethnicity & Disease
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • JAMA Network Open
  • International Migration Review

Some of their recent papers included:

  • "The Impact of COVID-19 on Diverse Older Adults and Health Equity in the United States," 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • "Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US," 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • "States with fewer criminalizing immigrant policies have smaller health care inequities between citizens and noncitizens," 2020, BMC Public Health
  • "Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States," 2022, International Migration Review
  • "A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health: A Research and Practice Agenda," 2021, American Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Variations in healthcare access and utilization among Mexican immigrants: the role of documentation status.

    Arturo Vargas Bustamante;Hai Fang;Jeremiah Garza;Olivia Carter-Pokras

  • Intersection of Living in a Rural Versus Urban Area and Race/Ethnicity in Explaining Access to Health Care in the United States.

    Julia T. Caldwell;Chandra L. Ford;Steven P. Wallace;May C. Wang

  • The health of aging lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in California

    Steven P Wallace;Susan D Cochran;Eva M Durazo;Chandra L Ford

  • The Persistence of Race and Ethnicity in the use of Long-Term Care

    Steven P. Wallace;Lene Levy-Storms;Raynard S. Kington;Ronald M. Andersen

  • Migration Circumstances, Psychological Distress, and Self-Rated Physical Health for Latino Immigrants in the United States

    Jacqueline M. Torres;Steven P. Wallace

  • Job stress and job satisfaction: home care workers in a consumer-directed model of care.

    Linda Delp;Steven P. Wallace;Jeanne Geiger-Brown;Carles Muntaner

  • Heading south: why Mexican immigrants in California seek health services in Mexico.

    Steven P. Wallace;Carolyn Mendez-Luck;Xóchitl Castañeda

  • Picture Imperfect: Hidden Problems Among Asian Pacific Islander Elderly

    Sora P. Tanjasiri;Steven P. Wallace;Kazue Shibata

  • Mandatory reporting of elder abuse: between a rock and a hard place.

    Michael A Rodríguez;Steven P Wallace;Nicholas H Woolf;Carol M Mangione

  • Service Utilization and Minority Elderly

    JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez;Steven Wallace;Raynard Kington Md

  • Health Care Access and Physical and Behavioral Health Among Undocumented Latinos in California.

    Alexander N. Ortega;Ryan M. McKenna;Jessie Kemmick Pintor;Brent A. Langellier

  • Structural Barriers to the Use of Formal In-Home Services by Elderly Latinos

    Steven P. Wallace;Kevin Campbell;Chih-yin Lew-Ting

  • Equity of access to health care for older adults in four major Latin American cities.

    Steven P Wallace;Verónica F Gutiérrez

  • The No-Care Zone: Availability, Accessibility, and Acceptability in Community-Based Long-Term Care

    Steven P. Wallace

  • Documentation Status and Parental Concerns About Development in Young US Children of Mexican Origin

    Alexander N. Ortega;Sarah M. Horwitz;Hai Fang;Alice A. Kuo

  • Assessing health care services used by California's undocumented immigrant population in 2010.

    Nadereh Pourat;Steven P. Wallace;Max W. Hadler;Ninez Ponce

  • Use of mammography screening among older Samoan women in Los Angeles county: a diffusion network approach.

    Lené Levy-Storms;Steven P Wallace

  • Access to paid in-home assistance among disabled elderly people: do Latinos differ from non-Latino whites?

    S P Wallace;L Levy-Storms;L R Ferguson

  • Concepts of burden in giving care to older relatives: a study of female caregivers in a Mexico City neighborhood.

    Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck;David P. Kennedy;Steven P. Wallace

  • Encyclopedia of Gerontology

    Kyriakos Markides;Laura Rudkin-Miniot;S. P. Wallace

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Rodriguez
Michael A. Rodriguez University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald M. Andersen
Ronald M. Andersen University of California, Los Angeles
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Peter A. Newman
Peter A. Newman University of Toronto
Ninez A. Ponce
Ninez A. Ponce University of California, Los Angeles
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Kenneth I. Maton
Kenneth I. Maton University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Carol S. Aneshensel
Carol S. Aneshensel University of California, Los Angeles
Carol M. Mangione
Carol M. Mangione University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Weech-Maldonado
Robert Weech-Maldonado University of Alabama at Birmingham

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