Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Margaret Newby
This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from child...
Vahé Nafilyan, Nazrul Islam, Rohini Mathur, Daniel Ayoubkhani et al.
Ethnic minorities have experienced disproportionate COVID-19 mortality rates in the UK and many other countries. We compared the differences in the risk of COVID-19 related death between ethnic groups in the first and second waves the of COVID-19 pandemic in England. We also investigated whether the...
Fiona Steele, Ian Diamond, Sajeda Amin
Fiona Steele, Ian Diamond, Sajeda Amin, Immunization Uptake in Rural Bangladesh: A Multilevel Analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 159, No. 2 (1996), pp. 289-299
Daniel Ayoubkhani, Vahé Nafilyan, Chris White, Peter Goldblatt et al.
BACKGROUND: We estimated population-level associations between ethnicity and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality using a newly linked census-based data set and investigated how ethnicity-specific mortality risk evolved during the pandemic. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study...
Monique Hennink, Ian Diamond, Philip Cooper
This article investigates social and cultural aspects of "teenage life" among south Asian girls in Britain, particularly their experiences of relationships with boys and the extent to which they become involved in sexual activities. In-depth interviews were carried out with teenage girls and young w...
Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Margaret Newby
The rapidly expanding sector of garment manufacturing for export is unusual for Bangladesh in that it employs young, unmarried women in large numbers. This paper examines data from a study on garment workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women...
Fiona Steele, Ian Diamond
Bangladesh has experienced a substantial decline in fertility that has been achieved by means of a large increase in the use of modern methods of contraception. As contraceptive prevalence increases, aspects of contraceptive-use dynamics, including reasons for discontinuation and behavior after disc...
Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Fiona Steele
Abstract As family planning programmes play increasingly salient roles in promoting contraceptive use, religion, along with other cultural factors, deserves increased attention as a variable affecting the course of fertility decline. Bangladesh provides an interesting setting for studying the influe...
Vahé Nafilyan, Nazrul Islam, Rohini Mathur, Daniel Ayoubkhani et al.
Abstract Background Ethnic minorities have experienced disproportionate COVID-19 mortality rates in the UK and many other countries. We compared the differences in the risk of COVID-19 related death between ethnic groups in the first and second waves the of COVID-19 pandemic in England. We also inve...
Monique Hennink, Philip Cooper, Ian Diamond
Detailed research on the family planning needs of Asian women is extremely important in informing public policy in the new purchaser-provider environment of the National Health Service (NHS), which was introduced in 1991. In depth interviews were conducted with Asian women of Indian, Pakistani and B...
Monique Hennink, Ian Diamond, Philip Cooper
In-depth interviews were conducted with married Asian women from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, to investigate patterns of contraceptive use and influences on contraceptive decision making. The results show two distinctively different contraceptive 'lifecycles'. Non-professional wome...
Daniel Ayoubkhani, Vahé Nafilyan, Chris White, Peter Goldblatt et al.
Abstract Objectives To estimate population-level associations between ethnicity and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, and to investigate how ethnicity-specific mortality risk evolved over the course of the pandemic. Design Retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data. Set...
Margaret Newby, Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
This article examines issues surrounding survey methodology and the research process from the experience of a study of female garment workers in Bangladesh carried out during 1996-1997 by the Population Council and the University of Southampton. The process of sampling the population of interest and...
Ian Diamond, Pete Tonkin, Rahman Ap, Noor Sa
Despite the impressive gains in contraceptive use in the past 16 years high variation is still evident across geographical areas in Bangladesh. It was suggested that religious conservatism and education are among the causes of this variation. This chapter highlights the analyses on the spatial varia...
Aparna Keshaviah, Agha Akram, Dheeya Rizmie, Ian Raxter et al.