Avijit Roy, University of Gour Banga

Publications

Books/Research Articles

Women's Health Dynamics in South Asia

Perspectives, Challenges and Innovations

The book offers a comprehensive view to understanding the complex and multifaceted world of women's health in South Asia, aligning closely with Sustainable Development Goals-3 (SDGs-3) on “good health and well-being”. It examines the critical aspects, such as maternal and newborn health, healthcare choice and utilization. It includes perspectives on environmental, socio-cultural, and individual-level behavioral aspects of women's health outcomes. Furthermore, it highlights present-day women’s health issues with the light of COVID-19 pandemics, refugeehood and mind-psychiatric epidemics. It contextualizes the women’s health rights and development landscape with evaluating existing policies, programs, and potential gaps affecting women's health and well-being. Employing advanced geospatial techniques, including spatial modelling and quantitative approaches, the book offers multidimensional insights into women's health, shaping dialogue around health programs and policies. It is a rich source for academics, researchers, graduate students and health professionals in the fields of women’s health development.

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Sustainable Women's Health

Perspectives from South Asia

The volume canvases women’s health and rights by highlighting impacts of migration, intersectionality, structural barriers, and emerging digital world. The book offers data-driven insights, policy recommendations, and innovative strategies to achieve sustainable women health. Designing three parts, the book begins with migration, marginalization, and women’s Health. The second part, Adolescent, Reproductive, and Maternal Health, highlights tribes and undernutrition, maternal healthcare disparity, menstrual justice, abortion complications and rights. The final part discourses the women’s mental health, antimicrobial resistance, and cybercrime vulnerability. This book is an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and healthcare professionals, bridging empirical research with policy-oriented discourse to foster equitable and sustainable healthcare solutions for women across South Asia.

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between environmental factors and public health, providing both theoretical insights and practical solutions. As environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution, and natural disasters increasingly threaten global public health, this book integrates foundational theories with empirical evidence to address these pressing issues. It covers a wide range of topics including the theoretical and methodological foundations for understanding the nexus between environment and public health, exploring historical perspectives and research directions. The book examines the health impacts of environmental hazards and disasters, focusing on vulnerable regions and populations with highlighting climate change associated public health challenges. Furthermore, the book shifts to the environmental pollution and public health challenges, offering sustainable solutions to mitigate environmental pollutions. The book also delves into the intersection of climate extremes, food security, and nutrition, focusing on how vulnerable countries can build resilient food systems to combat food insecurity and malnutrition. It emphasizes the role of cutting-edge technologies like geospatial tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) and advanced environment and public health data cloud to make sustainable solutions. By integrating diverse regional perspectives, the book presents actionable strategies for building resilient, sustainable environment and public health. Designed for researchers, policymakers, and environmental health practitioners, this book serves as an essential guide for understanding the profound global environmental challenges and public health burdens, learning the advance tools and techniques to delineate such issues and resilient strategies

Environment and Public Health

Insights Towards Theory, Evidences and Sustainable Solutions

Key Features

The book provides comprehensive coverage from basic principles appropriate for beginners to advanced topics for those looking for more technical depth.
Concepts are elucidated in simple language with diagrams and illustrations for better comprehension.
Logically organized chapters incorporate the state-of-the-art trends, research, and developments in the field of environment and public health.

We have confidence that these features will make this book a valuable resource for anyone wishing to master environment and health.

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The book offers readers a nuanced understanding of sexual and reproductive rights, health status, associated concerns and policy critiques within the context of South Asia. While sexual and reproductive health issues are prevalent worldwide, the severity and underlying drivers vary across regions. South Asia, identified as a hotspot for vulnerability in sexual and reproductive health, currently lacks comprehensive coverage of existing global perspectives on the subject. Intended as a comprehensive guide to understanding the sexual and reproductive health complexities, reproductive morbidity and multifaceted health policies of women in South Asia, this book will examine menstrual health as well as changing fertility behaviours among women. It will provide in-depth case studies on demand family planning, birth control and pressing issues of women’s health perspectives. The book highlights the wide range of sexual and reproductive health morbidities, including maternal health complications, eclamptic maternal death, sexually transmitted diseases, infected diseases and health disparity among reproductive women. Adopting advanced quantitative techniques in the social sciences and GIS modeling, this book offers a unique and insightful look at women’s reproductive health and its implications for shaping health policies.

Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women

Dimensions and Perspectives

Key Features

The book offers comprehensive insights into women’s sexual and reproductive health by integrating geographical, demographic, economic, and sociological perspectives.
It highlights empowering narratives on women’s reproductive rights, including abortion rights, family planning autonomy, and fertility behaviors.
The book showcases methodological diversity by featuring cutting-edge social science research methods, including mixed-method spatial approaches and provides evidence-based recommendations to shape reproductive health policies and practices.

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Man, Environment and Development: A Pathway to Sustainable Livelihood

Man, Environment, and Development: A Pathway to Sustainable Livelihood explores the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and development, emphasizing the need for sustainability. Covering themes like women's health, societal progress, economic diversity, and environmental conservation. The book integrates social science research and spatial analysis to provide a comprehensive perspective. It highlights sustainable resource use, policy implications, and innovative solutions for ecological challenges. A valuable resource for academicians, researchers, and policymakers. This book offers critical insights into achieving a balance between development and environmental sustainability for a healthier, equitable, and prosperous future.

Research Paper

39. "Assessing the non-attendance of preschooling among children under ICDS scheme in India: Insights from National Family Health Survey, 2019–21". Evaluation and Program Planning, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102589

38. Linkages Between Women’s Education and Family Planning. In: Chouhan, P., Roy, A., Kapasia, N., Das, J., Rahaman, M. (eds) Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women. Springer, Singapore, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8418-9_7

37. Navigating Academic Challenges and Psychological Well-Being: A Study Among Students of HEIs Amidst COVID-19. In Climate Crisis, Social Responses and Sustainability: Socio-ecological Study on Global Perspectives (pp. 369-381). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58261-5_16

36. "Decomposing rural-urban gap in unsafe disposal practice of child stool in India using nationwide sample survey data". Scientific Reports, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56715-w

35. "Exploring drivers of unsafe disposal of child stools in India using hierarchical regression model". Plos One, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295788

34. "Factors associated with public and private healthcare utilization for outpatient care among older adults in India: A Wagstaff's decomposition of Anderson's behavioural model". The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3771

33. "Contextualizing the standard maternal continuum of care in Pakistan: an application of revised recommendation of the World Health Organization". Frontiers Public Health, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1261790

32. “Revisiting the predisposing, enabling, and need factors of unsafe abortion in India using the Heckman Probit model”. Journal of Bio Social Science, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002193202300024X

31. "Re-examining the Nexus Between Maternal Smoking Behavior and Under-Five Children’s ARI in India: A Comprehensive Study". Environmental Health Insights, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/11786302231200997

30. "Gender differentials in poor self‑rated health (SRH) among older adults in India: the influence of household air pollution (HAP)". Journal of Public Health, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-02091-0

29. "Unveiling the spatial divide in open defecation practices across India: an application of spatial regression and Fairlie decomposition model". BMJ Open, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072507

28. "Spatial clustering and drivers of open defecation practice in India: Findings from the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (2019-21)." Global Transitions, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2023.05.002

27. "Functional disability and its associated factors among the elderly in rural India using LASI Wave 1 data". Journal of Public Health, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01890-9

26. "Does the association between religiosity, spirituality and self-rated health change with religious affiliations? Evidence from an Indian large-scale survey". Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2023.2168328

25. "Determinants of accessing healthcare services for outpatient care: A study on older adults in India". International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2022.2157072

24. "Examining the predictors of healthcare facility choice for outpatient care among older adults in India using Andersen’s revised healthcare utilization framework model". BMC Geriatrics, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03634-y.

23. "Prevalence and predictors of current tobacco exposure among older adults with chronic disease in India: evidence from large-scale sample survey". Journal of Substance Use, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2022.2146014

22. "Examining the rural‑urban divide in predisposing, enabling, and need factors of unsafe abortion in India using Andersen’s behavioral model." BMC Public Health, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13912-4

21. "Spousal violence in India: does risk of spousal violence higher among polygynous unions?." Cogent Social Sciences, 8(1), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2103945

20. "Perceived academic satisfaction level, psychological stress and academic risk among Indian students amidst COVID-19 pandemic" Heliyon, 8(5), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09440.

