Mukesh Dherani
A5017165758- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Noise Effects and Management
- Family Support in Illness
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Connexins and lens biology
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Retinal and Optic Conditions
University of Liverpool
2012-2024
Seattle University
2017
Merseytravel
2014
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2004-2008
University of Bergen
2007
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
2006-2007
University of California, Berkeley
2006-2007
World Health Organization - Pakistan
2006
Harvard University Press
2006
In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of Global Burden Disease project (GBD-2010), global and regional burdens household air pollution (HAP) due to use solid cookfuels, were estimated along with 60+ other risk factors. This article describes how HAP CRA was framed; exposures modeled; diseases judged have sufficient evidence for inclusion; meta-analyses exposure-response modeling estimate relative risks. We explore relationships factors: ambient pollution, smoking, secondhand...
In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), knowledge about health and its determinants has been integrated into a comparable framework to inform policy. Outputs this analysis are relevant current policy questions in England elsewhere, particularly on inequalities. We use GBD data mortality causes death, disease injury incidence prevalence analyse burden as whole, English regions, within each region by deprivation quintile. also assess attributable potentially preventable risk...
To examine the association of blood antioxidants with cataract.Cross-sectional study people aged >or=50 years identified from a household enumeration 11 randomly sampled villages in North India. Participants were interviewed for putative risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, biomass fuel use, sunlight exposure, and socioeconomic status) underwent lens photography sampling. Lens photographs (nuclear, cortical, posterior subcapsular) graded according to Opacities Classification System (LOCS II)....
purpose. To assess the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a rural population Northern India. methods. In pilot feasibility study, 1443 people (median age, 60 years; 52% women), were identified from enumeration 50+ age group 11 randomly sampled villages rural, periurban district Haryana, Of those identified, 87% attended an eye examination that included digital fundus photography. Fundus images graded at single reading center using definitions Wisconsin Age-Related...
Recent years have seen a proliferation of initiatives aimed at enhancing the age-friendliness urban settings. The World Health Organization's (WHO) global Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) programme has been central to these. seeking become more age-friendly need reliable ways assessing their efforts. This article describes an evidence-based evaluation tool for whose development was informed by fieldwork in Liverpool/UK. complements existing assessment frameworks, including those provided WHO,...
Trials of environmental risk factors and acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) face a double challenge: implementing sufficiently sensitive specific outcome assessments, blinding. We evaluate methods used in the first randomized exposure study pollution indoors effects (RESPIRE): controlled trial testing impact reduced indoor air on ALRI, conducted among children <or= 18 months rural Guatemala.Case-finding weekly home visits by fieldworkers trained integrated management childhood illness...
The public health significance of maternal mental is well established. Armed conflicts expose populations to events that could have long-term negative consequences for pregnant women and their children. This study explores the prevalence associated risk factors psychological distress during pregnancy, including exposure past conflict-related potentially traumatic events, in a population exposed armed conflict Swat region Pakistan. A community-based cross-sectional survey 349 two union...
purpose. To obtain estimates of the prevalence lens opacities in an Indian setting by using photographically acquired images. methods. In 11 randomly sampled villages from a rural district Haryana, North India, 1443 people (median age 60 years), 52% women, were identified enumeration ≥50-year group; 87% attended eye examination. Digital images cortical and posterior subcapsular photographs nuclear graded Lens Opacity Classification System (LOCS) II. The was based on grade 2 or higher worse...
Household air pollution (HAP) emitted from solid fuel combustion for cooking and heating is responsible 4.3 million premature deaths annually. Those most affected include women young children in resource-limited countries. The current standard practice reducing HAP exposure to replace traditional cookstoves with more efficient improved stoves. However, the relationship between reduction potential health benefits has been quantified at limited levels. Accurate personal data have not available...
Background:The current research was conducted in the Swat valley, where widespread conflict and militancy had been experienced prior to field activities. The aim of this trial evaluate feasibility acceptability a locally developed psycho-educational intervention. Methods:This mixed-methods study incorporated quantitative qualitative component. For component, participants were identified from cross-sectional earlier phase research, with Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) score ≥9....
Second hand smoke (SHS) exposure during pregnancy is associated with poor and fetal outcomes. To design interventions to reduce exposure, an in depth understanding of social cultural factors smoking behavior at home important, especially South Asia where SHS high. This study aimed explore pregnant women's, their husbands' other family members' knowledge, attitudes practices regarding exposure. Semi-structured interviews were conducted 33 participants Comilla, Bangladesh 31 Bangalore, India...
Abstract Background The northern part of the province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan experienced armed conflict since September 2007 till autumn 2011. Conflict involved widespread insurgency activity and military intervention including 2009 internally displacing 2.5 million people valley Swat to live camps, with relatives, or rented accommodation across region for approximately 4 months. It was during this period current study conducted determine whether Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder...
The aim of this study was to quantify and compare the burden disease attributable five major lifestyle-related risk factors in a UK Primary Care Trust (Wirral) using World Health Organizations' (WHO) comparative assessment (CRA) methodology demonstrate its practical utility for informing local policy initiatives. WHO CRA adopted exposure data from lifestyle survey, factor relationships published by mortality calculate deaths years life lost (YLL). Smoking remains far leading cause followed...
Home exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is highly prevalent amongst pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries like India Bangladesh. The literature on the efficacy of behaviour change interventions reduce home SHS pregnancy scarce. We employed a theory evidence-based approach develop an intervention using as agents for their husband's smoking behaviours at home. A systematic review led us focus developing multicomponent informed selection techniques (BCTs) modified Delphi survey....