Original version, in color, is here on open access:
Miscellaneous amused views on topics in the domains of neuropsychiatric epidemiology, defined broadly to encompass the entire envirome and genome, including infective agents; alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; traumatic events; you name it. Comments welcome. Will be moderated by a volunteer among one of our MSU program's chief fellows or alum.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016
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Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016
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Science 21 Sep 2018:
Vol. 361, Issue 6408, eaau1184
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1184
Vol. 361, Issue 6408, eaau1184
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1184
Friday, September 14, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
One of Bruce Dohrenwend’s Classic Articles
Deserves careful study.
BD’s Rema LaPouse Lecture
A quibble: This “three generation” model requires us to ignore the pioneering field surveys of early Norway, which pre-dated the work of Jarvis cited here as ‘first generation’ work. (They are dismissed as key informant surveys.) As well as the work of A.J. Rosenau (1916-17), which was not just a key informant survey. It had a two-stage design of the type we laid out for Mini-Mental and DIS studies of the 1980-85 era (following clues from Scott Henderson and Paul Duncan-Jones Australia study of life events), but Rosenau had no rigorous random sample of all participants.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
e-health assessment tool collection
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Qualitative research on cannabis
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Useful for several reasons, including the set and setting concepts that resonate with public health’s host and environment elements of the ‘epidemiological triad.’
The NIH project abstract:
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Saturday, September 1, 2018
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