Papreen Nahar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96918 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Papreen Nahar |
| NOMBRES | Papreen |
| APELLIDO | Nahar |
| FIRMA | NAHAR P |
| AFILIACIONES | Brighton and Sussex Medical School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5817-8093 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Learning lessons from implementation of health interventions to reduce podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda
Podoconiosis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) marked by lymphedema. It develops when a person with genetic susceptibility is repeatedly exposed to environmental risk factors, particularly long-term barefoot contact with irritant red clay soils. Effective interventions rely on understanding the critical milestones an intervention undergoes which are usually underestimated. We focused on a health promotion intervention used to improve on podoc…
Women’s participation in a disease management intervention for podoconiosis in northern Rwanda
Podoconiosis is a Neglected Tropical Disease which leads to foot and leg swelling (lymphoedema) and, ultimately, severe disability. People suffering from podoconiosis often cannot continue their economic or social roles for prolonged periods of time and experience stigmatisation. Research points towards women being more affected by podoconiosis and podoconiosis disease management interventions being less effective for women. Women’s participation…
Environmental and structural risk factors for mycetoma in the White Nile State, Sudan
For decades, poor Sudanese communities in rural areas have silently battled mycetoma, a stigmatizing, disabling, neglected tropical disease. Its linkage to specific, ecology-dependent livelihoods such as farming, woodcutting and collecting and animal herding has obscured its cause and environmental and structural dimensions at both the local and global levels. This ethnographic study challenges the prevailing singular focus on the injuries that h…
Contextual aspects of implementing an intervention to mitigate podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda
Effective interventions rely on understanding complex contextual aspects of care. We focused on health promotion intervention that increases on podoconiosis awareness to mitigate podoconiosis-related stigma. We applied context and implementation of complex interventions (CICI) framework to evaluate the contextual factors for an existing health promotion intervention aimed to reduce podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda. We appli…
A critical anthropological evaluation of digital media based interventions for mycetoma in Sudan; the case of “Hope for a Devastating Neglected Disease” documentary film
Mycetoma, a disfiguring and debilitating neglected tropical disease (NTD), long languished in obscurity. Prior to 2013, limited research, ineffective treatments, and inadequate global recognition plagued the disease. However, a pivotal 2013 meeting in Geneva marked a turning point. Recognizing advocacy as a critical missing link, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) spearheaded efforts to raise awareness and address knowledge gaps. …
Individual identities and stigma inequalities
This paper illuminates that the podoconiosis stigma inequalities are shaped by individuals' identities related to gender, age, economic status, and bodily ability. Individuals with oppressive identities endure more stigma than others., and this differential stigma experience enhances the understanding of how disparities in stigma associated with podoconiosis or other SNTDs underpin health inequities. Such insights suggest integrating intervention…
The role of NGOs in mainstreaming services for podoconiosis into healthcare facilities
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have played an important role in supporting progress towards the goals of the WHO Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Roadmap 2021-30. Several NGOs have shifted from directly delivering NTD services to mainstreaming them to existing health systems. There is little information about the NGOs themselves – their organisational environments and their influence in mainstreaming NTD services and associated challenges.…
Gender and urban-rural influences on antibiotic purchasing and prescription use in retail drug shops
This study found that nearly three-quarters of all antibiotics sold were without prescription, including antibiotics on the list of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine. Men attending drug shops were more likely to purchase antibiotics without a prescription compared to women, while women customers were underrepresented in rural drug shops. Antibiotic stewardship initiatives in the community need to consider gender and urban-rur…
Motivating antibiotic stewardship in Bangladesh
We prioritised drug shops for intervention delivery to all drug shop staff and their customers to improve antibiotic stewardship. Knowledge deficits among these groups were notable and considered amenable to change using a SBCC intervention addressing improved health seeking behaviours, improved health literacy on antibiotic use, and provision of information on policy governing shops. Further intervention refinement should consider using particip…
At the margins of biomedicine
This analysis challenges a tendency in public health and the social sciences to associate India's medical pluralism with a distinction between biomedicine, as a homogeneous entity, and its non-biomedical 'others'. We argue that this overdrawn dichotomy obscures the important part played by 'informal' biomedical practice, an issue with salience well beyond India. Based on a qualitative study in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India, we focus on a figu…
MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas
This article examines challenges facing implementation of likely mHealth programmes in rural India. Based on fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh in 2014, and taking as exemplars two chronic medical 'conditions' - type 2 diabetes and depression - we look at ways in which people in one rural area currently access medical treatment; we also explore how adults there currently use mobile phones in daily life, to gauge the realistic likelihood of uptake for po…
