Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey
Journal Article
Raeside, R., Gayen, K., & Canduela, J. (2010)
Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 5, 163-178
Many European countries are facing a future of an ageing society. This has arisen from a prolonged period of low fertility. To provide support for the elderly reliance is ofte...
Modelling the Influence of Communication on
Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh.
Thesis
Gayen, K. Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh. (Thesis)
Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2783
The total fertility rate in Bangladesh declined from 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.3 in 1997-1999. This decline of 48 per cent over a 25-year period occurred without a
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Social networks, normative influence and health delivery in rural Bangladesh.
Journal Article
Gayen, K. & Raeside, R. (2007)
Social networks, normative influence and health delivery in rural Bangladesh. Social Science and Medicine. 65, 900-914. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.037. ISSN 0277-9536
This paper examines the association of social networks with the experience of neonatal death and the type of assistance that a woman obtains at childbirth in rural Bangladesh....
Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh
Journal Article
Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh. Social Science and Medicine, 71(9), 1584-1592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.08.002
This paper analyzed the association of social networks with contraceptive use using both structural and attitudinal properties of social networks. Data were collected from sev...
Social networks, age cohorts and employment
Journal Article
Gayen, K., McQuaid, R. W., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Social networks, age cohorts and employment. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 30, 219-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443331011054208
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association of social networks with being in work, contrasting those under age 50 with those over 50 years.
Design/m...
Communication and contraception in rural Bangladesh.
Journal Article
Gayen, K. & Raeside, R. (2005)
Communication and contraception in rural Bangladesh. World Health and Population. 8, 57-73. ISSN 1718-3340
This paper examines the association of communication in explaining the decision of women in rural Bangladesh to use or not to use contraception. Using survey data from village...
Social network analysis to study social capital and development
Journal Article
Raeside, R., & Gayen, K. (2009)
Social network analysis to study social capital and development. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 3, 75-88
It is widely recognised that individuals with high social capital are important in either promoting or acting as inhibitors to the diffusion of knowledge and information. It i...
Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh
Journal Article
Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36(6), 827-834. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2010.01099.x
Background Child deaths are decreasing throughout South East Asia, yet the rate remains high and is a cause of considerable anguish. In Bangladesh, there is also a great deal...