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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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Parental symptoms of common mental disorders and children's social, motor, and language development in sub-Saharan Africa.
TL;DR: Child development in this setting is strongly associated with child age and maternal depression, and interventions aimed at improving maternal depression may have an important role to play in efforts to improve child development and to mitigate the intergenerational transmission of poor health in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Distribution of Influenza Vaccine to High-Risk Groups
TL;DR: This review systematically summarizes the recent literature evaluating programs in different settings, from within medical settings to venue-based and community-based approaches, in an effort to identify successful program components.
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Variability and Vulnerability at the Ecological Level: Implications for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health
TL;DR: Differences in health outcome variability reflect differences in SES impact on health, and health variability at the ecological level might reflect the impact of stressors on vulnerable populations.
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Child maltreatment increases sensitivity to adverse social contexts: neighborhood physical disorder and incident binge drinking in Detroit.
Katherine M. Keyes,Katie A. McLaughlin,Karestan C. Koenen,Emily Goldmann,Monica Uddin,Sandro Galea +5 more
TL;DR: The results add to the growing literature that African Americans in the US are exposed to an array of stressors that have pernicious consequences for problematic alcohol use, and document the need for increased attention to the potential for at-risk alcohol use among populations with a high degree of stress exposure.
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Longitudinal Associations Between Types of Childhood Trauma and Suicidal Behavior Among Substance Users: A Cohort Study
TL;DR: Severe sexual, physical, and emotional childhood abuse confer substantial risk of repeated suicidal behavior in adulthood among illicit drug users, particularly among those with a history of childhood trauma.