Ami D. Sperber, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Douglas A. Drossman, Uday C. Ghoshal et al.
BACKGROUND & AIMS Although functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), now called disorders of gut-brain interaction, have major economic effects on healthcare systems and adversely affect quality of life, little is known about their global prevalence and distribution. We investigated the prevale...
Timothy Evans, Monica Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
Foreword PART I: ESTABLISHING VALUES 1. Challenging Health Inequities: An Introduction 2. The Social Basis of Disparities in Health 3. Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity 4. Health Equity in a Globalizing World PART II: ASSESSING AND ANALYZING THE HEALTH DIVIDE Introduction to Part II 5. Measuring D...
Bina Agarwal
AbstractIn recent years, the concept of 'food sovereignty' has gained increasing ground among grassroots groups, taking the form of a global movement. But there is no uniform conceptualization of what food sovereignty constitutes. Indeed, the definition has been expanding over time. It has moved fro...
Evans, Timothy, Whitehead, Margaret, Diderichsen, Finn, Bhuiya, Abbas et al.
Abstract This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of g...
P. G. Whitehead, Emily Barbour, Martyn N. Futter, Sananda Sarkar et al.
The potential impacts of climate change and socio-economic change on flow and water quality in rivers worldwide is a key area of interest. The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) is one of the largest river basins in the world serving a population of over 650 million, and is of vital concern to India an...
Abiy S. Kebede, Robert J. Nicholls, Andrew Allan, Iñaki Arto et al.
project with the purpose of exploring migration and adaptation in three deltas across West Africa and South Asia: (i) the Volta delta (Ghana), (ii) the Mahanadi delta (India), and (iii) the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta (Bangladesh/India). Using a climate scenario that encompasses a wide ran...
W.M. Edmunds, Kazi Matin Ahmed, P. G. Whitehead
Arsenic in drinking water is the single most important environmental issue facing Bangladesh; between 35 and 77 million of its 156 million inhabitants are considered to be at risk from drinking As-contaminated water. This dominates the list of stress factors affecting health, livelihoods and the eco...
Onikepe Owolabi, Ann Biddlecom, Hannah Whitehead
BACKGROUND: Abortion-related mortality is one of the main causes of maternal mortality worldwide. Laws often restrict the provision of safe abortion care, yet post-abortion care is a service that all countries have committed to provide to manage abortion complications. There is minimal evidence on t...
Abdul Kader Mohiuddin
Acne, also known as acne vulgaris (AV), is a long-term skin disease that occurs when hair follicles are clogged with dead skin cells and oil from the skin. It is characterized by blackheads or whiteheads, pimples, oily skin, and possible scarring. An intact stratum corneum and barrier, normal natura...
P. G. Whitehead, Sananda Sarkar, Li Jin, Martyn N. Futter et al.
This study investigates the potential impacts of future climate and socio-economic change on the flow and nitrogen fluxes of the Ganga river system. This is the first basin scale water quality study for the Ganga considering climate change at 25 km resolution together with socio-economic scenarios. ...
P. G. Whitehead, Li Jin, Ian Macadam, Tamara Janes et al.
The Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) River System, the associated Hooghly River and the Mahanadi River System represent the largest river basins in the world serving a population of over 780 million. The rivers are of vital concern to India and Bangladesh as they provide fresh water for people, agricu...
P. G. Whitehead, Gianbattista Bussi, Rebecca Peters, Mohammed Abed Hossain et al.
Heavy metal pollution from tanneries is a global problem in many rapidly developing economies. Effluent discharges into rivers cause serious problems for water quality, damaging ecology and threatening the livelihoods of people, especially in developing urban centres which often have a high concentr...
P. G. Whitehead, Gianbattista Bussi, Mohammed Abed Hossain, Michaela Dolk et al.
River water quality in rapidly urbanising Asian cities threatens to damage the resource base on which human health, economic growth and poverty reduction all depend. Dhaka reflects the challenges and opportunities for balancing these dynamic and complex trade-offs which goals can be achieved through...
Cordelia P. N. Rampley, P. G. Whitehead, Lorna K. Softley, Mainul Hossain et al.
Pollution in rapidly urbanising cities and in delta systems is a serious problem that blights the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, damaging and restricting potable water supply and supplies to industry (Whitehead et al, 2015, 2018). Employing new technology based on luminescent molecular...
MaryClaire Walsh, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Kristen K. Pierce, Marya P. Carmolli et al.
BACKGROUND Morbidity and mortality from dengue virus (DENV) is rapidly growing in the large populations of south Asia. Few formal evaluations of candidate dengue vaccine candidates have been undertaken in India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh. Tetravalent vaccines must be tested for safety and immunogenici...