Papers by Babul Hossain
BMC Psychiatry
Background Social exclusion has far-reaching consequences that extend beyond regular activities a... more Background Social exclusion has far-reaching consequences that extend beyond regular activities and access to resources and knowledge; social exclusion is a major social determinant of health. However, there is a lack of evidence on social exclusion and health outcomes among India’s older adults. Thus, the current study investigates the association of social exclusion with depressive symptoms among Indian older adults. Methods This study used information on 30,366 older adults from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) wave-1, 2017-2018. Social exclusion scores were calculated, and two broad domains of social exclusion, i.e., exclusion from civic activity & social relations and exclusion from services, were considered in the study. The depressive symptom was calculated using the CES-D score. Using logistic regression models, the average marginal effects of selected covariates and domains of social exclusion on depressive symptoms were estimated to assess the links between social...
International Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives: The present study has examined the patterns and possible correlates of coexisting mor... more Objectives: The present study has examined the patterns and possible correlates of coexisting morbidities among women aged 15-49 years based on biomarker measurement data at the national level in India. Methods: National Family Health Survey conducted during 2015-16 used in the present study. Simple disease count approach was used to calculate the multimorbidity among women. Multinomial logistic regression was applied to analyze the predictors of multimorbidity among women. Results: Almost 30% of the women had any of the selected morbidity and 9% of them had two or more morbidities. Hypertension and overweight combination (3%) was the most prevalent among women. The risk of having two or more morbidities was predominantly high among women aged above 30 years, low educated women, women from the wealthier group, ever-married women and women who were consuming tobacco as compared to their counterparts. Conclusions: From the policy perspective, the identification of groups of women vulnerable to multimorbidity will help in the selection of programmatic focus and preventive public health intervention in adult phase to reduce the multimorbidity burden among women in old ages.
Published Articles by Babul Hossain
Journal of Women & Aging, 2021
The present study investigates whether the differentials in private and public inpatient healthca... more The present study investigates whether the differentials in private and public inpatient healthcare utilization are associated with marital status for men and women aged 60 years and above in India. Binary logistic regression was applied to examine the association of private and public inpatient healthcare utilization with the marital status of the elderly. The study found that widowed men and women generally used public healthcare for hospitalization, while married men and women preferred private healthcare. Our findings also indicated that private inpatient health services expenditure was higher for married elderly than widowed elderly. After controlling all covariates, widowhood was significantly associated with higher use of public healthcare services for women but not for men. India’s current health care policy and program may be required to focus on improving the infrastructure quality of current public healthcare systems. It also needs to be favorable for vulnerable sections of society, especially widowed women, to avail better treatment at an affordable cost.
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