Robert J. Johnston, Kevin Boyle, Wiktor Adamowicz, Jeff Bennett et al.
This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulate body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values,...
Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, Mahfuzar Rahman
Widespread contamination of arsenic in Bangladesh has been jeopardizing the health of millions of people. Residents of Matlab, Bangladesh, are among the millions at risk. Using bivariate models in the analysis of survey data, knowledge of health risks and avoidance of arsenic exposure in response to...
Nicola L. Barclay, Edward Burn, Antonella Delmestri, Talita Duarte‐Salles et al.
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in females globally. However, we know relatively little about trends in males. This study describes United Kingdom (UK) secular trends in breast cancer from 2000 to 2021 for both sexes. We describe a population-based cohort study using UK primary...
Emily L. Pakhtigian, Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, A. S. Akanda et al.
In Bangladesh, cholera poses a significant environmental health risk. Yet, information about the severity of cholera risk is limited as risk varies over time and changing weather patterns make historical cholera risk predictions less reliable. In this paper, we examine how households use geographica...
Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, Tom Crocker
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh is a widespread public health hazard. Water sources without high arsenic levels are scarce, affecting people's availability for work and other activities when they have to seek safe water to drink. While children are particularly susceptible to chro...
Sonia Aziz, K M Aziz, Kevin Boyle
The focus of this paper is to present an empirical model of factors affecting child health by observing actions households take to avoid exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis face multiple health hazards from high levels of arsenic in drinking water. Safe water sources are ...
Farah Nusrat, A. S. Akanda, Abdullah Islam, Sonia Aziz et al.
Cholera, an acute waterborne diarrheal disease, remains a major global health challenge. Despite being curable and preventable, it can be fatal if left untreated, especially for children. Bangladesh, a cholera-endemic country with a high disease burden, experiences two peaks annually, during the dry...
Bronagh Blackwood, Kevin Morris, Joanne Jordan, McIlmurray, Lisa et al.
BACKGROUND: Daily assessment of patient readiness for liberation from invasive mechanical ventilation can reduce the duration of ventilation. However, there is uncertainty about the effectiveness of this in a paediatric population. \n \nOBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of a ventilation l...
Majid Hassan Saleh Alhammadi, Kevin Brazil, Breidge Boyle
To explore school nurses' roles globally through their own perceptions of what they do and how they do it and to compare the realities for the role its representation in professional literature. A comprehensive narrative literature review, using ENTREQ guidelines, with "qualitizing" of the quantitat...
Tom Hadden, Kevin Boyle
Emily L. Pakhtigian, Sonia Aziz, A. S. Akanda, Kevin Boyle
Barbara B. Alexander, James Boyle, Kevin Milas
South Asia, the land mass consists of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka has been a crossroads of civilization and history for centuries. The cradle of two or more world's religions, the home of one billion people, hundreds of languages and dialects (800 in India...