Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHOD...
Daniel J. Klionsky, Amal Kamal Abdel‐Aziz, Sara Abdelfatah, Mahmoud Abdellatif et al.
autophagic responses. Here, we critically discuss current methods of assessing autophagy and the information they can, or cannot, provide. Our ultimate goal is to encourage intellectual and technical innovation in the field.
Stanislav Kolenikov, Gustavo Ángeles
The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare studies. This paper explores the ways discrete data can be incorporated into PCA. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA a...
Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou, Mariachiara Di Cesare et al.
Abstract Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2...
Nurul Islam, G Angeles, A. Q. M. Mahbub, Peter Lance et al.
This report presents results from a census and mapping of slums in the six main cities of Bangladesh in 2005. This effort has generated a wealth of information about the location and basic characteristics of their slums. The outputs include detailed maps of the six cities providing timely informatio...
Rajesh Das, Md. Rakib Hasan, Sohel Daria, Md. Rabiul Islam
OBJECTIVES: Mental health problems significantly increased worldwide during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At the early stage of the outbreak, the government of Bangladesh imposed lockdown and quarantine approaches to prevent the spread of the virus, which impacted people's daily life and heal...
Kaufui V. Wong, Andrew Paddon, Alfredo Jimenez
Medical and health researchers have shown that fatalities during heat waves are most commonly due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, primarily from heat's negative effect on the cardiovascular system. In an attempt to control one's internal temperature, the body’s natural instinct is to cir...
Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs in other sectors. However, there is a dearth o...
John H. Bodley
List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems Nature and Scope of the Problems World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, 1992 UN Millennium Goals Crisis Awareness and Response Significance of Culture Scale Uniqueness of Tribal S...
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge Part I: Values, Structure, and Variation in the Muslim Family 1. Islamic Values among American Muslims Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith 2. Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives Louise Cainkar 3. Turkish-Americ...
William Sambisa, Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.
This study explores the prevalence and correlates of past-year physical violence against women in slum and nonslum areas of urban Bangladesh. The authors use multivariate logistic regression to analyze data from the 2006 Urban Health Survey, a population-based survey of 9,122 currently married women...
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Abstract Acknowledgement I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Praveena Gullapalli and Benjamin Porter for the comments and insights that have helped shaped this piece in its initial stages. Additionally, this work has benefited from my conversations with Sandra Scham. I would also like to...
Julien Potet, David Beran, Nicolas Ray, Gabriel Alcoba et al.
Access to safe, effective, quality-assured antivenom products that are tailored to endemic venomous snake species is a crucial component of recent coordinated efforts to reduce the global burden of snakebite envenoming. Multiple access barriers may affect the journey of antivenoms from manufacturers...
Maximilian Larena, James McKenna, Federico Sánchez‐Quinto, Carolina Bernhardsson et al.
Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans. Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and Denisovans distinctively in Island Southeast Asia. Our analyses are based on ∼2.3 million genotypes from 118 ethnic groups of the P...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - w...