Journal of Biosocial Science

Article	Citations
Child marriage, climate vulnerability and natural disasters in coastal Bangladesh	24
Does unintended pregnancy have an impact on skilled delivery care use in Bangladesh? A nationally representative cross-sectional study using Demography and Health Survey data	17
The burden of hypertension and unmet need for hypertension care among men aged 15–54 years: a population-based cross-sectional study in India	15
Male participation in antenatal care and its influence on their pregnant partners’ reproductive health care utilization: insight from the 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey	15
Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–2016	14
Factors associated with the number and timing of antenatal care visits among married women in Cameroon: evidence from the 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey	12
Do costs and benefits of children matter for religious people? Perceived consequences of parenthood and fertility intentions in Poland	11
Continuum of maternal health care services and its impact on child immunization in India: an application of the propensity score matching approach	11
The effects of sex, nation, ethnicity, age and self-reported pubertal development on participant-measured right-left 2D:4D (Dr-l) in the BBC internet study	10
Socio-demographic risk factors for severe malnutrition in children aged under five among various birth cohorts in Bangladesh	10
Sociocultural and economic determinants of stunting and thinness among adolescent boys and girls in Nepal	10
Influence of women’s empowerment indices on the utilization of skilled maternity care: evidence from rural Nigeria	9
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV testing among men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel modelling	9
Changes in adiposity and fat tissue distribution among preschool children from Kraków, Poland, from 2008 to 2018	8
Body mass index of women in Bangladesh: comparing Multiple Linear Regression and Quantile Regression	8
Mother’s education level is associated with anthropometric failure among 3- to 12-year-old rural children in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India	8
Understanding hard-to-reach communities: local perspectives and experiences of trachoma control among the pastoralist Maasai in northern Tanzania	7
Association between female genital mutilation and girl-child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Men and maternal health care utilization in India and in selected less-developed states: evidence from a large-scale survey 2015–16	7
Addressing reproductive health knowledge, infertility and coping strategies among rural women in India	7
Trends in and determinants of neonatal and infant mortality in Nigeria based on Demographic and Health Survey data	7
Poverty, dowry and the ‘good match’: revisiting community perceptions and practices of child marriage in a rural setting in Bangladesh	7
Comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and safer sex negotiation among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Post-abortion fertility desires, contraceptive uptake and unmet need for family planning: voices of post-abortion care clients in Tanzania	6
Postpartum and post-abortion contraceptive use among unmarried young women in Ghana	6

Parental income inequality and children’s digit ratio (2D:4D): a ‘Trivers-Willard’ effect on prenatal androgenization?	6
Risk factors for Caesarean sections in Ghana: evidence from the Ghana Maternal Health Survey	6
Cross-national data on informal caregivers of older people with long-term care needs in the European population: time for a more coordinated and comparable approach	6
Culture and domestic violence amongst ever-married women in Malawi: an analysis of emotional, sexual, less-severe physical and severe physical violence	6
Effects of parental stature on child stunting in India	6
Individual- and community-level factors associated with underweight and overweight among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis	6
Long-term mating positively predicts both reproductive fitness and parental investment	6
Age at menarche in Nigerian demographic surveys	6
Does where mothers live matter? Regional variations in factors influencing place of child delivery in Nigeria	6
Genetic load and biological changes to extant humans	5
Changing sex differences in undernutrition of African children: findings from Demographic and Health Surveys	5
Sexual debut among college students in China: effects of family context	5
Is newborn survival influenced by place of delivery? A comparison of home, public sector and private sector deliveries in India	5
Spatial pattern and determinants of diagnosed diabetes in southern India: evidence from a 2012–13 population-based survey	5
‘Asram is really killing us here’: attribution for pregnancy losses and newborn mortality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana	5
Changes in the adiposity level and prevalence of overweight/obesity among children from Kraków (Poland) within the last decade (from 2010 to 2020)	5
Induced abortion in Ghana: prevalence and associated factors	5
Predictors of the diets consumed by adolescent girls, pregnant women and mothers with children under age two years in rural eastern India	5
Is consanguineous marriage related to spousal violence in India? Evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–16	4
Do tribal children experience elevated risk of poor nutritional status in India? A multilevel analysis	4
Understanding inequalities in child immunization in India: a decomposition approach	4
Family planning communication through mass media and health workers for promoting maternal health care utilization in Nigeria	4
Critical medical ecology and intersectionality perspectives in schistosomiasis prevention and control in selected communities in Mindanao, the Philippines	4
A success story of reduction in childhood stunting and underweight in India: analysis of pooled data from three rounds of Indian Demographic and Health Surveys (1998–2016)	4
