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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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Setting the Agenda for a New Discipline: Population Health Science
Katherine M. Keyes,Sandro Galea +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reflect on the development of a new field of study, population health science, and what this field should have as its focus.
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Aspirations and Strategies for Public Health
Sandro Galea,George J. Annas +1 more
TL;DR: Public health should be ascendant, but ample evidence suggests that it is on the defensive today, underappreciated, and underfunded, and traditional medicine continues to be privileged.
Mental Health in New York City After the September 11 Terrorist Attacks: Results From Two Population Surveys
TL;DR: On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked from U.S. airports and crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City, killing more than 3,000 people.
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Cumulative Disaster Exposure and Mental and Physical Health Symptoms Among a Large Sample of Gulf Coast Residents.
Sarah R. Lowe,John A McGrath,Megan N. Young,Richard K. Kwok,Lawrence S. Engel,Lawrence S. Engel,Sandro Galea,Dale P. Sandler +7 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that cumulative disaster exposure confers enhanced risk for adverse mental and physical health outcomes and demonstrate that screening for prior exposure among disaster-affected individuals might identify those at greatestrisk for adverse health outcomes.
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Circumstances and witness characteristics associated with overdose fatality.
TL;DR: Future prevention interventions may fruitfully target users of powdered cocaine, drug users without a history of injecting, and individuals who use drugs in public or abandoned buildings for brief interventions on responding when witnessing an overdose to reduce mortality.