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Benjamin G. Druss

Benjamin G. Druss

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D-Index
84
Citations
33169
World Ranking
14916
National Ranking
7541

Overview

Benjamin G. Druss is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, health professions, and psychology. Their research spans several primary topics including mental health treatment and access, schizophrenia research and treatment, primary care and health outcomes, health disparities and outcomes, mental health and patient involvement, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and opioid use disorder treatment.

The scientist's work has been published frequently in several notable venues. These include Psychiatric Services, with 16 publications; UNC Libraries, with 5 publications; JAMA Psychiatry, with 4 publications; General Hospital Psychiatry, with 3 publications; and Schizophrenia Bulletin, also with 3 publications.

Benjamin G. Druss has collaborated frequently with several coauthors in their research efforts. These common collaborators include Benson S. Ku, Elaine F. Walker, Carrie E. Bearden, Tyrone D. Cannon, and Barbara A. Cornblatt.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on mental health challenges, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and related structural issues. Select papers include:

  • Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Populations With Serious Mental Illness, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Policy in the Era of COVID-19, 2020, Psychiatric Services
  • Associations between mental health shortage areas and county-level suicide rates among adults aged 25 and older in the USA, 2010 to 2018, 2021, General Hospital Psychiatry
  • Improving Physical Health Among People With Serious Mental Illness: The Role of the Specialty Mental Health Sector, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • The Association Between Neighborhood Poverty and Hippocampal Volume Among Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: The Moderating Role of Social Engagement, 2022, Schizophrenia Bulletin

Research subfields within Benjamin G. Druss's body of work include general health professions, social psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and public health with environmental and occupational health. This interdisciplinary approach supports their focus on addressing complex mental health conditions and improving health outcomes within populations affected by serious mental illness.

Best Publications

  • Mortality in Mental Disorders and Global Disease Burden Implications: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Elizabeth Reisinger Walker;Robin E. McGee;Benjamin G. Druss

  • The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Benjamin G. Druss;Deborah A. Perlick

  • NATIONAL TRENDS IN THE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION

    Mark Olfson;Steven C. Marcus;Benjamin Druss;Lynn Elinson

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ramin Mojtabai;Mark Olfson;Nancy A. Sampson;Robert Jin

  • Clauses are perceptual units for young infants

    Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Deborah G. Kemler Nelson;Peter W. Jusczyk;Kimberly Wright Cassidy

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders: a multilevel intervention framework and priorities for clinical practice, policy and research agendas

    Nancy H. Liu;Nancy H. Liu;Gail L. Daumit;Tarun Dua;Ralph Aquila

  • Mental health-related stigma in health care and mental health-care settings

    Claire Henderson;Jo Noblett;Hannah Parke;Sarah Clement

  • Quality of medical care and excess mortality in older patients with mental disorders.

    Benjamin G. Druss;W. David Bradford;Robert A. Rosenheck;Martha J. Radford

  • Mental Disorders and Use of Cardiovascular Procedures After Myocardial Infarction

    Benjamin G. Druss;David W. Bradford;Robert A. Rosenheck;Martha J. Radford

  • Association Between Use of Unconventional Therapies and Conventional Medical Services

    Benjamin G. Druss;Robert A. Rosenheck

  • Understanding Excess Mortality in Persons With Mental Illness: 17-year Follow Up of a Nationally Representative US Survey

    Benjamin G. Druss;Liping Zhao;Silke Von Esenwein;Elaine H. Morrato

  • Health and disability costs of depressive illness in a Major U.S. Corporation

    Benjamin G. Druss;Robert A. Rosenheck;William H. Sledge

  • Integrated medical care for Patients with serious psychiatric illness: A randomized trial

    Benjamin G. Druss;Robert M. Rohrbaugh;Carolyn M. Levinson;Robert A. Rosenheck

  • Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Populations With Serious Mental Illness.

    Benjamin G. Druss

  • Mental disorders and medical comorbidity.

    Benjamin G Druss;Elizabeth Reisinger Walker

  • The Health and Recovery Peer (HARP) Program: A Peer-Led Intervention to Improve Medical Self-Management for Persons with Serious Mental Illness

    Benjamin G Druss;Liping Zhao;Silke Von Esenwein;Joseph R. Bona

  • Trends in Mental Health Care among Children and Adolescents

    Mark Olfson;Benjamin G Druss;Steven C Marcus

  • Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in general medical illnesses.

    Benjamin Druss;Harold Alan Pincus

  • Comparing The National Economic Burden Of Five Chronic Conditions

    Benjamin G. Druss;Steven C. Marcus;Mark Olfson;Terri Tanielian

  • A Randomized Trial of Medical Care Management for Community Mental Health Settings: The Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) Study

    Benjamin G. Druss;Silke A. von Esenwein;Michael T. Compton;Kimberly J. Rask

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Rosenheck
Robert A. Rosenheck Yale University
Steven C. Marcus
Steven C. Marcus University of Pennsylvania
Mark Olfson
Mark Olfson Columbia University
Harold Alan Pincus
Harold Alan Pincus Columbia University
Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Roberto Lewis-Fernández Columbia University
Mark Schlesinger
Mark Schlesinger Yale University
Leopoldo J. Cabassa
Leopoldo J. Cabassa Washington University in St. Louis
Carolyn M. Mazure
Carolyn M. Mazure Yale University
Terri Tanielian
Terri Tanielian RAND Corporation
Nadine J. Kaslow
Nadine J. Kaslow Emory University

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