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Death at an Early Age: AIDS and Related Mortality in New York City

Here we present the work of a team associated with the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) at the New York Academy of Medicine. The principal author was Deborah Wallace, working with Dr. Sandro Galea, at the time, Deputy Director of CUES, and Jennifer Ahern, also then at CUES, who should be regarded as coauthors of the chapter. It focuses on patterns of HIV/AIDS and related deaths as a population/community level disease guild including homicide, drug deaths, and cirrhosis deaths. These data suggest the necessity of expanding the theoretical analysis of the early part of the book from a focus on individual paths of cognitive gene expression driven by epigenetic catalysis to emergent phenomena at the population level, necessarily involving coordinated crosstalk between individuals, subgroups, and perhaps geographic subdivisions.

Disaster Mental Health Research: Exposure, Impact, and Response

Disasters occur frequently, sometimes in multiple locations at the same time, and although they vary in terms of type, impact, and their consequences, they are often life changing for large numbers of people. Although disaster forecasting has improved in recent decades, many disasters remain unforeseen, and even more disasters continue to exceed the response capacities of the communities that they affect. A number of large-scale human-made and natural disasters during the past decade have resulted in considerable popular and academic attention being paid to population effects of disasters, particularly in terms of mental health effects. Among these, the Marmara Earthquake in August 1999; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC; the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid; the London terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005; and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 all have been studied by several teams of scientists and clinicians and have resulted in a rapidly growing body of knowledge about the mental health consequences of such events. Building on the work presented in recent volumes in the field (Cameron, Watson, & Friedman, 2006; Neria, Gross, Marshall, & Susser, 2006; Norris, Galea, Friedman, & Watson, 2006; Ursano, Fullerton, Weisaeth, & Raphael, 2007), the goal of this book is to address crucial gaps in our knowledge by reviewing and synthesizing the existing literature on the mental health consequences of disasters, evaluating strengths and shortcomings of past and current methodologies, and suggesting a comprehensive overview of future directions for improved research about the mental health consequences of disasters.

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Mental Health and Disasters: List of Contributors

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Mental Health and Disasters: Acknowledgments

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Mental Health and Disasters: QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS

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Mental Health and Disasters: CONCEPTS

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Mental Health and Disasters: CASE STUDIES

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Mental Health and Disasters: Contents

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