Lalith Senarathna

Dados Biográficos

ID169547
NOMELalith Senarathna
PRENOMESLalith
SOBRENOMESenarathna
ASSINATURASENARATHNA L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Peradeniya
ORCID0000-0002-7073-5788
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Trends of poisoning types in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessBruna Rubbo, Thilini Rajapakse et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The implementation of national bans of HHPs led to a reduction in number of admissions as well as CF due to pesticide poisoning in hospitals in Sri Lanka, with no evidence of substitution to other types of poisonings. The reversal of the upward trend in hospital admissions due to pesticide and medicinal poisonings suggests that the bans contributed to a reduction in admissions from these types of poisoning

  • Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessJane Brandt Sørensen, Kelly Kiyeon Lee et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    Risky alcohol use is a major public health problem globally and in Sri Lanka. While a reduction in alcohol consumption can result in physical, mental, and social benefits, behaviour change is difficult to achieve. Effective, context-adapted interventions are required to minimise alcohol-related harm at a community level. THEATRE is a complex, community-based intervention evaluating whether a promising Sri Lankan pilot study that utilised arts-bas…

  • Clinical and psychosocial factors associated with domestic violence among men and women in Kandy, Sri Lanka

    Open AccessPiumee Bandara, Andrew Page et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Domestic violence (DV) is a violation of human rights with adverse intergenerational consequences on physical and mental health. Clinical and psychosocial correlates of DV have been documented internationally, but evidence from South Asia is limited, especially among men. This is a nested cross-sectional study of the control population (N = 856) of a large case-control study in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Multivariable logistic regression models were condu…

  • Sex education and self-poisoning in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessGrace Crowley, Piumee Bandara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    As sex education is potentially modifiable at the population-level, further research should aim to explore this association in more depth, using qualitative methods and validated measurement tools

  • Paediatric poisoning in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessGodakanda Arachchige Maneesha Prasadi, Fahim Mohamed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    In rural districts of Sri Lanka, acute paediatric poisoning cases were less frequent and less severe compared to adult poisoning cases (426-446 per 100,000 population). The incidence of poisoning was significantly higher among young children with compared to old children. In this study, deliberate self-poisoning among older children was more frequently seen than in other comparable countries. Because most of the admissions are directed to and man…

  • The effect of a community based health promotion intervention to change gender norms among women in a rural community in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessThilini Herath, Dinuka Guruge et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The acceptance of gender norms among women in rural villages in Sri Lanka can be changed by a community based intervention targeting gender norms

  • Social Dynamics in Rural Sri Lankan Hospitals

    Open AccessLalith Senarathna, Cynthia Hunter et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2013Citada por: 1Referências: 38

    Different hospitals produce different cultures-products of relationships between people of different staff categories and people from external community groups. These relationships demonstrate unique social dynamics in rural peripheral hospitals that form a major part of the health care system in Sri Lanka and other developing countries. Understanding the existing social dynamics might be useful when trying to implement new treatment guidelines t…

  • Changing epidemiologic patterns of deliberate self poisoning in a rural district of Sri Lanka

    Open AccessLalith Senarathna, Shaluka F Jayamanna et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    Acute poisoning remains a major public health problem in rural Sri Lanka and pesticide poisoning remains the most important poison. However, cases of medicinal drug poisoning have recently dramatically increased. Youth in these rural communities remain very vulnerable to acute poisoning and the problem is so common that school-based primary prevention programs may be worthwhile.Lalith Senarathna, Shaluka F Jayamanna, Patrick J Kelly, Nick A Buckl…

  • Personal and professional challenges in the management of deliberate self-poisoning patients in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessLalith Senarathna, Jon Adams et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2008

    Addressing professional isolation through educational and trainee programs for doctors and reducing the variance in expectations between professional groups and the community has the potential to improve delivery of care for self-poisoning patients