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Mark S. Kaplan is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the study of suicide and self-harm, with significant contributions across psychology, medicine, and social sciences.

The main fields of study associated with Kaplan's work include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

The subfields within these areas cover more specialized domains such as clinical psychology, health, general health professions, emergency medicine, and epidemiology.

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Epidemiology

Kaplan's research topics are heavily concentrated in suicide and self-harm studies. Additional topics addressed include gun ownership and violence research, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, restraint-related deaths, homelessness and social issues, and emergency and acute care studies.

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Restraint-Related Deaths
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

The scientist has published multiple papers with notable venues that include:

  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Injury Prevention
  • Archives of Suicide Research
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Representative recent publications are:

  • "Suicide Among Males Across the Lifespan: An Analysis of Differences by Known Mental Health Status," 2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • "Alcohol and other drugs in suicide in Canada: opportunities to support prevention through enhanced monitoring," 2020, Injury Prevention
  • "Changes over time in means of suicide in Canada: an analysis of mortality data from 1981 to 2018," 2021, Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • "Evaluating the Impact of Alcohol Policy on Suicide Mortality: A Sex-Specific Time-Series Analysis for Lithuania," 2021, Archives of Suicide Research
  • "Growing alcohol use preceding death by suicide among women compared with men: age-specific temporal trends, 2003-18," 2022, Addiction

Frequent collaborators in Kaplan's research include:

  • Shannon Lange
  • Jürgen Rehm
  • Heather Orpana
  • Norman Giesbrecht
  • Alexander Tran

Best Publications

  • The association between length of residence and obesity among Hispanic immigrants

    Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Jason T. Newsom;Bentson H. McFarland

  • Suicide among male veterans: a prospective population‐based study

    Mark S Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Bentson H McFarland;Jason T Newsom

  • Adverse effects of acculturation: psychological distress among Mexican American young adults.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Gary Marks

  • Demographic and psychosocial correlates of physical activity in late life

    Mark S Kaplan;Jason T Newsom;Bentson H McFarland;Leining Lu

  • The health consciousness myth: implications of the near independence of major health behaviors in the North American population.

    Jason T. Newsom;Bentson H. McFarland;Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet

  • BMI and mortality: results from a national longitudinal study of Canadian adults.

    Heather M. Orpana;Jean Marie Berthelot;Jean Marie Berthelot;Mark S. Kaplan;David H. Feeny;David H. Feeny

  • Health behavior change following chronic illness in middle and later life

    Jason T. Newsom;Nathalie Huguet;Michael J. McCarthy;Pamela Ramage-Morin

  • Distress and coping among women with HIV infection: preliminary findings from a multiethnic sample.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Gary Marks;Steven B. Mertens

  • Socioeconomic status and health-related quality of life among elderly people: results from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health.

    Nathalie Huguet;Mark S. Kaplan;David Feeny

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Overweight and Obesity Among Older Adults: Findings From the Canadian National Population Health Survey

    Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Jason T. Newsom;Bentson H. McFarland

  • Complementary and alternative medicine use in Canada and the United States.

    Bentson McFarland;Douglas Bigelow;Brigid Zani;Jason Newsom

  • Suicide Among African American Men

    Sean Joe;Mark S. Kaplan

  • Firearm suicides and homicides in the United States: regional variations and patterns of gun ownership.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Olga Geling

  • Acute alcohol intoxication and suicide: a gender-stratified analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System

    Mark S Kaplan;Bentson H McFarland;Nathalie Huguet;Kenneth Conner

  • Suicide risk and precipitating circumstances among young, middle-aged, and older male veterans.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Bentson H. McFarland;Nathalie Huguet;Marcia Valenstein

  • The psychosocial determinants of hypertension.

    M.S. Kaplan;A. Nunes

  • Physical Illness, Functional Limitations, and Suicide Risk: A Population‐Based Study

    Mark S. Kaplan;Bentson H. McFarland;Nathalie Huguet;Jason T. Newsom

  • Economic Recession, Alcohol, and Suicide Rates: Comparative Effects of Poverty, Foreclosure, and Job Loss

    William C. Kerr;Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Raul Caetano

  • Use of alcohol before suicide in the United States.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;Bentson H. McFarland;Raul Caetano

  • Discerning suicide in drug intoxication deaths: paucity and primacy of suicide notes and psychiatric history

    Ian R H Rockett;Eric D Caine;Hilary S Connery;Gail D'Onofrio

  • Self-reported hypertension prevalence and income among older adults in Canada and the United States.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Nathalie Huguet;David H. Feeny;Bentson H. McFarland

  • Firearm suicide among veterans in the general population: findings from the national violent death reporting system.

    Mark S. Kaplan;Bentson H. McFarland;Nathalie Huguet

Frequent Co-Authors

David Feeny
David Feeny McMaster University
Jason T. Newsom
Jason T. Newsom Portland State University
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Raul Caetano
Raul Caetano Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Kenneth R. Conner
Kenneth R. Conner University of Rochester Medical Center
Nancy A. Ross
Nancy A. Ross Queen's University
Gary Marks
Gary Marks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chris M. Blanchard
Chris M. Blanchard Dalhousie University
Namkee G. Choi
Namkee G. Choi The University of Texas at Austin
Peter M. Gutierrez
Peter M. Gutierrez Florida State University

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