Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Ashkan Afshin, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson et al.
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and subnational assessments spanning the past 25 years, this study can inform debat...
Tapan Kumar Dhar, Lisa Bornstein, Gonzalo Lizarralde, S. M. Nazimuddin
Risk perception, a judgment of how risk is perceived individually and communicated scientifically, helps clarify local knowledge, know-how, and experience. However, community disaster preparedness and DRR planning have often overlooked community risk perception. This study investigates how risk perc...
Peijun Shi, Ning Li, Qian Ye, Wenjie Dong et al.
Abstract To achieve sustainable development, understand-ing of the impact of global environmental change on natural resources and the frequency, intensity, and spatial-temporal patterns of all kinds of hazards should be advanced. In recent years, severe losses of human lives and property have been c...
Md. Taif Ali, Sultan Mahmud, Md Mohsin, Ashraf Uddin Mian et al.
Background: Foodborne diseases are a preventable but under-reported public health issue. These illnesses are a public health concern and contribute significantly to healthcare costs. People must understand how their knowledge, attitudes, and practices affect food safety and how they can reduce the r...
Ellen van Kleef, A.R.H. Fischer, Moin Khan, Lynn J. Frewer
Research in developed countries showed that many citizens perceive that radio signals transmitted by mobile phones and base stations represent potential health risks. Less research has been conducted in developing countries focused on citizen perceptions of risks and benefits, despite the recent and...
Saikat Ahmed, Md. Iqbal Hosan, Asma Begum, A. Rahman et al.
Nuclear energy renders itself as one of the sustainable energy sources for power production available now. But the major nuclear accident that occurred in the nuclear industry has shown that the generation of nuclear energy has an inherent risk for the environment and the eco-system. Therefore, memb...
Mohammad Lutfur Rahman
Purpose Among the many studies about risk perception, only a few deal with Bangladesh. Paul and Bhuiyan’s (2010) study has shown the earthquake-preparedness level of residents of Dhaka, but there are some biases in the data collection. This paper aims to examine the seismic-risk perception and the l...
Sadia Lena Alfee, Md. Shafiqul Islam
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Shafiqul Islam Faisal, Sadia Khan
Bangladesh, as a newcomer country, is expecting to start her nuclear power journey by 2022. Due to evident reasons, newcomer nuclear countries face several key challenges concerning the development of national nuclear safety infrastructure. The paper investigates the status of the 7 key safety infra...
Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Noore Alam Siddiquee, Helen McLaren, Md. Ismail Tareque
Background In Australia, the relationships of cultural contexts with health challenges in older culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) adults during the COVID-19 remain under-investigated. This study explored the older CALD adults’ risk perceptions of COVID-19, and identified demographics and ...
Ridoan Karim, Firdaus Muhammad‐Sukki, Mohammad Ershadul Karim, Abu Bakar Munir et al.
The adequacy of legal and regulatory framework relating to nuclear energy in Bangladesh has sparked many questions since the government took the formal decision to establish a nuclear power plant (NPP) at Rooppur. Consequently, the government has taken some measures to make a comprehensive and robus...
Bert Useem, Mayer N. Zald
Mohammed Kamruzzaman, Aminur Rahman, Daniel D. Reidpath, Sadika Akhter
Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted nations worldwide, and Bangladesh was no exception. In response, the government of Bangladesh implemented community awareness initiatives aimed at containing the spread of the virus, aligned with international guidelines and recommendation...
Md. Atikul Islam, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Md. Rezaul Karim, Masahiko Sekine
Consumption of safe drinking water is an important public health issue. In this study, we considered the risk communication topic of human health concerns related to unsafe water consumption in rural coastal areas of Bangladesh, where potable water is scarce. Our objective was to investigate the lev...
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Swapnil Roy, Sadia Lena Alfee, Animesh Pal
Public perception of benefit over risk is the de facto factor in planning, construction, operation, halting, or phase-out of a nuclear power plant in any country. Even if there are multiple pathways of perceiving risk/benefit among different stakeholders, the perception of nuclear and non-nuclear gr...