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PubMed Feed- Correction : Epidemiology and outcomes of early-onset AKI in COVID-19-related ARDS in comparison with non-COVID-19-related ARDS: insights from two prospective global cohort studies
- Suicide Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Variation Across Place, Over Time, and Across Sociodemographic Groups. A Systematic Integrative Review
- Investigating a Paradox: Towards Better Understanding the Relationships Between Racial Group Membership, Stress, and Major Depressive Disorder
- Social, educational, and psychological health correlates of e-cigarette and combustible cigarette use among adolescents in the US from 2015 to 2021
- Spring is associated with increased total and allergenic fungal concentrations in house dust from a pediatric asthma cohort in New York City
- Breast cancer risk prediction combining a convolutional neural network-based mammographic evaluation with clinical factors
- Standards in responsibly sharing cohort data for transparency and reproducibility: response to the Young Lives Study
- Nicotine Vaping and Co-occurring Substance Use Among Adolescents in the United States from 2017-2019
- Changing adolescent activity patterns and the correlation of self-esteem and externalizing mental health symptoms across time: results from the USA from 1991 through 2020
- Epidemiologic Trends and Risk Factors Associated with the Decline in Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in the United States, 1990-2019
Category Archives: Mental Health
The politics of depression: Associations between political beliefs and adolescent mental health
In a manuscript recently published in SSM Mental Health, Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues investigated the role that political beliefs play in shaping adolescent psychological wellbeing. After decades of relative stability, adolescent mental health has sharply declined over the past decade, … Continue reading
“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act”1: Racial sexual exclusivity as both an effect and a protection against discrimination for Black sexual minority men
Often in public health, sexual relationships between Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM) are framed as sources of risk and disease, especially in terms of HIV transmission. However, Black queer activists have long known that cultivating loving … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Ethnicity, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Race, Racism, Social Networks
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Mental illness, drinking, and the social division and structure of labor in the United States: 2003-2015
New research by Seth Prins, Sarah McKetta, Jonathan Platt, Carles Muntaner, Kerry Keyes, and Lisa Bates shows the ways that the social division and structure of labor are associated with mental illness and drinking. Their work was published online in … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Gender, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Occupation
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Business travel and behavioral and mental health
In new work, Rundle and colleagues find that extensive business travel is associated with poorer behavioral and mental health – smoking, sedentary behavior, trouble sleeping, alcohol dependence, depression and anxiety. The paper was recently published online at the Journal of Occupational … Continue reading
Recent Social Epi Research Papers
In a recent paper in the journal Injury Epidemiology Keyes and colleagues applied age-period-cohort analyses to data on fatal motorcycle crashes in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System data and found that baby-boomers have experienced significantly higher mortality from motorcycle crashes than … Continue reading
Stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean
Larry Yang and colleagues recently published a systematic review of studies describing stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Declaration of Caracas in 1990 implemented a number of mental health reforms in countries of the region … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, Stigma
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Who are smokers today? Implications for public health and research
Kerry Keyes and colleagues recently published a new article looking at changes in the relationship between smoking and psychiatric disorders across successive birth cohorts in the twentieth century. They find that as rates of smoking decreased through the latter half … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Smoking
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New Work on Stigma Among Those Labeled “At-Risk” for Psychosis
Cluster faculty member, Lawrence Yang and colleagues, just completed the first study to compare the stigmatizing effects of symptoms of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders to the stigmatizing effects of being labelled “at-risk” for these conditions and seeking help at … Continue reading
Posted in Labelling, Mental Health, Stigma
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