Benjamin G Druss

Dados Biográficos

ID5416657
NOMEBenjamin G Druss
PRENOMESBenjamin G
SOBRENOMEDruss
ASSINATURADRUSS B G
AFILIAÇÕESEmory University
ORCID0000-0003-0619-4873
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES32
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1987
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • A global scoping review of task shifting and sharing interventions to improve the mental health of people living with HIV/Aids

    Open AccessCaroline W Kokubun, Madelyn S Carlson et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2025

    People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) often experience co-morbid/co-occurring mental health conditions, e.g., depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In resource-limited settings, where provider shortages are common, task shifting and task sharing (i.e., service delivery by non-professionals) are recommended strategies to promote access to and utilization of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services among PLWH. …

  • High-Acuity Alcohol-Related Complications During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessBryant Shuey, Alyssa Halbisen et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    In this cohort study of a national, commercially insured population, high-acuity alcohol-related complication episodes increased beyond what was expected in 4 of 18 COVID-19 pandemic months. Women aged 40 to 64 years experienced 33.3% to 56.0% increases in complication episodes in 10 of 18 pandemic months, a pattern associated with large and sustained increases in high-acuity alcohol-related liver disease complications. Findings underscore the ne…

  • Addressing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Populations With Serious Mental Illness

    Benjamin G DrussARTICLEJAMA Psychiatry2020

    With Serious Mental IllnessThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will present an unprecedented stressor to patients and health care systems across the globe.Because there is currently no vaccine or treatment for the underlying infection, current health efforts are focused on providing prevention and screening, maintaining continuity of treatment for other chronic conditions, and ensuring access to appropriately intensive services for t…

  • Addressing Loneliness in the Era of Covid-19

    Open AccessNicolas K Trad, J Frank Wharam et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2020

    Prolonged loneliness is a major yet underappreciated determinant of health, 1 placing individuals at greater risk of premature death than obesity, inadequate physical activity, or air pollution. 2 With more adults than ever before living alone 3 and a large proportion of older adults without access to online connectivity tools, the US has a dangerously fertile environment for an epidemic of loneliness caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…

  • Effect of Medicaid Disenrollment on Health Care Utilization Among Adults With Mental Health Disorders

    Xu Ji, Adam S Wilk et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019Referências: 31

    BACKGROUND: Medicaid is an important source of insurance coverage for those with mental health (MH) disorders in the United States. Although disruptions in Medicaid coverage are common, little is known about the dynamic relationship between Medicaid disenrollment and MH care utilization. OBJECTIVE: We estimated changes in all-cause and MH-related health care use post Medicaid disenrollment among a nationwide cohort of adults with MH disorders. SU…

  • Characteristics of Medicaid Recipients Receiving Persistent Antipsychotic Polypharmacy

    Open AccessRobert O Cotes, David R Goldsmith et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2018

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders

    Open AccessNancy H Liu, Gail L Daumit et al.ARTICLEWorld Psychiatry2017

    Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders (SMD) is a major public health challenge that warrants action. The number and scope of truly tested interventions in this area remain limited, and strategies for implementation and scaling up of programmes with a strong evidence base are scarce. Furthermore, the majority of available interventions focus on a single or an otherwise limited number of risk factors. Here we present a multilevel…

  • Discontinuity of Medicaid Coverage

    Xu Ji, Adam S Wilk et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2017Referências: 24

    BACKGROUND: Gaps in Medicaid coverage may disrupt access to and continuity of care. This can be detrimental for beneficiaries with chronic conditions, such as major depression, for whom disruptions in access to outpatient care may lead to increased use of acute care. However, little is known about how Medicaid coverage discontinuities impact acute care utilization among adults with depression. OBJECTIVE: Examine the relationship between Medicaid …

  • Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Medicaid-covered Utilization of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

    Hefei Wen, Jason M Hockenberry et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2017Referências: 16

    BACKGROUND: Buprenorphine has been proven effective in treating opioid use disorder. However, the high cost of buprenorphine and the limited prescribing capacity may restrict access to this effective medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether Medicaid expansion and physician prescribing capacity may have impacted buprenorphine utilization covered by Medicaid. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used a quasi experimental …

  • Predictors of Mental Health Treatment Seeking and Engagement in a Community Mental Health Center

    Open AccessRuth S Shim, Michael T Compton et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2017Citada por: 3Referências: 27

  • The magnitude of and health system responses to the mental health treatment gap in adults in India and China

    Open AccessVikram Patel, Shuiyuan Xiao et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • Medicaid Expenditures for Fee-for-Service Enrollees with Behavioral Diagnoses