Everyday health security practices as disaster resilience in rural Bangladesh
Health security is a relatively new concept in terms of how it is practised in disaster-prone locales. We observed 10 rural households in Bangladesh for four months using informal interviews, field diaries, and observation. The findings suggest that the everyday practises of health security involve the capabilities of “caring for themselves” in resource-constrained contexts. Understanding how households care for themselves prior to and during dis…
How Women in Bangladesh Confront the Stigma of Childlessness
In a context where motherhood is an integral part of a woman's stereotype, being childless is a devastating experience. We explore how these so-called deviant women manage this situation. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate regarding infertile women's agency, resilience, and resistance. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork among urban middle-class and rural poor women. Their life histories reveal that childl…
Understanding life through unwanted childlessness
Drawing on ethnographic work in Ghana and Bangladesh, and on a British dystopian novel, we sketch the social, emotional, and existential consequences of childlessness for women who desperately want a child, as is still common in the two countries where the authors carried out research. For these women, childlessness leads to loneliness and a sense of uselessness. Underlying these emotions is the notion that children constitute and personify conti…
Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve teasing”, experienced by Bangladeshi adolescent girls (12–18 years) which emerged from a study of adolescent se…
The importance of a positive approach to sexuality in sexual health programmes for unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh
This article explores the mismatch that exists between what unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh experience, want and need in regard to their sexuality and what they receive from their society, which negatively impacts on their understanding of sexuality and their well-being. The findings provide a picture of Bangladeshi adolescents' (12-18 years) sexual feelings, experiences, behaviours, anxieties and concerns - in particular in relation to desir…
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Suffering of childless women in Bangladesh
Research has documented that, around the world, women who are childless against their will suffer from an array of social, economic and emotional difficulties. The causes of this suffering are primarily related to their gender position in society and their gender identity. This paper addresses the impact of class differences on the gender-related suffering of childless women in the socially very hierarchically structured society of Bangladesh. Th…
Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh
Health seeking behaviour of childless women in Bangladesh
This paper deals with the health seeking behaviour of childless rural poor and urban middle class women in Bangladesh. Data for this study were collected from a northern district of Bangladesh named Mymensing, using various qualitative methods including life histories, in-depth interviews, and key-informant interviews The study shows that social class and the geographical location of the childless women determine their health seeking behaviour. L…
Women's health priorities
Qualitative research was conducted in rural Bangladesh to identify salient illness categories and perceptions of illness severity among women. Data were gathered using the techniques of free listing, pile sorting, and severity ratings. In-depth interviews were also employed for collecting examples of illness episodes and delineating explanatory models. Women's reproductive tract illnesses were among the more salient and serious health problems fo…
How Women in Bangladesh Confront the Stigma of Childlessness
In a context where motherhood is an integral part of a woman's stereotype, being childless is a devastating experience. We explore how these so-called deviant women manage this situation. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate regarding infertile women's agency, resilience, and resistance. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork among urban middle-class and rural poor women. Their life histories reveal that childl…
Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve teasing”, experienced by Bangladeshi adolescent girls (12–18 years) which emerged from a study of adolescent se…
At the margins of biomedicine
This analysis challenges a tendency in public health and the social sciences to associate India's medical pluralism with a distinction between biomedicine, as a homogeneous entity, and its non-biomedical 'others'. We argue that this overdrawn dichotomy obscures the important part played by 'informal' biomedical practice, an issue with salience well beyond India. Based on a qualitative study in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India, we focus on a figu…
Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh
Health seeking behaviour of childless women in Bangladesh
This paper deals with the health seeking behaviour of childless rural poor and urban middle class women in Bangladesh. Data for this study were collected from a northern district of Bangladesh named Mymensing, using various qualitative methods including life histories, in-depth interviews, and key-informant interviews The study shows that social class and the geographical location of the childless women determine their health seeking behaviour. L…
Suffering of childless women in Bangladesh
Research has documented that, around the world, women who are childless against their will suffer from an array of social, economic and emotional difficulties. The causes of this suffering are primarily related to their gender position in society and their gender identity. This paper addresses the impact of class differences on the gender-related suffering of childless women in the socially very hierarchically structured society of Bangladesh. Th…