19. "Levels, patterns and determinants of using reversible contraceptives for limiting family planning in India: evidence from National Family Health Survey, 2015–16." BMC Women’s Health, 22:124 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01706-0

18. "Spatial heterogeneity and socio-economic correlates of unmet need for spacing contraception in India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey, 2015-16". Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 15 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101012

17. "Exploring the socio-economic factors associated with girl child marriage and its impact on pregnancy outcomes: A study from Malda district of West Bengal." Indian Journal of Community Medicine, January-March, 2022. doi:10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_7_21

16. "A mixed-method analysis of associated socio-cultural and environmental factors of child marriage in Malda district of West Bengal", SN Social Sciences, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00322-x

15. "Pattern of Contraceptive use and associated sociodemographic Factors in India: A Cross-Sectional Study of Young Women Ages 15-24 Years", Women's Reproductive Health, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2021.2016188

14. "Geographical variability and factors associated with caesarean section delivery in India: a comparative assessment of Bihar and Tamil Nadu", BMC Public Health, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11750-4

13. ''Risk of COVID-19 Transmission and Livelihood Challenges of Stranded Migrant Labourers during Lockdown in India''.The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-021-00327-9.

12."Girl child marriage in Malda district of West Bengal: analysis of prevalence and socio-economic factors". Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2021.1923878.

11. "Nuptiality Status in West Bengal: A Demographic Appraisal" Journal of Geographical Studies, 5(1), 34-41, 2021. https://doi.org/10.21523/gcj5.21050104

10. "Prevalence and correlates of menstrual hygiene practices among young currently married women aged 15–24 years: an analysis from a nationally representative survey of India". The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 26(1), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2020.1810227.

9. "Impact of lockdown on learning status of undergraduate and postgraduate students during COVID-19 pandemic in West Bengal, India". Children and Youth Services Review, Vol:116, September 2020, 105194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105194.

8. "Determining factors of institutional delivery in India: A study from National Family Health Survey-4 (2015–16)". Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2020.05.007

7. "Working Conditions of Women Workers in the Unorganised Sector: A Case Study of Stone Crushers of Lower Balason in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal". Stud Tribes Tribals, 17(1-2): 37-48. PRINT: ISSN 0972-639X ONLINE: ISSN 2456-6799. https://doi.org/10.31901/24566799.2019/17.1-2.419.

6. “Socio- Demographic Inequalities among Scheduled Caste Women: A Block Level Analysis of Malda District of West Bengal, India”. International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Management, Vol. 3, Issue 8, 2018, pp. 71-80, ISSN: 2455-6378. http://ijasrm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IJASRM_V3S7_720_71_80.pdf

5. “Spatio-Temporal Variation in Nuptiality Status: A Comparative Socio-demographic Analysis of Rural and Urban area of EAG States, India”. Review of Research, Vol. 7, Issue 10, July 2018, pp. 1-11, ISSN: 2249-894X. http://oldror.lbp.world/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=5365

4. “Nuptiality Status in North Eastern States of India: A Comparative State Level Study”. Research Journal of Social Science and Management, Vol. 07, No. 011, March 2018, pp. 144-153, ISSN:2251-1571.http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index.php?journal=tij&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=6716

3. “Inter Block Disparity in Housing Deprivation: A Case Study on Malda District of West Bengal, India”. International journal of Basic and Applied Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, February 2018, pp. 31-49, ISSN:2249-3352. http://www.pragatipublication.com/assets/uploads/doc/e77fb-31-49.13135.pdf

2. “An Analysis of Decaying Situation of Traditional Handloom Industry of Gangarampur Block of Dakshin Dinajpur of West Bengal, India”. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 2017, pp. 326-336. ISSN: 2249-7315, doi: 10.5958/2249-7315.2017.00506.8.http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ajrssh&volume=7&issue=10&article=032

1. "Socio - Economic Profile and Social Well Being of Handloom Industry Weavers of Gangarampur Block in Dakshin Dinajpur District of West Bengal, India." International Journal of Research in Geography, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2017, pp. 1-15. ISSN: 2454-8685 (Online), http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2454-8685.0303001. https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal-of-research-in geography/volume-3-issue-3/1

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