Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Md Ashraful Alam, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha et al.
Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is critical for controlling the pandemic. Despite the development of safe and efficacious vaccinations, low-and lower-middle income countries (LMICs) continue to encounter barriers to care owing to inequitable access and vaccine apprehension. This study aimed ...
Syed Masud Ahmed
This paper explores the association between microcredit-based development programmes and domestic violence against women perpetrated by their husbands. A sub-set of cross-sectional data collected in 1999 from 60 BRAC-ICDDR,B study villages in Matlab, Bangladesh, was used. Data were analyzed to chara...
Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman
OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) against South Asian women (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Bhutanese, Nepalese, Maldive Islanders) residing in Greater Boston; to identify forms of abuse, abuse-related injuries, and help-seeking b...
Jonas Preposi Cruz, Paolo C. Colet, Nahed Alquwez, Ergie P. Inocian et al.
INTRODUCTION: Patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) are frequently troubled by psychiatric disorders and coping problems, which can pose a serious threat to their physical and mental well-being. Using religious and spiritual interventions as a means of coping with physical and mental challenges is ...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Vaccination is undoubtedly one of the most effective strategies to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its associated factors using two health behavior change frameworks: the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Planned...
Jan Nilsson, Avni Rana, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The objective of this article is to identify determinants of quality of life (QoL) and investigate their association with individual- and community-level social capital among older people in rural Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study of 1,135 elderly persons (aged >/= 60 years) was conducted in a rur...
Jay G. Silverman, Michele R. Decker, Nitin Kapur, Jhumka Gupta et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between men's reported violence against wives and their sexual risk behaviours and sexual health. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional analyses of a survey of a nationally representative household-based sample of married men in Bangladesh (n = 3096)...
Kathryn M. Yount, AliceAnn Crandall, Yuk Fai Cheong, Theresa L. Osypuk et al.
Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very early child marriage (before age 15). How the community prevalence of very early child marriage influences a woman's risk of IPV is unkn...
Li Ping Wong, Haridah Alias, Mahmoud Danaee, Jamil Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The availability of various types of COVID-19 vaccines and diverse characteristics of the vaccines present a dilemma in vaccination choices, which may result in individuals refusing a particular COVID-19 vaccine offered, hence presenting a threat to immunisation coverage and reaching her...
Gavin Yamey, Patricia García, Fatima Hassan, Wenhui Mao et al.
During the covid-19 pandemic, we have seen the best of international collective action and its limits. Global scientific cooperation drove the development of safe, highly effective covid-19 vaccines in under one year. 1 Yet we have also witnessed global vaccine inequity, 2 in which low and middle in...
Rubal Kanozia, Ritu Arya
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Bushra Sabri, Michelle Simonet, Jacquelyn C. Campbell
OBJECTIVES: Limited research exists on multilevel influences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among immigrant groups in the United States, particularly South Asians. Using a socioecological framework, this study examined risk and protective factors of IPV among a diverse group of South Asian immig...
Matthew R. Grigsby, Trishul Siddharthan, Muhammad Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee et al.
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong social determinant of health. There remains a limited understanding of the association between SES and COPD prevalence among low- and middle-income countries where the majority of COPD-related morbidity and mortality occurs. We examined the associat...
Ryo Naito, Darryl P. Leong, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Martin McKee et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between social isolation and mortality and incident diseases in middle-aged adults in urban and rural communities from high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. DESIGN: Population-based prospective observational study. SETTING: Urban and rural communi...
Vanessa Burholt, Bethan Winter, Marja Aartsen, Costas Constantinou et al.
Social exclusion is complex and dynamic, and it leads to the non-realization of social, economic, political or cultural rights or participation within a society. This critical review takes stock of the literature on exclusion of social relations. Social relations are defined as comprising social res...