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Sandro Galea
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 1221
Citations - 70071
Sandro Galea is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 115, co-authored 1129 publications receiving 58396 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandro Galea include University of California, Berkeley & Dartmouth College.
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Neighbourhood characteristics and mental disorders in three Chinese cities: multilevel models from the World Mental Health Surveys
Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho,Laura Sampson,Silvia S. Martins,Shui Yu,Yueqin Huang,Yanling He,Sing Lee,Chiyi Hu,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Ronald C. Kessler,Sandro Galea,Sandro Galea +11 more
TL;DR: The proportion of married residents in respondents’ neighbourhoods was significantly inversely associated with having externalising mental disorders in this sample of Chinese cities.
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RedeAmericas: building research capacity in young leaders for sustainable growth in community mental health services in Latin America.
Lawrence H. Yang,Charissa Pratt,Eliecer Valencia,Eliecer Valencia,Sarah Conover,Ruth Fernández,María Soledad Burrone,Maria Tavares Cavalcanti,Giovanni Marcos Lovisi,Graciela Rojas,Rubén Alvarado,Sandro Galea,LeShawndra Price,Ezra Susser +13 more
TL;DR: The development and initial accomplishments of a training program of young leaders in community mental health research as part of a Latin American initiative known as RedeAmericas, which included an Awardee program for early career researchers in the mental health field is described.
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The relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic characteristics and individual mental disorders in five cities in Latin America: multilevel models from the World Mental Health Surveys.
Laura Sampson,Silvia S. Martins,Shui Yu,Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho,Laura Helena Andrade,Maria Carmen Viana,María Elena Medina-Mora,Corina Benjet,Yolanda Torres,Marina Piazza,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Alfredo H. Cia,Juan Carlos Stagnaro,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Ronald C. Kessler,Sandro Galea,Sandro Galea +16 more
TL;DR: The associations of neighborhood-level migration, unemployment, and education with individual-level odds ofmental disorders highlight the importance of community context for understanding the burden of mental disorders among residents of rapidly urbanizing global settings.
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Social context and the health consequences of disasters.
TL;DR: This article presents one such conceptual model which links the health consequences of natural, technological, and human-made disasters to a set of nested socioecological factors and suggests that the role of multiple contextual determinants in shaping population health is likely to be complex.
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The Need to Integrate Climate Science Into Public Health Preparedness for Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones.
TL;DR: September is often a busy month for global tropical activity, but there has been a changing scenario in recent years and public health preparedness is not keeping pace with advancing climate science knowledge about how tropical storm systems are changing and potentially becoming more dangerous.