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| Tim A BrucknerSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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A test of maternal human chorionic gonadotropin during pregnancy as an adaptive filter of human gestationsTim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health and Department of Planning, Policy and Design, University of California at Irvine, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:4604-10. 2012..Findings support the RFS hypothesis for the parity expectation but not for the IBI expectation. Further evidence for the RFS hypothesis among contemporary human gestations would have to invoke screening mechanisms other than hCG...
Intrauterine stress and male cohort quality: the case of September 11, 2001Tim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health and Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California at Irvine, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Soc Sci Med 76:107-14. 2013..Contemporary population stressors may induce male-specific culling, thereby resulting in relatively improved development among males that survive to birth...
Voluntary psychiatric emergencies in Los Angeles County after funding of California's Mental Health Services ActTim A Bruckner
Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697 7075, USA
Psychiatr Serv 63:808-14. 2012..Los Angeles County, the most populous county in California, was examined...
Health care supply and county-level variation in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder prescription medicationsTim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health and Planning, Policy and Design, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 7075, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 21:442-9. 2012..We examine, across counties in the USA, whether the use of prescription medications to treat ADHD varies positively with supply-side healthcare characteristics...
Transient cultural influences on infant mortality: Fire-Horse daughters in JapanTim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health and Planning, Policy and Design, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Am J Hum Biol 23:586-91. 2011..We test this hypothesis in industrialized Japan in 1966 when cultural aversion to females born in the astrological year of the Fire-Horse may have jeopardized the life of female infants...
Positive income shocks and accidental deaths among Cherokee Indians: a natural experimentTim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health and Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 40:1083-90. 2011..We test this hypothesis directly by capitalizing on a natural experiment in which Cherokee Indians in rural North Carolina received discrete lump sum payments from a new casino...
The mental health workforce gap in low- and middle-income countries: a needs-based approachTim A Bruckner
Department of Public Health and Planning, Policy and Design, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 7075, USA
Bull World Health Organ 89:184-94. 2011..To estimate the shortage of mental health professionals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)...
Involuntary civil commitments after the implementation of California's Mental Health Services ActTim A Bruckner
Department of Public Health, University of California, Irvine, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697 7075, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:1006-11. 2010....
Male fetal loss in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001Tim A Bruckner
Public Health and Planning, Policy and Design, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 10:273. 2010..We test the communal bereavement hypothesis among gravid women by examining whether male fetal deaths rose above expected levels in the US following September 11, 2001...
From paradox to disparity: trends in neonatal death in very low birth weight non-Hispanic black and white infants, 1989-2004Tim A Bruckner
Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
J Pediatr 155:482-7. 2009....
Metropolitan economic decline and infant mortality due to unintentional injuryTim A Bruckner
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 50 University Hall, 7360, Berkeley, CA 94704 7360, USA
Accid Anal Prev 40:1797-803. 2008..I discuss my findings in relation to the literature concerned with parental distraction, describe other mechanisms through which the economy may affect IMUI, and recommend further investigation...
Increased neonatal mortality among normal-weight births beyond 41 weeks of gestation in CaliforniaTim A Bruckner
Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 199:421.e1-7. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine whether postterm gestational age increases the risk of neonatal mortality...
