Social Determinants of the Autism Epidemic

自闭症流行的社会决定因素 该项目旨在了解中国自闭症患病率的快速增长。 在过去的二十年里，美国在这方面做了大量工作。提出了复杂的、多层次的新分析 时间敏感的数据集，这将使我能够确定 家庭、环境、基因环境和诊断漂移/替换是驱动因素 自闭症的流行。详细关注并建立能够捕捉社交网络的模式 发展了疫情的网络和社会影响基础。新的 建立了空间网络数据和社会网络数据的融合分析模型。这些 在适当的情况下，模型被扩展到广泛的发育障碍， 患病率迅速上升。

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.