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Anne Elizabeth Brisendine

Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chapter Member: Alabama SSN
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Brisendine's work focuses on public health practice; racial disparities; developmental disabilities; and maternal and infant outcomes. Overarching themes in Brisendine's writings include the impacts of the context in which an individual lives on health outcomes and translation of research into practice.

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How Social and Environmental Factors Affect the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Publications

"Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social-Ecological Models: Understanding how Context Drives Prevalence," The University of Alabama at Birmingham, May 10, 2018.

Develops a tailored social ecological model and examines it across variables in the 2011/12 National Survey of Children’s Health. Performs a principal components analysis, cluster analysis, and multinomial regression to understand the patterns of service provision in the 2011 Pathways to Services and Diagnosis Survey. Finds disparities across a variety of measures of ASD diagnosis and service provision across social-ecological levels.

"The Weathering Hypothesis and Stillbirth: Racial Disparities Across the Life Span" (with Whitney S. Rice, Samantha S. Goldfarb, and and Martha S. Wingate). Ethnicity & Health (2017).

Investigates how stillbirth risks within and between race-ethnic groups change with age. As age increased, the risk of stillbirth increased for both blacks and whites. Shows that the disparity in risk between blacks and whites did not continue to increase with age, concluding that stillbirth does not seem to reflect the weathering hypothesis as other perinatal outcomes do.