Despite a decades-old call for better understanding of the role of environmental pollutant influences on mental health, a comprehensive review of the literature on non-occupational exposures to environmental pollutants and ...

Second-generation antipsychotics are unaffordable and inconsistently available to people with schizophrenia in Rwanda. This study conducted and assessed the health economic and market access components of an initiative to ...

Although the disease burden associated with cannabis is low, cannabis use may nonetheless have major implications for health and its social determinants across the life course. The likelihood of experiencing cannabis-related ...

Approximately 13%–20% of children living in the United States experience a diagnosable behavioral health disorder (BHD) in a given year. Children with BHDs have elevated risk of poor mental and physical health outcomes. ...

Genome-wide genotyping studies are providing evidence that psychiatric disorders are truly polygenic, that is they have a genetic architecture of many genetic variants. Cross-trait polygenic analysis has been applied to ...

Suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths. Early detection of pregnant women with suicidal behavior presents an important opportunity for directing suicide prevention efforts to those at high risk for suicide ...

This dissertation examines the stigmatization of two health conditions: mental disability and physical disability in the context of China. In particular, it addresses two main themes: the processes and impacts of stigma, ...