River Chun‐Wai Wong, Chun Shing Kwok, Aditya Narain, Martha Gulati et al.
BACKGROUND: The influence of marital status on the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and prognosis after CVD is inconclusive. We systematically reviewed the literature to determine how marital status influences CVD and rognosis after CVD. METHODS: A search of MEDLINE and Embase in January 2...
Krishna Palipudi, Prakash C. Gupta, Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Linda J. Andes et al.
BACKGROUND: Tobacco use has been identified as the single biggest cause of inequality in morbidity. The objective of this study is to examine the role of social determinants on current tobacco use in thirteen low-and-middle income countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used nationally represe...
Lazarous Mbulo, Krishna Palipudi, Linda J. Andes, Jeremy Morton et al.
OBJECTIVE: Children are vulnerable to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure because of limited control over their indoor environment. Homes remain the major place where children may be exposed to SHS. Our study examines the magnitude, patterns and determinants of SHS exposure in the home among children in...
Anand Joshi, J P Narain, C Prasittisuk, Rajesh Bhatia et al.
Data on the burden of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Indian sub-continent are vital for elimination programme planners for estimating resource requirements, effective implementation and monitoring of elimination programme. In Indian sub-continent, about 200 million population is at risk of VL. Nearl...
JS Thakur, Renu Garg, JP Narain, Nata Menabde
Tobacco use is a serious public health problem in the South East Asia Region where use of both smoking and smokeless form of tobacco is widely prevalent. The region has almost one quarter of the global population and about one quarter of all smokers in the world. Smoking among men is high in the Reg...
Shamanna S. Iyengar, Raman Puri, S N Narasingan, S K Wangnoo et al.
Khandoker Samaher Salem, Kathryn Clayson, Mariangeles Salas, Naimul Haque et al.
Introduction Leela Fernandes Part 1: Historical Formations 1. Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again?Mrinalini Sinha 2. Construction of Gender in the Late nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hoss...
Dik Roth, Muhammad Shah Alam Khan, Israt Jahan, Rezaur Rahman et al.
This article explores changing water (in)securities in a context of urbanization and climate change in the peri-urban spaces of four South-Asian cities: Khulna (Bangladesh), Gurugram and Hyderabad (India), and Kathmandu (Nepal). As awareness of water challenges like intensifying use, deteriorating q...
Krishna Ray, Manju Bala, Sudarshan Kumari, Jai Prakash Narain
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Program (GASP) under the World Health Organization South East Asia Region (WHO SEAR) is continuing in India and neighboring countries and is being coordinated by the WHO Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL), Vardhman Mahavir Medical...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha, SA Rizwan, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Khem Bahadur Karki et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) has long been realized as an important component of the fight for global tobacco control. It still remains a major problem in countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The objective of this study was to estimate the trends of SLT use in three countries of the SE...
Yang Song, Luhua Zhao, Krishna Palipudi, Samira Asma et al.
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) MPOWER is a technical package of six tobacco control measures that assist countries in meeting their obligations of the WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control and are proven to reduce tobacco use. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) systematically...
Rijo M John, Amit Yadav, Dhirendra Narain Sinha
Southeast Asia accounts for nearly 86 per cent of the smokeless tobacco (SLT) consumers in the world. The heterogeneous nature of SLT is a major impediment to using taxation as a tool to regulate SLT. This study was aimed to review issues around fiscal policies on SLT with the objective of providing...
P.J.H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, J. Bouma, Roy Brouwer
List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. The economics of ecosystem services and poverty Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma and Roy Brouwer Part I. Biodiversity-related Ecosystem Services Jetske Bouma: 2. Park-people conflicts, rhino conservation and poverty alleviation in...
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt, Robert Wasson
Foreword - Peter P Mollinga Introduction: Placing Water First - Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt I. THE REGIONAL POLITICS OF WATER IN SOUTH ASIA National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene - Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers ...