M Puri
Biographic Data
| ID | 144051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Puri |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Puri |
| SIGNATURE | PURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Health and Population |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2913-1480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prevalence and types of lower limb conditions in Nepal
Background Understanding the burden of lower limb conditions (LLCs) is essential for effective health planning, yet data in low-resource settings like Nepal is scarce. LLCs, encompassing diverse issues such as pain, injuries and amputations, can profoundly impact mobility, well-being, and livelihoods. With limited healthcare access and growing non-communicable diseases, the scale and impact of LLCs in Nepal remain unknown. This study estimates th…
Generational trends in the transition to womanhood in lowland rural Nepal
OBJECTIVE: In South Asia, studies show secular trends toward slightly later women's marriage and first reproduction. However, data on related biological and social events, such as menarche and age of coresidence with husband, are often missing from these analyses. We assessed generational trends in key life events marking the transition to womanhood in rural lowland Nepal. METHODS: We used data on 110 co-resident mother-in-law (MIL) and daughter-…
Integrating postpartum IUD counselling and insertion into routine maternity care in Nepal
To meet the postpartum family planning (PPFP) needs of women in Nepal, an intervention was launched to integrate PPFP counselling and postpartum IUD (PPIUD) insertion into maternity care. Women delivering in study hospitals over a period of 18 months were interviewed at the time of delivery and at 15 months following the end of the study enrollment period to assess if the impact of the intervention observed at the end of the study was maintained.…
The relationship between the gendered norm of eating last and mental health of newly married women in Nepal
Eating last is a gendered cultural norm in which the youngest daughters-in-law are expected to eat last after serving others in the household, including men and in-laws. Using women's eating last as an indicator of women's status, we studied the association between eating last and women's mental health. Using four rounds of prospective cohort data of 18-25-year-old newly married women (n = 200) cohabiting with mothers-in-law between 2018 and 2020…
Adapting and Validating the G‐Norm (Gender Norms Scale) in Nepal
Research calls for the sexual and reproductive rights field to prioritize gender norms to ensure that women can act on their reproductive rights. However, there is a gap in accepted measures. We addressed this by including important theoretical components of gender norms: differentiating between descriptive and injunctive norms and adding a referent group. Our team originally developed and validated the G‐NORM, a gender norms scale, in India. In …
Barriers and opportunities to restricting marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children in Nepal
This is the first study conducted in Nepal examining the lack of restrictions on marketing unhealthy foods to children. Our findings reflect the manifestation of power in the policy process. The absence of civil society and a multi-stakeholder coalition demanding change on marketing of unhealthy food to children, the threat of private sector interference in introducing marketing restrictions, the promotion of norms and narratives around modernity…
No One Left Behind
This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilit…
Developing and testing measures of reproductive decision-making agency in Nepal
Conceptual ambiguity in how we define reproductive empowerment has left the field with inconclusive evidence of its relationship to key reproductive outcomes. Our study aimed to develop and test a measure of reproductive decision-making agency, which is a critical component of reproductive empowerment, in a sample of married women from two Nepalese districts. Initial measures were developed based on theory and previous literature. Next, we used c…
Pharmacy Provision of Medication Abortion in Nepal
CONTEXT: Medication abortion has the potential to transform the provision of safe abortion care in low- and middle-income countries, and can be provided with minimal clinical skills and equipment. In Nepal, first-trimester abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol is legally available at government-certified health facilities, but little is known about pharmacy workers' perspectives regarding pharmacy-based provision. METHODS: In-depth intervie…
Abortion Incidence and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal
CONTEXT: Although abortion has been legal under broad criteria in Nepal since 2002, a significant proportion of women continue to obtain illegal, unsafe abortions, and no national estimates exist of the incidence of safe and unsafe abortions. METHODS: Data were collected in 2014 from a nationally representative sample of 386 facilities that provide legal abortions or postabortion care and a survey of 134 health professionals knowledgeable about a…
South–south mobility
This paper reports the results of a three-country study of the social, economic and health vulnerabilities of migrants from Bangladesh and Nepal living in India and of returnees. Overall, migration was found to be economically beneficial for those who succeed in the host labour market. However, it is associated with significant psychosocial and health vulnerabilities for most migrants in both communities. Further, migrants returning to their home…
Optimism and economic choice☆
In forests and factories
In Nepal, it is commonly assumed that young people migrating to Kathmandu Valley for work in carpet and garment factories are at risk from negative sexual health outcomes. Greater independence and mixed‐sex housing could lead young people to initiate sexual behaviour earlier, and have more sexual partners, than they would in rural communities. A recent survey among factory workers, however, suggested that sexual knowledge and experience were ofte…
Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries
Journal Article Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries Get access Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries. Essays in Honour of H. W. SINGER. Edited by A. CAIRNCROSS and M. PURI. (London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. viii + 264. £12.00.) Anthony Bottomley Anthony Bottomley University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
No One Left Behind
This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilit…
Adapting and Validating the G‐Norm (Gender Norms Scale) in Nepal
Research calls for the sexual and reproductive rights field to prioritize gender norms to ensure that women can act on their reproductive rights. However, there is a gap in accepted measures. We addressed this by including important theoretical components of gender norms: differentiating between descriptive and injunctive norms and adding a referent group. Our team originally developed and validated the G‐NORM, a gender norms scale, in India. In …
