College of Health

L. N. Đoàn, Takata, Y., Hooker, K., Méndez-Luck, C., and Irvin, V. L., “Trends in Cardiovascular Disease by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnicity, Medicare Health Outcomes Survey 2011-2015.”, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2021.

L. N. Syron, Bovbjerg, V. E., Mendez-Luck, C. A., and Kincl, L., “Safety and Health Programs in Alaska's Seafood Processing Industry: Interviews with Safety and Health Managers.”, J Agromedicine, pp. 1-13, 2019.

A. VanGarde, Yoon, J., Luck, J., and Mendez-Luck, C. A., “Racial/Ethnic Variation in the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Coverage and Access Among Young Adults.”, Am J Public Health, vol. 108, no. 4, pp. 544-549, 2018.

A. P. Herrera, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Crist, J. D., Smith, M. Lee, Warre, R., Ory, M. G., and Markides, K., “Psychosocial and Cognitive Health Differences by Caregiver Status Among Older Mexican Americans”, Community Mental Health Journal, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 61 - 72, 2013.

E. McDermott and Mendez-Luck, C. A., “The Processes of Becoming a Caregiver Among Mexican-Origin Women: A Cultural Psychological Perspective”, SAGE Open, vol. 8, no. 2, 2018.

C. A. Mendez-Luck, Walker, K. O., and Luck, J., “Preventive Services Use Among African American and Latino Adult Caregivers in South Los Angeles.”, Med Care, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 1098-1104, 2016.

D. M. Tisnado, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Metz, J., Peirce, K., and Montaño, B., “Perceptions of Survivorship Care among Latina Women with Breast Cancer in Los Angeles County.”, Public Health Nurs, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 118-129, 2017.

S. R. Applewhite, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Kao, D., Torres, L. R., Scinta, A., Villarreal, Y. R., Haider, A., and Bordnick, P. S., “The Perceived Role of Family in Heroin Use Behaviors of Mexican-American Men.”, J Immigr Minor Health, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1207-1215, 2017.

L. R. Guerrero and Mendez-Luck, C. A., “Overcoming a Bad Day: a Qualitative Look into the Dementia Caregiving Experiences of Mexican-Origin Women in East Los Angeles.”, J Cross Cult Gerontol, 2019.

C. A. Mendez-Luck, Geldhof, G. J., Anthony, K. P., W Steers, N., Mangione, C. M., and Hays, R. D., “Orientation to the Caregiver Role Among Latinas of Mexican Origin.”, Gerontologist, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. e99-e108, 2016.

C. A. Mendez-Luck and Anthony, K. P., “Marianismo and Caregiving Role Beliefs Among U.S.-Born and Immigrant Mexican Women.”, The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2015.

H. E. Del Pino, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Bostean, G., Ramírez, K., Portillo, M., and Moore, A. A., “Leveraging family values to decrease unhealthy alcohol use in aging latino day laborers.”, Journal of immigrant and minority health / Center for Minority Public Health, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1001-7, 2012.

A. J. Pettus, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Bergeron, C. D., Ahn, S. N., Towne, S. D., Ory, M. G., and Smith, M. Lee, “Internet-Based Resources for Disease Self-Care Among Middle-Aged and Older Women with Chronic Conditions.”, J Womens Health (Larchmt), vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 222-233, 2017.

G. J. Hoffman, Burgard, S., Mendez-Luck, C. A., and Gaugler, J. E., “Interdependence in Health and Functioning Among Older Spousal Caregivers and Care Recipients.”, West J Nurs Res, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 685-703, 2019.

J. Luck, Govier, D., Ðoàn, L. N., Mahakalanda, S., Zhang, W., and Méndez-Luck, C., “Functional Limitations and Physical Health in Community-Dwelling Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries: Variation by Race and Hispanic Subgroup.”, J Aging Health, p. 8982643221113133, 2022.

S. A. Cohen, Mendez-Luck, C. A., Greaney, M. L., Azzoli, A. B., Cook, S. K., and Sabik, N. J., “Differences in Caregiving Intensity Among Distinct Sociodemographic Subgroups of Informal Caregivers: Joint Effects of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Employment.”, J Gerontol Nurs, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 23-32, 2021.

K. Hooker, Phibbs, S., Irvin, V. L., Mendez-Luck, C. A., Doan, L. N., Li, T., Turner, S., and Choun, S., “Depression Among Older Adults in the United States by Disaggregated Race and Ethnicity.”, Gerontologist, 2018.

K. P. Anthony, Geldhof, G. J., and Mendez-Luck, C. A., “Characterizing Caregiving Intensity Among Mexican-origin Women Caregivers.”, Gerontologist, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1084-1092, 2017.

W. Zhang, Luck, J., Patil, V., Mendez-Luck, C. A., and Kaiser, A., “Changes in Therapy Utilization at Skilled Nursing Facilities Under Medicare's Patient Driven Payment Model.”, J Am Med Dir Assoc, 2022.

L. N. Đoàn, Takata, Y., Mendez-Luck, C. A., Hooker, K., and Irvin, V. L., “Cardiovascular Disease and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Older Adults.”, J Aging Health, vol. 34, no. 9-10, pp. 1254-1268, 2022.

C. A. Mendez-Luck, Amorim, C., Anthony, K. P., and Neal, M. B., “Beliefs and expectations of family and nursing home care among Mexican-origin caregivers.”, J Women Aging, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 460-472, 2017.

G. J. Geldhof, Anthony, K. P., Selig, J. P., and Mendez-Luck, C. A., “Accommodating binary and count variables in mediation: A case for conditional indirect effects”, International Journal of Behavioral Development, vol. 42, pp. 300–308, 2018.