Social Determinants of the Autism Epidemic

PS Bearman：自闭症流行的社会决定因素 该项目旨在了解自闭症患病率的快速增长， 美国在过去的二十年里。提出了新的分析复杂的，多层次的 时间敏感的数据集，使我能够确定在多大程度上， 家庭、环境、基因-环境和诊断漂移/替代是驱动因素 自闭症的流行详细的关注和模型能够捕捉社会 网络和社会影响力是这一流行病的基础。新 开发了用于插入空间和社会网络数据的分析模型。这些 模型在适当的情况下扩展到广泛的发育障碍， 在流行程度上迅速增加。

PS Bearman ¿ Social Determinants of the Autism Epidemic This project is designed to understand the rapid increase in autism prevalence in the United States over the past two decades. Proposed are new analyses of complex, multilevel temporally sensitive data sets that will enable me to determine the extent to which familial, environmental, gene-environment, and diagnostic drift/substitution are driving the autism epidemic. Detailed attention to and models capable of capturing social network and social influence underpinnings of the epidemic are developed. New analysis models for intercalating spatial and social network data are developed. These models where appropriate are extended to a wide range of developmental disorders that have increased rapidly in prevalence.