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Mexicans and alcohol: patterns, problems and policiesMaria Elena Medina-Mora
Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research, Ramon de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico
Addiction 102:1041-5. 2007- [Drugs and public health: where are we heading to?]Maria Elena Medina-Mora
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 55:67-73. 2013..It describes the challenge the country faces as producer, route of traffic and rates of consumption, analyzes briefly the evidence of public policies and makes a series of recommendations... 
Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episodeEvelyn Bromet
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, South Campus, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, NY, USA
BMC Med 9:90. 2011..In this paper, we present data on the prevalence, impairment and demographic correlates of depression from 18 high and low- to middle-income countries in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative...
Epidemiology of inhalant useMaria Elena Medina-Mora
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Ramon de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
Curr Opin Psychiatry 21:247-51. 2008..The aim of the present article is to review recent research on the prevalence and correlates of inhalant use...- The measurement of drinking patterns and consequences in MexicoM E Medina-Mora
Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatria, Calzada Mexico Xochimilco No 101, Col San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico City, Distrito Federal CP 14370, Mexico
J Subst Abuse 12:183-96. 2000.... - Prevalence and correlates of drug use disorders in MexicoMaria Elena Medina-Mora
Ramon de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
Rev Panam Salud Publica 19:265-76. 2006..To describe the prevalence of drug use disorders, the correlates of drug use, and the utilization of specialized treatment services for drug users among the Mexican urban population 18-65 years old... - Prevalence, service use, and demographic correlates of 12-month DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in Mexico: results from the Mexican National Comorbidity SurveyM Elena Medina-Mora
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
Psychol Med 35:1773-83. 2005..This is representative of 75% of the national adult population... - [Drugs use among adolescents: results from the National Survey on Addictions, 1998]Ma Elena Medina-Mora
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico, D F, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 45:S16-25. 2003..The aim of this paper is to describe drug and associated factors use among adolescents (12 to 17 years of age)... - [Prevalence of violent events and post-traumatic stress disorder in the Mexican population]Maria Elena Medina-Mora Icaza
Dirección de Investigación Epidemiológica y Psicosocial, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 47:8-22. 2005..To report the rate of exposure to different violent events, their demographic correlates, the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the impact on quality of life... - [From tobacco use to other drugs use: does the early use of tobacco increase the probability of use of other drugs]Ma Elena Medina-Mora
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría doctor Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico, D F, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 44:S109-15. 2002..To assess the likelihood of substance abuse predicted by age of first exposure to tobacco... - The epidemiology of suicide-related outcomes in MexicoGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:627-40. 2007..Given the early AOO, intervention efforts need to focus more than currently on children and adolescents with mental disorders to be effective in prevention... - Psychiatric disorders, comorbidity, and suicidality in MexicoGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
J Affect Disord 124:98-107. 2010..e., suicide ideation, plans, and attempts). However, surprisingly little is known about the independent associations between each disorder and each suicidal behavior due to a failure to account for comorbidity... - Twelve-month prevalence of and risk factors for suicide attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health SurveysGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
J Clin Psychiatry 71:1617-28. 2010.... - Service use among Mexico City adolescents with suicidalityGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
J Affect Disord 120:32-9. 2010..We report the lifetime and 12-month prevalence and associations of mental health treatment among Mexican adolescents with suicide-related outcomes (SROs; including ideation, plans, gestures and attempts)... - Delay of first treatment of mental and substance use disorders in MexicoGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry and the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
Am J Public Health 97:1638-43. 2007..We studied failure and delay in making initial treatment contact after the first onset of a mental or substance use disorder in Mexico as a first step to understanding barriers to providing effective treatment in Mexico... - Treatment and adequacy of treatment of mental disorders among respondents to the Mexico National Comorbidity SurveyGuilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calzada Mexico Xochimilco No 101, Col San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico D F C P 14370, Mexico
Am J Psychiatry 163:1371-8. 2006..This study described the rate and adequacy of mental health service use among participants in the Mexico National Comorbidity Survey and the correlates of any 12-month treatment and of adequate treatment... - Chronic childhood adversity and onset of psychopathology during three life stages: childhood, adolescence and adulthoodCorina Benjet
Department of Epidemiologic and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente, Mexico City, Mexico
