Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (15)

Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey (2009)
Journal Article
Panter-Brick, C., Eggerman, M., Gonzalez, V., & Safdar, S. (2009). Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey. The Lancet, 374(9692), 807-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2809%2961080-1

Background: Studies in Afghanistan have shown substantial mental health problems in adults. We did a survey of young people (11–16 years old) in the country to assess mental health, traumatic experiences, and social functioning. Methods: In 2006, we... Read More about Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey.

Pathways Leading to Early Growth Faltering: An Investigation into the Importance of Mucosal Damage and Immunostimulation in Different Socio-Economic Groups in Nepal (2009)
Journal Article
Panter-Brick, C., Lunn, P., Langford, R., Maharjan, M., & Manandhar, D. (2009). Pathways Leading to Early Growth Faltering: An Investigation into the Importance of Mucosal Damage and Immunostimulation in Different Socio-Economic Groups in Nepal. British Journal of Nutrition, 101(4), 558-567. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000711450802744x

Early childhood growth retardation persists in developing countries despite decades of nutritional interventions. Adequate food is necessary, but not sufficient, to ensure normal growth where there is ubiquitous exposure to infection. Pathways associ... Read More about Pathways Leading to Early Growth Faltering: An Investigation into the Importance of Mucosal Damage and Immunostimulation in Different Socio-Economic Groups in Nepal.

Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. (2008)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Panter-Brick, C., Kilpatrick, K., & Casiday, R. (2009). Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), 758-765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.014

The purpose of this paper is to analyse household decision-making regarding resource allocation in the aftermath of a food crisis in rural Niger. International attention had resulted in humanitarian agencies launching emergency nutrition programmes t... Read More about Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis..

Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity (2008)
Journal Article
Worthman, C., & Panter-Brick, C. (2008). Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity. Development and Psychopathology, 20(1), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579408000114

As challenges to child well-being through economic disadvantage, family disruption, and migration or displacement escalate world wide, the need for cross-culturally robust understanding of childhood adversity proportionately increases. Toward this en... Read More about Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity.

Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul (2008)
Journal Article
Panter-Brick, C., Eggerman, M., Mojadidi, A., & McDade, T. (2008). Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul. American Journal of Human Biology, 20(6), 627-641. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20797

Afghanistan provides a unique setting in which to appraise psychosocial stress, given the context of persistent insecurity and widening economic inequality. In Kabul, people experience widespread frustrations, hinging on restricted opportunities for... Read More about Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul.

The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis (2008)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Casiday, R., Kilpatrick, K., & Panter-Brick, C. (2009). The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis. Disasters, 33(1), 132-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01066.x

In 2004-05, Niger suffered a food crisis during which global attention focused on high levels of acute malnutrition among children. In response, decentralised emergency nutrition programmes were introduced into much of southern Niger. Child malnutrit... Read More about The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis.

Health, Risk, and Adversity (2008)
Book
Panter-Brick, C., & Fuentes, A. (Eds.). (2008). Health, Risk, and Adversity. Berghahn Journals

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. Th... Read More about Health, Risk, and Adversity.

Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania (2008)
Journal Article
Mshana, G., Hampshire, K., Panter-Brick, C., & Walker, R. (2008). Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania. Journal of Biosocial Science, 40(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932007002295

Stroke is an emerging problem in sub-Saharan Africa, about which little is known since most research to date has been based on retrospective, hospital-based studies. This anthropological work, designed to complement a large community-based project on... Read More about Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania.

Culturally-compelling strategies for behaviour change. A social ecology model and case study in malaria prevention (2006)
Journal Article
Panter-Brick, C., Clarke, S., Lomas, H., Pinder, M., & Lindsay, S. (2006). Culturally-compelling strategies for behaviour change. A social ecology model and case study in malaria prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 62(11), 2810-2825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.10.009

Behaviour change is notoriously difficult to initiate and sustain, and the reasons why efforts to promote healthy behaviours fail are coming under increasing scrutiny. To be successful, health interventions should build on existing practices, skills... Read More about Culturally-compelling strategies for behaviour change. A social ecology model and case study in malaria prevention.