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.....Wallace, Steven P., Valentine Villa. "Caught in Hostile Cross-Fire: Public Policy and Minority Elderly in the United States." Pp. 397-420 in Kyriakos Markides and Manuel Miranda, (Eds.) Minorities, Aging, and Health. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997. Argues that most health policy for the elderly fails to take into account the distinctive health and SES statuses of racial and ethnic minority elderly. Describes how changes in the U.S. economy generates a scapegoating of minorities and immigrants, and how the changing health care system is driven as much by economics as the health needs of the elderly. It analyzes the possible consequences of those changes for minority elderly.
.....Wallace, Steven P., Emily Abel, Pam Stefanowitz. "Race, Class, Gender and Long-term Care." Pp. 180-201 In Ronald Andersen, Tom Rice, Gerald Kominsky, (Eds.), Beyond Health Care Reform: Key Issues in Policy and Management. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 1996. Provides a comprehensive overview of the long-term care system in the United States, with particular attention to how the needs for care and the receipt of LTC vary by race, class, and gender.
.....Markides, Kyriakos S, Steven P. Wallace. "Health and long-term care needs of ethnic minority elders." Pp. 23-42 in J.C. Romeis, R.M. Coe, and J.E. Morley, (Eds.), Applying Health Services Research to Long-Term Care. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1996. Provides a summary of the mortality experience of the major ethnic & racial groups, and describes the disability status and LTC needs of those groups.
.....Wallace, Steven P., Ronald Andersen, Len‚ Levy Storms, Raynard Kington. "The Impact by Race of Changing Long-term Care Policy." Journal of Aging and Social Policy. 9:3 (1997),1-20. Examines the use of long-term care by older African-Americans and models the consequences for them if public programs that cover long-term care expand to cover more community-based care, or contract as a result of Medicaid cuts.
.....Villa, Valentine, Steven P. Wallace, Kyriakos Markides. 1997. "Economic Diversity and an Aging Population: The Impact of Public Policy and Economic Trends." Generations. 21:2 (Summer 1997), 13-18. Summarizes the economic status of major racial/ethnic group elderly in the U.S. and discusses the consequences of their economic insecurity in terms of their welfare and health.
.....Park Tanjasiri, Sora, Steven P. Wallace, Kazue Shibata. "Picture Imperfect: Hidden Problems Among Asian Pacific Islander Elderly." The Gerontologist.35:6 (December 1995), 753-760. Provides data and analysis to show that older API's are not a "model minority," with their SES and health status showing a bimodal pattern of some elders doing well, but others doing very poorly.
.....Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnne, Steven P. Wallace, Raynard Kington. "Service Utilization and Minority Elderly: Appropriateness, Accessibility and Acceptability." Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 15:1 (1994), 45-64. A summary of existing data on acute care and LTC utilization, along with a model of barriers to care and ways to overcome those barriers.
.....Wallace, Steven P. "The Political Economy of Health Care for Elderly Blacks." International Journal of Health Services. 20:4 (1990), pp. 665-680. Provides a good framework for looking at racial differences in health status and health care as based on culture (i.e. values), class (i.e. economic resources), and race (i.e. discrimination and racism).
.....Bell, Roxanne. "Prominence of Women in Navajo Healing Beliefs and Values" Nursing and Health Care 15:5 (1994) 232-240. A description of the experiences of an Anglo Clinic Director in Kayenta Community Health Clinic.
.....Carresse, Joseph, and Lorna Rhodes. "Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation: Benefit or Harm?" JAMA, 274: 10 (1995). 826-829. The objective of this article is to understand the Navajo perspective regarding the discussion of negative information and to consider the limitations of dominant Western bioethical perspectives.
.....Evans, Carol A. and Barbara Ann Cunningham. "Caring for the Ethnic Elder" Geriatric Nursing, 17: 3 (1996) 105-110. This article discusses the roles of cultural influences in assessing needs of ethnic and minority elders in the clinical situation.
.....Huttlinger, Laura K., Denise Drevdahl, Philip Tree, Elaine Baca, Anita Benally. "'Doing Battle': A Metaphorical Analysis of Diabetes Mellitus Among Navajo People" American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 46:8 (1992) . This paper describes one aspect of the findings of an ethnographic study of chronic diabetes among the Navajo people and the importance of metaphorical communication for perception of compliance, powerlessness, and patient and therapist satisfaction with therapeutic relationship.
.....Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa and Elizabeth Mackenzie. "Cultural Competence: Essential Measurements of Quality for Managed Care Organizations" Editorial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 124: 10 (1996) 919-20. Argues for inclusion and integration of health-related beliefs and cultural values, disease incidence and prevalence, and treatment efficacy in measures of quality for HMOs.
.....Bonnie B. O'Connor, "Promoting Cultural Competence in HIV/AIDS Care." JANAC 7, Suppl. 1 (1996) 41. Suggests specific cultural competence training strategies and offers a broad conceptual framework for teaching and learning about cultural competence, using HIV/AIDS as illustrations.
.....David Hufford. "Whose Culture, Whose Body, Whose Healing?" Alternative Therapies, 1:5 (1995), 94.
