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Overview

Joshua Breslau is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research primarily spans across several fields including Psychology, Health Professions, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and Health.

The main topics addressed in their work include Mental Health Treatment and Access, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Healthcare Policy and Management, Health Disparities and Outcomes, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, and Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua Breslau include:

  • A longitudinal study of psychological distress in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Preventive Medicine
  • Assessment of Patient Preferences for Telehealth in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Health Care, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Substance Use Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity: Results from the 2015-2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2020, LGBT Health
  • Expansion of Telehealth Availability for Mental Health Care After State-Level Policy Changes From 2019 to 2022, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Utilization of Mental Health Care, 2020, Medical Care

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Breslau include:

  • Rebecca L. Collins
  • Ryan K. McBain
  • Stephanie Brooks Holliday
  • Michael S. Dunbar
  • Robin Beckman

Their research has been published recurrently in several academic venues, such as:

  • Psychiatric Services
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • RAND Corporation eBooks

Joshua Breslau has also contributed to numerous book publications under RAND Corporation eBooks, covering topics related to mental health system transformation, emergency hotline preparedness, health behavior surveys, health readiness assessments for military components, and mental health care improvement. Some titles include:

  • How to Transform the U.S. Mental Health System: Evidence-Based Recommendations, 2021
  • Transforming Mental Health Care in the United States, 2021
  • Preparedness for 988 Throughout the United States: The New Mental Health Emergency Hotline, 2022
  • Mental Health Emergency Hotlines in the United States: An Evidence Inventory (2012-2021), 2022
  • Improving Mental Health Care Systems in the United States: Policy Questions Arising from a Case Study of Sheppard Pratt, 2023

Best Publications

  • Race/ethnic differences in exposure to traumatic events, development of post-traumatic stress disorder, and treatment-seeking for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States.

    Andrea L. Roberts;Stephen E. Gilman;Joshua Breslau;Naomi Breslau

  • Specifying race-ethnic differences in risk for psychiatric disorder in a USA national sample.

    Joshua Breslau;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Kenneth S. Kendler;Maxwell Su

  • Lifetime risk and persistence of psychiatric disorders across ethnic groups in the United States.

    Joshua Breslau;Kenneth S Kendler;Maxwell Su;Sergio Gaxiola-Aguilar

  • Mental disorders and subsequent educational attainment in a US national sample

    Joshua Breslau;Michael Lane;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • The Impact of Early Behavior Disturbances on Academic Achievement in High School

    Joshua Breslau;Elizabeth Miller;Naomi Breslau;Kipling Bohnert

  • Childhood socio-economic status and the onset, persistence, and severity of DSM-IV mental disorders in a US national sample.

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Joshua Breslau;Jennifer Greif Green;Matthew D. Lakoma

  • Sex differences in recent first-onset depression in an epidemiological sample of adolescents

    Joshua Breslau;Stephen E. Gilman;Bradley D. Stein;Teague Ruder

  • A multinational study of mental disorders, marriage, and divorce

    J. Breslau;E. Miller;R. Jin;N. A. Sampson

  • Risk for psychiatric disorder among immigrants and their US-born descendants: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Joshua Breslau;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Guilherme Borges;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • Childhood and adolescent onset psychiatric disorders, substance use, and failure to graduate high school on time

    Joshua Breslau;Elizabeth Miller;W.-J. Joanie Chung;Julie B. Schweitzer

  • Mental disorders and termination of education in high-income and low- and middle-income countries: epidemiological study.

    S. Lee;A. Tsang;J. Breslau;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

  • Immigration to the USA and risk for mood and anxiety disorders: variation by origin and age at immigration.

    J. Breslau;G. Borges;Y. Hagar;Daniel J Tancredi

  • A longitudinal study of psychological distress in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Joshua Breslau;Melissa L. Finucane;Alicia Revitsky Locker;Matthew D. Baird

  • Assessment of Patient Preferences for Telehealth in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Health Care.

    Zachary S Predmore;Elizabeth Roth;Joshua Breslau;Shira H Fischer

  • Psychiatric disorders among foreign-born and US-born Asian-Americans in a US national survey.

    Joshua Breslau;Doris F. Chang

  • Cultures of trauma: anthropological views of posttraumatic stress disorder in international health.

    Joshua Breslau

  • Are mental disorders more common in urban than rural areas of the United States

    Joshua Breslau;Grant N. Marshall;Harold Alan Pincus;Ryan Andrew Brown

  • Adverse childhood experiences and risk of physical violence in adolescent dating relationships

    Elizabeth Miller;Joshua Breslau;W-J Joanie Chung;Jennifer Greif Green

  • Migration from Mexico to the United States and Subsequent Risk for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: A Cross-National Study

    Joshua Breslau;Guilherme Borges;Daniel J Tancredi;Naomi Saito

  • Differential item functioning between ethnic groups in the epidemiological assessment of depression.

    Joshua Breslau;Kristin N. Javaras;Deborah Blacker;Jane M. Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen E. Gilman
Stephen E. Gilman Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Rebecca L. Collins
Rebecca L. Collins RAND Corporation
María Elena Medina-Mora
María Elena Medina-Mora National Autonomous University of Mexico
Bradley D. Stein
Bradley D. Stein RAND Corporation
Naomi Breslau
Naomi Breslau Michigan State University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
William A. Vega
William A. Vega Florida International University
Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Jennifer Greif Green
Jennifer Greif Green Boston University

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