The importance of a positive approach to sexuality in sexual health programmes for unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh
This article explores the mismatch that exists between what unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh experience, want and need in regard to their sexuality and what they receive from their society, which negatively impacts on their understanding of sexuality and their well-being. The findings provide a picture of Bangladeshi adolescents' (12-18 years) sexual feelings, experiences, behaviours, anxieties and concerns - in particular in relation to desir…
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Women's health priorities
Qualitative research was conducted in rural Bangladesh to identify salient illness categories and perceptions of illness severity among women. Data were gathered using the techniques of free listing, pile sorting, and severity ratings. In-depth interviews were also employed for collecting examples of illness episodes and delineating explanatory models. Women's reproductive tract illnesses were among the more salient and serious health problems fo…
MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas
This article examines challenges facing implementation of likely mHealth programmes in rural India. Based on fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh in 2014, and taking as exemplars two chronic medical 'conditions' - type 2 diabetes and depression - we look at ways in which people in one rural area currently access medical treatment; we also explore how adults there currently use mobile phones in daily life, to gauge the realistic likelihood of uptake for po…
Understanding life through unwanted childlessness
Drawing on ethnographic work in Ghana and Bangladesh, and on a British dystopian novel, we sketch the social, emotional, and existential consequences of childlessness for women who desperately want a child, as is still common in the two countries where the authors carried out research. For these women, childlessness leads to loneliness and a sense of uselessness. Underlying these emotions is the notion that children constitute and personify conti…
Women's health priorities
Qualitative research was conducted in rural Bangladesh to identify salient illness categories and perceptions of illness severity among women. Data were gathered using the techniques of free listing, pile sorting, and severity ratings. In-depth interviews were also employed for collecting examples of illness episodes and delineating explanatory models. Women's reproductive tract illnesses were among the more salient and serious health problems fo…
Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh
Health seeking behaviour of childless women in Bangladesh
This paper deals with the health seeking behaviour of childless rural poor and urban middle class women in Bangladesh. Data for this study were collected from a northern district of Bangladesh named Mymensing, using various qualitative methods including life histories, in-depth interviews, and key-informant interviews The study shows that social class and the geographical location of the childless women determine their health seeking behaviour. L…
Suffering of childless women in Bangladesh
Research has documented that, around the world, women who are childless against their will suffer from an array of social, economic and emotional difficulties. The causes of this suffering are primarily related to their gender position in society and their gender identity. This paper addresses the impact of class differences on the gender-related suffering of childless women in the socially very hierarchically structured society of Bangladesh. Th…
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Understanding life through unwanted childlessness
Drawing on ethnographic work in Ghana and Bangladesh, and on a British dystopian novel, we sketch the social, emotional, and existential consequences of childlessness for women who desperately want a child, as is still common in the two countries where the authors carried out research. For these women, childlessness leads to loneliness and a sense of uselessness. Underlying these emotions is the notion that children constitute and personify conti…
Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve teasing”, experienced by Bangladeshi adolescent girls (12–18 years) which emerged from a study of adolescent se…
The importance of a positive approach to sexuality in sexual health programmes for unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh
This article explores the mismatch that exists between what unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh experience, want and need in regard to their sexuality and what they receive from their society, which negatively impacts on their understanding of sexuality and their well-being. The findings provide a picture of Bangladeshi adolescents' (12-18 years) sexual feelings, experiences, behaviours, anxieties and concerns - in particular in relation to desir…
How Women in Bangladesh Confront the Stigma of Childlessness
In a context where motherhood is an integral part of a woman's stereotype, being childless is a devastating experience. We explore how these so-called deviant women manage this situation. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate regarding infertile women's agency, resilience, and resistance. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork among urban middle-class and rural poor women. Their life histories reveal that childl…
Everyday health security practices as disaster resilience in rural Bangladesh
Health security is a relatively new concept in terms of how it is practised in disaster-prone locales. We observed 10 rural households in Bangladesh for four months using informal interviews, field diaries, and observation. The findings suggest that the everyday practises of health security involve the capabilities of “caring for themselves” in resource-constrained contexts. Understanding how households care for themselves prior to and during dis…