South–south mobility
This paper reports the results of a three-country study of the social, economic and health vulnerabilities of migrants from Bangladesh and Nepal living in India and of returnees. Overall, migration was found to be economically beneficial for those who succeed in the host labour market. However, it is associated with significant psychosocial and health vulnerabilities for most migrants in both communities. Further, migrants returning to their home…
Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries
Journal Article Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries Get access Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries. Essays in Honour of H. W. SINGER. Edited by A. CAIRNCROSS and M. PURI. (London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. viii + 264. £12.00.) Anthony Bottomley Anthony Bottomley University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries
Journal Article Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries Get access Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy. Problems of the Developing Countries. Essays in Honour of H. W. SINGER. Edited by A. CAIRNCROSS and M. PURI. (London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. viii + 264. £12.00.) Anthony Bottomley Anthony Bottomley University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
In forests and factories
In Nepal, it is commonly assumed that young people migrating to Kathmandu Valley for work in carpet and garment factories are at risk from negative sexual health outcomes. Greater independence and mixed‐sex housing could lead young people to initiate sexual behaviour earlier, and have more sexual partners, than they would in rural communities. A recent survey among factory workers, however, suggested that sexual knowledge and experience were ofte…
Optimism and economic choice☆
Abortion Incidence and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal
CONTEXT: Although abortion has been legal under broad criteria in Nepal since 2002, a significant proportion of women continue to obtain illegal, unsafe abortions, and no national estimates exist of the incidence of safe and unsafe abortions. METHODS: Data were collected in 2014 from a nationally representative sample of 386 facilities that provide legal abortions or postabortion care and a survey of 134 health professionals knowledgeable about a…
South–south mobility
This paper reports the results of a three-country study of the social, economic and health vulnerabilities of migrants from Bangladesh and Nepal living in India and of returnees. Overall, migration was found to be economically beneficial for those who succeed in the host labour market. However, it is associated with significant psychosocial and health vulnerabilities for most migrants in both communities. Further, migrants returning to their home…
Pharmacy Provision of Medication Abortion in Nepal
CONTEXT: Medication abortion has the potential to transform the provision of safe abortion care in low- and middle-income countries, and can be provided with minimal clinical skills and equipment. In Nepal, first-trimester abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol is legally available at government-certified health facilities, but little is known about pharmacy workers' perspectives regarding pharmacy-based provision. METHODS: In-depth intervie…
Developing and testing measures of reproductive decision-making agency in Nepal
Conceptual ambiguity in how we define reproductive empowerment has left the field with inconclusive evidence of its relationship to key reproductive outcomes. Our study aimed to develop and test a measure of reproductive decision-making agency, which is a critical component of reproductive empowerment, in a sample of married women from two Nepalese districts. Initial measures were developed based on theory and previous literature. Next, we used c…
Barriers and opportunities to restricting marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children in Nepal
This is the first study conducted in Nepal examining the lack of restrictions on marketing unhealthy foods to children. Our findings reflect the manifestation of power in the policy process. The absence of civil society and a multi-stakeholder coalition demanding change on marketing of unhealthy food to children, the threat of private sector interference in introducing marketing restrictions, the promotion of norms and narratives around modernity…
No One Left Behind
This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilit…
Integrating postpartum IUD counselling and insertion into routine maternity care in Nepal
To meet the postpartum family planning (PPFP) needs of women in Nepal, an intervention was launched to integrate PPFP counselling and postpartum IUD (PPIUD) insertion into maternity care. Women delivering in study hospitals over a period of 18 months were interviewed at the time of delivery and at 15 months following the end of the study enrollment period to assess if the impact of the intervention observed at the end of the study was maintained.…
The relationship between the gendered norm of eating last and mental health of newly married women in Nepal
Eating last is a gendered cultural norm in which the youngest daughters-in-law are expected to eat last after serving others in the household, including men and in-laws. Using women's eating last as an indicator of women's status, we studied the association between eating last and women's mental health. Using four rounds of prospective cohort data of 18-25-year-old newly married women (n = 200) cohabiting with mothers-in-law between 2018 and 2020…
Adapting and Validating the G‐Norm (Gender Norms Scale) in Nepal
Research calls for the sexual and reproductive rights field to prioritize gender norms to ensure that women can act on their reproductive rights. However, there is a gap in accepted measures. We addressed this by including important theoretical components of gender norms: differentiating between descriptive and injunctive norms and adding a referent group. Our team originally developed and validated the G‐NORM, a gender norms scale, in India. In …
Generational trends in the transition to womanhood in lowland rural Nepal
OBJECTIVE: In South Asia, studies show secular trends toward slightly later women's marriage and first reproduction. However, data on related biological and social events, such as menarche and age of coresidence with husband, are often missing from these analyses. We assessed generational trends in key life events marking the transition to womanhood in rural lowland Nepal. METHODS: We used data on 110 co-resident mother-in-law (MIL) and daughter-…
Prevalence and types of lower limb conditions in Nepal
Background Understanding the burden of lower limb conditions (LLCs) is essential for effective health planning, yet data in low-resource settings like Nepal is scarce. LLCs, encompassing diverse issues such as pain, injuries and amputations, can profoundly impact mobility, well-being, and livelihoods. With limited healthcare access and growing non-communicable diseases, the scale and impact of LLCs in Nepal remain unknown. This study estimates th…
Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Demography (4 works)