Ralph Catalano, Ph.D., M.R.P.
Professor of Public Health
PHONE: (510) 642-3103
FAX: (510) 588-4715
LOCATION: 215 University Hall
E-MAIL: rayc@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
- Economic antecedents of specialty mental health services utilization
- Economic antecedents of stress related illness
Selected Publications
Catalano, R and Bruckner, T. (2006) Secondary Sex Ratios and Male Lifespan: Damaged or Culled Cohorts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103: 1639–1643.
Bruckner, T. and Catalano, R. (2006). Economic Antecedents of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Annals of Epidemiology. 16: 415-422.
Catalano, R. and Bruckner, T. (2006). Child Mortality and Cohort Life Span: A Test of Diminished Entelechy. International Journal of Epidemiology. 35: 1264 – 1269.
Catalano, R., Bruckner, T., Marks, A., and Eskenazi, B. (2006). Exogenous Shocks to the Human Sex Ratio: The Case of September 11th in New York City. Human Reproduction. 21: 3127 - 3131.
Kessell, E., Catalano, R., Christy, A., and Monahan, J. (2006). Unemployment and the Incidence of Involuntary Psychiatric Examinations Based on Risk of Harm to Others: Evidence from Florida. Psychiatric Services. 57: 1435-1439.
Kessell, E., and Catalano, R. (2006). Mass Layoffs and Tolerance for Mental Illness: Racial Differences in the Economy's Effect on Coerced Treatment. In Kieselbach, T., Winefield, A.H., Boyd, C. & Anderson, S. (Eds). Unemployment and health: International and interdisciplinary perspectives. Bowen Hills Qld: Australian Academic Press.
Catalano, R., and Bruckner, T. (2006). Male lifespan and the secondary sex ratio. American Journal of Human Biology. 18:783-790.
Catalano, R. & Bruckner, T. (2005). Economic antecedents of the Swedish sex ratio. Social Science and Medicine, 60:537-543.
Catalano, R., Bruckner, T., Gould, J., Eskenazi, B., and Anderson, B. (2005). Sex ratios in California following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Human Reproduction, 20:1221-1227.
Catalano, R., Coffman, J., Bloom, J., Kang, S., & Ma, Y. (2005). The Impact of Capitated Financing on Psychiatric Emergency Services. Psychiatric Services, 56:685-690.
Catalano, R., Kessell, E., Christie, A., and Monahan, J. (2005). Involuntary examinations for danger to others in Florida following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Psychiatric Services, 56:858-862.
Catalano, R., Bruckner, T., Anderson, B., and Gould, J. (2005). Fetal Death Sex Ratios: A Test of the Economic Stress Hypothesis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 34:944–948.
Catalano, R., Bruckner, T., Hartig, T., & Ong, M. (2005). Population stress and the Swedish sex ratio. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.19: 413–420.
Catalano, R. and Bellows, B. (2005). If Economic Expansion Threatens Public Health, Should Epidemiologists Recommend Recession? International Journal of Epidemiology. 34: 1212-1213.
Catalano, R., Kessell, E., McConnell, W., & Pirkle, E. (2004). Psychiatric Emergencies Following the Attacks of September 11, 2001. Psychiatric Services, 55:163-166.
Catalano, R. & Hartig, T. (2004). Economic Predictors of Admissions to Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment in Sweden. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39:305-310.
Shumway, M., Unick, J., McConnell, W., Catalano, R., & Forster, P. (2004). Measuring Community Preferences for Public Mental Health Services: Pilot Test of a Mail Survey Method. Community Mental Health Journal, 40: 282-295.
Catalano, R. & Maus, M. (2004). Economic Antecedents of Temporal Variation in the Incidence of Ocular Trauma. Opthalmic Epidemiology, 11:279-290.
Profile updated: January 30, 2007