Clients’ perceptions of the quality of post-abortion care in eight health facilities in Dakar, Senegal	4
Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda	4
The Bangladesh Maternal Health Voucher Scheme: impact on completeness of antenatal care provision	4
Testing the regional Convergence Hypothesis for the progress in health status in India during 1980–2015	4
Co-existence of diabetes and TB among adults in India: a study based on National Family Health Survey data	4
Multiple realities around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among adolescents in Ghana	4
Safer sex negotiation and parity among women in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Gender contexts, dowry and women’s health in India: a national multilevel longitudinal analysis	4
Association of basic vaccination with cognitive and learning ability among children: insights from the India Human Development Survey, 2004–05 and 2011–12	4
Sequential impact of components of maternal and child health care services on the continuum of care in India	4
Can changes in education alter future population ageing in Asia and Europe?	4
Gender, sexual experiences and sexual behavioural differences in Turkish university students	4
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.	4
What has comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge got to do with HIV testing among men in Kenya and Mozambique? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys	3
Declining yet persistent use of traditional contraceptive methods in low- and middle-income countries	3
Do dietary patterns and morbidities have a relationship with primary infertility among women? A study from NFHS-4 (2015–16), India	3
The impact of lifestyle and socioeconomic parameters on body fat level in early childhood	3
The prevailing trend of consanguinity in the Arab society of Israel: is it still a challenge?	3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan	3
Disability-free life expectancy at old ages in Egypt	3
Overweight and obesity in preschool children in Turkey: A multilevel analysis	3
Rural–urban dimensions of the perception of malaria severity and practice of malaria preventive measures: insight from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey	3
Fertility transition and socioeconomic development in districts of India, 2001–2016	3
Improving use of maternal care services among married adolescent girls: an intervention study in rural India	3
Socioeconomic correlates of sedentary time during pregnancy among women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK	3
Short birth interval and associated factors in rural India: A cross-sectional study	3

Consanguinity rates among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a study on genetic awareness	3
Assessment of non-communicable disease related lifestyle risk factors among adult population in Bangladesh	3
Analysing the seasonality of births in mainland China	3
A qualitative examination of men’s participation in contraceptive use and its barriers in Tehran	3
Social environment perception and associations with overweight in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil	3
Fertility intentions among the working population of Dalian City born between 1980 and 1989	3
Longstanding health risk across the life course: The influence of early-life experience on health status throughout the life span	3
Factors influencing women’s decisions regarding birth planning in a rural setting in Kenya and their implications for family planning programmes	3
Fertility intention-based birth forecasting in the context of China’s universal two-child policy: an algorithm and empirical study in Xi’an City	3
What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?	3
Socio-ecological determinants of under-five mortality in Nigeria: exploring the roles of neighbourhood poverty and use of solid cooking fuel	3
Does choice of health care facility matter? Assessing out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic spending on emergency obstetric care in India	2
Factors affecting contraceptive use among currently married women in Iraq in 2018	2
Regional variations in child and mother’s characteristics influencing the use of insecticide treated net in Nigeria	2
Childbearing culture: a prominent context in the process of maternal role attainment in Iranian mothers with preterm neonates	2
Association between age at menarche and age at menopause among women of an indigenous population of North Bengal, India	2
Overweight/obesity among 15- to 24-year-old women in Ghana: 21-year trend, future projections and socio-demographic correlates	2
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective	2
Rising burden of overweight and obesity among Indian adults: empirical insights for public health preparedness	2
Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho	2
Frequency of watching television, owning a mobile phone and risk of being overweight/obese among reproductive-aged women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A pooled analysis from Demographic a	2
Sexual violence and self-reported sexually transmitted infections among women in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and body mass index in the BBC Internet Study: prenatal sex steroids and a Trivers–Willard effect on body composition	2
Prevalence and factors associated with Anaemia in Married Women of Reproductive age group: Evidence from North East India	2
Community-based social and demographic assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices and medical conditions related to vitamin D deficiency in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan	2
Anaemia status of preconception young married women in India	2
Contraception knowledge and practices among students in Lebanese universities	2
Mid upper arm circumference as an alternative measure to assess the nutritional status of adolescents: a study in India based on NFHS-4 data	2
Determinants of hypertension in Nepal using odds ratios and prevalence ratios: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2016	2