J Psychiatr Res 44:732-40. 2010.... - Suicide ideation, plan, and attempt in the Mexican adolescent mental health surveyGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:41-52. 2008..No representative data among adolescents in Mexico exist on the prevalence and risk factors for suicide ideation, plan, and attempt despite a recent increase in suicide deaths... - Traumatic life events and posttraumatic stress disorder among Mexican adolescents: results from a surveyRicardo Orozco
Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 50:S29-37. 2008..To estimate the prevalence and the association of Traumatic Life Events (LEs) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) adolescent population... - DSM-IV personality disorders in Mexico: results from a general population surveyCorina Benjet
Investigaciones Epidemiologicas y Psicosociales, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico, D F, Mexico
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 30:227-34. 2008..This paper reports the first population estimates of prevalence and correlates of personality disorders in the Mexican population... - Traumatic events and suicide-related outcomes among Mexico City adolescentsGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:654-66. 2008..We report the prevalence and associations between traumatic events and suicidal ideation, suicide plans and suicide attempts among Mexican adolescents... - Psychiatric disorders in Mexico: lifetime prevalence in a nationally representative sampleMaria Elena Medina Mora
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, 101, Mexico
Br J Psychiatry 190:521-8. 2007..No national data on lifetime prevalence and risk factors for DSM-IV psychiatric disorders are available in Mexico... - A case-control study of alcohol and substance use disorders as risk factors for non-fatal injuryGuilherme Borges
Metropolitan Autonomous University Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
Alcohol Alcohol 40:257-62. 2005..To report the association of AUD and SUD, according to diagnostic and statistics manual of mental disorders-IV (DSM-IV) and international classification of diseases 10 (ICD-10) criteria, and the risk of non-fatal injuries... - Descriptive epidemiology of chronic childhood adversity in Mexican adolescentsCorina Benjet
National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente, Division of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research, Mexico City, Mexico
J Adolesc Health 45:483-9. 2009..To estimate the prevalence of adversity (neglect and abuse, parental loss, parental psychopathology, economic adversity, and serious physical illness), the interrelatedness of adversities, and their socio-demographic correlates... - The effect of migration to the United States on substance use disorders among returned Mexican migrants and families of migrantsGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry and the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
Am J Public Health 97:1847-51. 2007..We examined the association between substance use disorders and migration to the United States in a nationally representative sample of the Mexican population... - [Early onset depression: prevalence, course, and treatment seeking delay]Corina Benjet
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 46:417-24. 2004..To estimate the prevalence of early onset depression in the Mexican population and compare its natural history, comorbidity and treatment latency between early onset and adult onset depression... - Body mass index and its relationship to mental disorders in the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health SurveyGuilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 52:103-10. 2010..To assess the association between body mass index (BMI) and the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Mexico City adolescents... - [Suicide and suicidal behaviors in Mexico: Retrospective and current status]Guilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 52:292-304. 2010..To summarize the epidemiology of completed suicide and suicidal behavior in Mexico... - [The role of epidemiology in mental disorder research]Guilherme Borges
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Salud Publica Mex 46:451-63. 2004.... - Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of drug use among adolescents: results from the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health SurveyCorina Benjet
National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente, Colonia San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico
Addiction 102:1261-8. 2007..To estimate the life-time and 12-month prevalence of illicit drug use among Mexican adolescents, the age of onset of first drug use and the socio-demographic correlates... - Drug use opportunities and the transition to drug use among adolescents from the Mexico City Metropolitan AreaCorina Benjet
National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente, Calzada Mexico Xochimilco 101, Colonia San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico DF 14370, Mexico
Drug Alcohol Depend 90:128-34. 2007..Given the increase in opportunity among older adolescents, preventive efforts should start by age 12 and with special attention to adolescents who have dropped out of school... - The meanings of emotional ailments in a marginalized community in Mexico CityJazmín Mora-Ríos
Health Offices of Epidemiological and Social Research, Nacional Institute of Psychiatry Dr Ramon de la Fuente Muñíz, Mexico City, Mexico
Qual Health Res 18:830-42. 2008.... - A cross-national study on Mexico-US migration, substance use and substance use disordersGuilherme Borges
National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada Mexico Xochimilco No 101 Col San Lorenzo Huipulco, Mexico DF, CP 14370 Mexico City, Mexico
Drug Alcohol Depend 117:16-23. 2011..We aimed to study immigration, US nativity, and return migration as risk factors for alcohol and drug use among people of Mexican origin in both the US and Mexico...