At the margins of biomedicine
This analysis challenges a tendency in public health and the social sciences to associate India's medical pluralism with a distinction between biomedicine, as a homogeneous entity, and its non-biomedical 'others'. We argue that this overdrawn dichotomy obscures the important part played by 'informal' biomedical practice, an issue with salience well beyond India. Based on a qualitative study in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India, we focus on a figu…
MHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas
This article examines challenges facing implementation of likely mHealth programmes in rural India. Based on fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh in 2014, and taking as exemplars two chronic medical 'conditions' - type 2 diabetes and depression - we look at ways in which people in one rural area currently access medical treatment; we also explore how adults there currently use mobile phones in daily life, to gauge the realistic likelihood of uptake for po…
Motivating antibiotic stewardship in Bangladesh
We prioritised drug shops for intervention delivery to all drug shop staff and their customers to improve antibiotic stewardship. Knowledge deficits among these groups were notable and considered amenable to change using a SBCC intervention addressing improved health seeking behaviours, improved health literacy on antibiotic use, and provision of information on policy governing shops. Further intervention refinement should consider using particip…
Gender and urban-rural influences on antibiotic purchasing and prescription use in retail drug shops
This study found that nearly three-quarters of all antibiotics sold were without prescription, including antibiotics on the list of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine. Men attending drug shops were more likely to purchase antibiotics without a prescription compared to women, while women customers were underrepresented in rural drug shops. Antibiotic stewardship initiatives in the community need to consider gender and urban-rur…
Individual identities and stigma inequalities
This paper illuminates that the podoconiosis stigma inequalities are shaped by individuals' identities related to gender, age, economic status, and bodily ability. Individuals with oppressive identities endure more stigma than others., and this differential stigma experience enhances the understanding of how disparities in stigma associated with podoconiosis or other SNTDs underpin health inequities. Such insights suggest integrating intervention…
The role of NGOs in mainstreaming services for podoconiosis into healthcare facilities
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have played an important role in supporting progress towards the goals of the WHO Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Roadmap 2021-30. Several NGOs have shifted from directly delivering NTD services to mainstreaming them to existing health systems. There is little information about the NGOs themselves – their organisational environments and their influence in mainstreaming NTD services and associated challenges.…
Learning lessons from implementation of health interventions to reduce podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda
Podoconiosis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) marked by lymphedema. It develops when a person with genetic susceptibility is repeatedly exposed to environmental risk factors, particularly long-term barefoot contact with irritant red clay soils. Effective interventions rely on understanding the critical milestones an intervention undergoes which are usually underestimated. We focused on a health promotion intervention used to improve on podoc…
Women’s participation in a disease management intervention for podoconiosis in northern Rwanda
Podoconiosis is a Neglected Tropical Disease which leads to foot and leg swelling (lymphoedema) and, ultimately, severe disability. People suffering from podoconiosis often cannot continue their economic or social roles for prolonged periods of time and experience stigmatisation. Research points towards women being more affected by podoconiosis and podoconiosis disease management interventions being less effective for women. Women’s participation…
Environmental and structural risk factors for mycetoma in the White Nile State, Sudan
For decades, poor Sudanese communities in rural areas have silently battled mycetoma, a stigmatizing, disabling, neglected tropical disease. Its linkage to specific, ecology-dependent livelihoods such as farming, woodcutting and collecting and animal herding has obscured its cause and environmental and structural dimensions at both the local and global levels. This ethnographic study challenges the prevailing singular focus on the injuries that h…
Contextual aspects of implementing an intervention to mitigate podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda
Effective interventions rely on understanding complex contextual aspects of care. We focused on health promotion intervention that increases on podoconiosis awareness to mitigate podoconiosis-related stigma. We applied context and implementation of complex interventions (CICI) framework to evaluate the contextual factors for an existing health promotion intervention aimed to reduce podoconiosis-related stigma in Musanze district, Rwanda. We appli…
A critical anthropological evaluation of digital media based interventions for mycetoma in Sudan; the case of “Hope for a Devastating Neglected Disease” documentary film
Mycetoma, a disfiguring and debilitating neglected tropical disease (NTD), long languished in obscurity. Prior to 2013, limited research, ineffective treatments, and inadequate global recognition plagued the disease. However, a pivotal 2013 meeting in Geneva marked a turning point. Recognizing advocacy as a critical missing link, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) spearheaded efforts to raise awareness and address knowledge gaps. …
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