    Open AccessMartha C Ward, Cathy Lally et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2016Citada por: 1Referências: 19

  • Mortality in Mental Disorders and Global Disease Burden Implications

    Elizabeth Reisinger Walker, Robin E Mcgee et al.ARTICLEJAMA Psychiatry2015

  • Insurance Status, Use of Mental Health Services, and Unmet Need for Mental Health Care in the United States

    Elizabeth Reisinger Walker, Janet R Cummings et al.ARTICLEPsychiatric Services2015

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to provide updated national estimates and correlates of service use, unmet need, and barriers to mental health treatment among adults with mental disorders. METHODS: The sample included 36,647 adults ages 18-64 (9,723 with any mental illness and 2,608 with serious mental illness) from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Logistic regression models were used to examine predictors of mental healt…

  • Involvement in the criminal justice system among attendees of an urban mental health center

    Open AccessAllyson Anderson, Silke Von Esenwein et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2015

    Incarceration rates for people with serious mental illnesses are higher than the general population. However, research has been limited in regards to patterns of incarcerations for patients treated in public mental health settings. This study examines differences in lifetime imprisonment rates among patients of a U.S. urban Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) and national samples, within gender, race and education subgroups. Participants were i…

  • The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care

    Open AccessPatrick W Corrigan, Benjamin G Druss et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science in the…2014

    Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses often do not seek out services or choose to fully engage in them. One factor that impedes care seeking and undermines the service system is mental illness stigma. In this article, we review the complex elements of stigma in order to understand its impact on participating in ca…

  • Mental health-related stigma in health care and mental health-care settings

    Open AccessClaire Henderson, Jo Noblett et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2014

  • Rate and Predictors of Persistent Major Depressive Disorder in a Nationally Representative Sample

    Open AccessElizabeth Reisinger Walker, Benjamin G DrussARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2014Citada por: 2Referências: 44

  • Change in Health Insurance Coverage in Massachusetts and Other New England States by Perceived Health Status

    Satvinder Dhingra, Satvinder S Dhingra et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Citada por: 2Referências: 19

    Objectives. We examined the impact of Massachusetts health reform and its public health component (enacted in 2006) on change in health insurance coverage by perceived health. Methods. We used 2003–2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. We used a difference-in-differences framework to examine the experience in Massachusetts to predict the outcomes of national health care reform. Results. The proportion of adults aged 18 to 64 years…

  • Addressing Public Stigma and Disparities Among Persons With Mental Illness

    Janet R Cummings, Stephen M Lucas et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Citada por: 5Referências: 29

    Stigma against mental illness is a complex construct with affective, cognitive, and behavioral components. Beyond its symbolic value, federal law can only directly address one component of stigma: discrimination. This article reviews three landmark antidiscrimination laws that expanded protections over time for individuals with mental illness. Despite these legislative advances, protections are still not uniform for all subpopulations with mental…

  • Do Race, Ethnicity, and Psychiatric Diagnoses Matter in the Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions

    L J Cabassa, Jennifer Humensky et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013Referências: 34

    BACKGROUND: The proportion of people in the United States with multiple chronic medical conditions (MCMC) is increasing. Yet, little is known about the relationship that race, ethnicity, and psychiatric disorders have on the prevalence of MCMCs in the general population. METHODS: This study used data from wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (N=33,107). Multinomial logistic regression models adjusting for …

  • Public housing relocations in Atlanta, Georgia, and declines in spatial access to safety net primary care

    Open AccessHeather L Cooper, Hannah Lf Cooper et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2012Citada por: 3Referências: 4

  • Mental Comorbidity and Quality of Diabetes Care Under Medicaid

    Benjamin G Druss, Liping Zhao et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2012Referências: 28

    BACKGROUND: Patients with comorbid medical and mental conditions are at risk for poor quality of care. With the anticipated expansion of Medicaid under health reform, it is particularly important to develop national estimates of the magnitude and correlates of quality deficits related to mental comorbidity among Medicaid enrollees. METHODS: For all 657,628 fee-for-service Medicaid enrollees with diabetes during 2003 to 2004, the study compared He…

  • Barriers to mental health treatment

    Open AccessRamin Mojtabai, Mark Olfson et al.ARTICLEPsychological Medicine2011

    Background The aim was to examine barriers to initiation and continuation of treatment among individuals with common mental disorders in the US general population. Method Respondents in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication with common 12-month DSM-IV mood, anxiety, substance, impulse control and childhood disorders were asked about perceived need for treatment, structural barriers and attitudinal/evaluative barriers to initiation and conti…

  • A Day in the Life of Women With a Serious Mental Illness

    Open AccessChristina P C Borba, Lara DePadilla et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2011