Katherine Hay, Lotus McDougal, Valerie Percival, Sarah Henry et al.
Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities are replicated and reinforced in health systems, contributing to gender inequalities in health. In this Series paper, we explore how to address all three through recognition and then with disruptive solutions. We used intersectional feminist theory to...
Mandy Ng, Douglas F. Levinson, Stephen V. Faraone, Brian K. Suarez et al.
A genome scan meta-a nalysis (GSMA) was carried out on 32 independent genome-wide linkage scan analyses that included 3255 pedigrees with 7413 genotyped cases affected with schizophrenia (SCZ) or related disorders. The primary GSMA divided the autosomes into 120 bins, rank-ordered the bins within ea...
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...
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)...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman, Melanie Rusch
BACKGROUND: Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage <18 years) globally. However, in South Asia, where the majority of girl child marriages occur, substantial improvements in girl education have not corresponded to equivalent reductions in child marr...
Douglas F. Levinson, Peter Holmans, Claudine Laurent, Brien P. Riley et al.
Reports of substantial evidence for genetic linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 1q were evaluated by genotyping 16 DNA markers across 107 centimorgans of this chromosome in a multicenter sample of 779 informative schizophrenia pedigrees. No significant evidence was observed for such linkage, nor ...
Jay G. Silverman, Michele R. Decker, Jhumka Gupta, Nitin Kapur et al.
OBJECTIVE: To provide an estimate of the risk of recent acute respiratory tract infection (ARI) and diarrhea among children 5 years and younger based on recent violence against their mothers. DESIGN: The 2004 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, conducted from January 1 to May 31, 2004. SETTING: Se...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Jay G. Silverman
This study examines the effects of number and sex of siblings on malnutrition of boys and girls under-5 in South Asia. Cross-sectional analyses were conducted on Demographic and Health Surveys data on children under-5 in Bangladesh (N = 7,861), India (N = 46,655) and Nepal (N = 2,475). Data were poo...
Michele R. Decker, Elizabeth Miller, Navneet Kapur, Jhumka Gupta et al.
OBJECTIVES: To assess associations of intimate partner violence (IPV) with women's sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms, and to clarify biological and behavioral mechanisms underpinning heightened STD rates among abused women. METHODS: A cross-sectional investigation of married couples (n=286...
Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal, Elizabeth Reed, Jay G. Silverman
OBJECTIVE: To assess associations between marital violence and type of contraception among women in South Asia. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses were conducted using marital violence data collected during the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys from Bangladesh (n=3665), India (n=56357), and ...
Bonnie Crouthamel, Erin Pearson, Sarah Tilford, Samantha Hurst et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, abortion is illegal except to save a woman's life, though menstrual regulation (MR) is permitted. MR involves the use of manual uterine aspiration or Misoprostol (with or without Mifepristone) to induce menstruation up to 10-12 weeks from the last menstrual period. Despite...
Kathryn Falb, Heather L. McCauley, Michele R. Decker, Shagun Sabarwal et al.
The fact that India has been identified as a destination country for the estimated 150 000 women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation each year within and across South Asia draws attention to Calcutta, a potential sex-trafficking hub [1]. Although Calcutta has been the site of sex-worker col...
Lotus McDougal, Melanie Rusch, Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj
The continuum of care (CoC) is a fundamental approach to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health policy and programs, but linkages along the CoC are inadequately understood. This article assesses linkages in reproductive and maternal health (RMH) services in Bangladesh using the 2011 Bangl...
Erin Pearson, Fahima Aqtar, Dipika Paul, Jamie Menzel et al.
Reproductive coercion (RC) undermines women's decision-making in reproductive health and negatively impacts women's health and well-being. This qualitative study explored RC in Bangladesh using in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) with violence support centre clients, menstr...
Erin Pearson, Dipika Paul, Jamie Menzel, Mohammad Abdul Hannan Shakhider et al.
Background: The Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) intervention trains existing providers to address reproductive coercion (RC) and intimate partner violence (IPV) within routine family planning counseling. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a single ARCHES counselin...