Patterns and correlates of ownership and utilization of insecticide-treated bed-nets for malaria control among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) in Malawi	2
What factors drive gender differences in the body mass index? Evidence from Turkish adults	2
Unnatural death in India	2
Associated factors of legal child marriage in Turkey: pregnancy and below-average intelligence	2
The role of education in child and adolescent marriage in rural lowland Nepal	2
Factors influencing menstrual regulation and its socioeconomic inequalities among ever-married women in Bangladesh: Findings from a nationwide cross-sectional survey	2
Associations between depression, height and body mass index in adolescent and adult population of Penza city and oblast, Russia	2
Burden of Anaemia, Hypertension and Diabetes among pregnant women in India	2
Association of spousal violence and women’s empowerment status among the rural women of sub-Saharan Africa	1
Declining fertility and increasing use of traditional methods of family planning: a paradox in Uttar Pradesh, India?	1
Why do women abort their pregnancies? Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2019–21) of India	1
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10–19 years in western Kenya: evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey	1
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults	1
Unintended pregnancy resolution among parous women in twelve low- and middle-income countries	1
Rounding as an indicator of bias in reported body weight in health surveys	1
Prevalence of and factors associated with insufficient physical activity among adolescents: evidence from a nationwide survey in Bangladesh	1
Parental background and daughters’ and sons’ educational outcomes – application of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis	1
Factor Associated with HIV/AIDS knowledge among males: Findings from 2017-18 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey	1
Association between women’s empowerment and diarrhoea in children under five years: evidence from the 2017/18 Benin Demographic and Health Survey	1
Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa	1
Socioeconomic factors and intergenerational differences in height of Portuguese adults born in 1990: results from the EPITeen cohort	1
Investigating the risk factors for contraction and diagnosis of human tuberculosis in Indonesia using data from the fifth wave of RAND’s Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS-5)	1
Gender and rural-urban differences in hypertension among youth in India: Insights from a large scale survey, 2015-16	1
Nutrition within the household: 18th through early 20thcentury female and male statures	1
Inter-relationships between percentage body fat, relative subischial leg length and body mass index among adolescents and adults from the Limbu community of Darjeeling, West Bengal	1
Is cohabitation as a form of union formation a licence to intimate partner physical violence in Uganda?	1
Concordance in spousal reports of current contraceptive use in India	1
Attitude towards negotiating safer sexual relations: Exploring power dynamics among married couples in India	1
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis	1
Relationship between health insurance enrolment and unintended pregnancy in Ghana	1
Risk factors and health status among older adults in Europe: a socioeconomic analysis	1
HIV testing and ethnicity among adolescent girls and young women aged 15–24 years in Ghana: what really matters?	1
Gender differences in dietary behaviours, health-related habits and prevalence of non-communicable diseases in Botswana	1
What factors are associated with forms of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth? A survey of referral health facilities in south-east Nigeria	1
Factors associated with reporting good maternal health-related knowledge among rural mothers of Yemen	1
Gender differences in social environmental factors of psychological distress among Indonesian adolescents: Findings from the 2015 Global School-based Student Health Survey	1
Women’s migration to cities	1
Variation and determinants of early initiation of breastfeeding in high and low neonatal mortality settings in India	1
Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda’s response to COVID-19?	1
Share of current unmet need for modern contraceptive methods attributed to past users of these methods in India	1
Do women with autonomy in the household experience less intimate partner violence in Malawi? Evidence from the 2015–16 Demographic and Health Survey	1
An application of Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis to improve models predicting contraceptive use in the Philippines	1
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities	1
Missing men in family planning: understanding the socio-spatial differentials in male sterilization and male spacing methods of contraception in India	1
Provider perspectives on Asram in Ghana	1
Age-appropriate feeding practices and their association with undernutrition among children aged 6–23 months in aspirational districts of India: a multinomial analysis	1
Knowledge, attitude, and practice of infertility: a comparative study in infertile and fertile Indian women	1
Prevalence and predictors of spousal violence against women in Afghanistan: evidence from Demographic and Health Survey data	1
Revisiting the predisposing, enabling, and need factors of unsafe abortion in India using the Heckman Probit model	1
Social determinants of blood pressure control in a middle-income country in Latin America	1
The suggestive nature of words. Media coverage of homeopathy, acupuncture, reiki and Bach flower remedies in Spanish press 2011-2016	1

Weight gain is associated with shorter lifespan: a longitudinal study of New Zealand soldiers serving in both world wars	1
Empirical linkages between female genital mutilation and multiple sexual partnership: evidence from the 2018 Mali and 2013 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Surveys	1
Intimate partner sexual violence against women in Sylhet, Bangladesh: some risk factors	1