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Ralph Catalano is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on medicine and social sciences. Within these broad fields, Catalano has contributed extensively to pediatrics, perinatology, child health, general health professions, gender studies, and health topics related to toxicology and mutagenesis.

The main topics of Catalano's work include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Catalano's recent papers demonstrate involvement in critical public health issues and epidemiology. Notable publications include:

  • Excess Mortality in California During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, March to August 2020 (2020), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Changes in preterm birth and caesarean deliveries in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2021), published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of U.S. vital statistics data from 2009 to 2018 (2020), published in Social Science & Medicine
  • Improved asthma outcomes observed in the vicinity of coal power plant retirement, retrofit and conversion to natural gas (2020), published in Nature Energy
  • Wildfire particulate matter in Shasta County, California and respiratory and circulatory disease-related emergency department visits and mortality, 2013-2018 (2020), published in Environmental Epidemiology

Catalano has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Tim A. Bruckner
  • Joan A. Casey
  • Alison Gemmill
  • Claire E. Margerison
  • Brenda Bustos

The primary publication venues where Catalano's work appears include:

  • Evolution Medicine and Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • Nature Energy
  • American Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Lifetime prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders among urban and rural Mexican Americans in California.

    William A. Vega;Bohdan Kolody;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Ethel Alderete

  • The Health Effects of Economic Decline

    Ralph Catalano;Sidra Goldman-Mellor;Katherine Saxton;Claire Margerison-Zilko

  • Gaps in Service Utilization by Mexican Americans With Mental Health Problems

    William A. Vega;Bohdan Kolody;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Ralph Catalano

  • Depression and unemployment: Panel findings from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano;Georjeanna Wilson

  • The health effects of economic insecurity.

    R Catalano

  • Economic antecedents of child abuse and neglect.

    Laurence D. Steinberg;Ralph Catalano;David Dooley

  • Economic change as a cause of behavioral disorder.

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano

  • Economic predictors of depressed mood and stressful life events in a metropolitan community.

    Ralph Catalano;C. David Dooley

  • Job loss and alcohol abuse: a test using data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area project.

    Ralph Catalano;David Dooley;Georjeanna Wilson;Richard Hough

  • Exogenous shocks to the human sex ratio: the case of September 11, 2001 in New York City

    R. Catalano;T. Bruckner;A.R. Marks;B. Eskenazi

  • Earthquake Preparedness: Predictors in a Community Survey1

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano;Shiraz Mishra;Seth Serxner

  • Health effects of economic instability: a test of economic stress hypothesis.

    Ralph A. Catalano;David Dooley

  • Sex ratios in the two Germanies: a test of the economic stress hypothesis

    Ralph A. Catalano

  • Unemployment and alcohol disorder in 1910 and 1990: Drift versus social causation

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano;Richard Hough

  • Recent research on the psychological effects of unemployment.

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano

  • Low birthweight in New York city and upstate New York following the events of September 11th

    Brenda Eskenazi;Amy R. Marks;Ralph Catalano;Tim Bruckner

  • TIME SERIES DESIGNS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST TO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

    Ralph Catalano;Seth Serxner

  • Sex ratios in California following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

    Ralph Catalano;Tim Bruckner;Jeff Gould;Brenda Eskenazi

  • Personal and Aggregate Unemployment and Psychological Symptoms

    David Dooley;Ralph Catalano;Karen S. Rook

  • Health, Behavior and the Community: An Ecological Perspective

    Ralph Catalano

Frequent Co-Authors

David Dooley
David Dooley University of California, Irvine
Terry Hartig
Terry Hartig Uppsala University
Karen S. Rook
Karen S. Rook University of California, Irvine
Raymond W. Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco University of California, Irvine
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith University of California, Berkeley
Bohdan Kolody
Bohdan Kolody San Diego State University
Jason G. Su
Jason G. Su University of California, Berkeley
Brenda Eskenazi
Brenda Eskenazi University of California, Berkeley
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Richard L. Hough
Richard L. Hough Boston Children's Hospital

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