Sandro Galea

TL;DR: This paper measured the sets of adaptive capacities for economic development and social capital in the Norris et al. (2008) community resilience model with publicly accessible population indicators, and combined the indicators into composites of Economic Development and Social Capital and an additive index of community resilience using Mississippi county data, and validated these against a well-established index of social vulnerability and aggregated survey data on collective efficacy.

TL;DR: Data suggest a rapid resolution of most of the probable PTSD symptoms in the general population of New York City in the first 6 months after the attacks, suggesting the psychological consequences of a large-scale disaster in a densely populated urban area may extend beyond persons directly affected by the disaster to persons in thegeneral population.

TL;DR: Improving the quality of observational work through improved measurement of neighbourhood attributes, more sophisticated consideration of spatial scale, longitudinal designs and evaluation of natural experiments will strengthen inferences regarding causal effects of area attributes on depression.

TL;DR: Although many respondents met criteria for PTSD, particularly when exposure was high, resilience was observed in 65.1% of the sample, but the frequency of resilience never fell below one third even among the exposure groups with the most dramatic elevations in PTSD.

TL;DR: Prevalence increased significantly in the CAG for PTSD, while the increases in PTSD-SMI and suicidal ideation-plans occurred both in the New Orleans sub-sample and in the remainder of the sample, meaning that high prevalence of hurricane-related mental illness remains widely distributed in the population nearly 2 years after the hurricane.