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Mental Illness and the Demand for Alcohol, Cocaine and Cigarettes [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect that mental illness has on the demand for addictive goods. Mental illness could affect the level of consumption of addictive goods and could affect the price elasticities of addictive goods.
Dhaval Dave, Henry Saffer
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study, utilizing two large‐cohort datasets, employs interpretable neural networks. It demonstrates that incorporating brain morphology and functional and structural networks enhances predictive accuracy for general psychopathology and its dimensions.
Jing Xia, Nanguang Chen, Anqi Qiu
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Behavioral SciencesBackground: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) experience barriers to accessing and engaging with healthcare, which may have been exacerbated during the emergence of the global pandemic and the rapid shift to telemedicine platforms ...
Isabella Soreca +3 more
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Treatment of a woman with emetophobia: a trauma focused approach
Mental Illness, 2012 A disproportionate fear of vomiting, or emetophobia, is a chronic and disabling condition which is characterized by a tendency to avoid a wide array of situations or activities that might increase the risk of vomiting.
Ad de Jongh
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“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito +3 more
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Study habits among Nigerian secondary school students with brain fag syndrome
Mental Illness, 2010 Brain Fag Syndrome (BFS) is a psychiatric disorder associated with study affecting two to four out of every ten African students. One of the consequences of this illness is early foreclosure of education in affected students.
Olufemi Morakinyo, Bolanle Adeyemi Ola
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Quantifying Mental Health from Social Media with Neural User Embeddings [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Mental illnesses adversely affect a significant proportion of the population worldwide. However, the methods traditionally used for estimating and characterizing the prevalence of mental health conditions are time-consuming and expensive. Consequently, best-available estimates concerning the prevalence of mental health conditions are often years out of
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Attitudes towards mental illness in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]
, 2012 <p><b>Background:</b> Stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness are strongly linked to suffering, disability and poverty.
Chabunya, S. +5 more
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Experiences of women farmworkers in Michigan: Perspectives from the Michigan Farmworker Project
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural work presents significant physical and social challenges globally and in the United States, with women farmworkers facing unique risks that remain underexplored. This study examines the social and occupational hazards confronted by women farmworkers in Michigan using data from the Michigan Farmworker Project.
Alexis J. Handal +3 more
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Leadership by fragmented destruction after a merger: an example from a facility of acute psychiatry
Mental Illness, 2013 Hospitals are labor intensive facilities based on highly skilled employees. A merger of hospitals is an effort to increase and rationalize this production. Decisions behind a merger are made at the top leadership level.
Jorid Grimeland, John E. Berg
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