Beyond Rana Plaza: Next Steps for the Global Garment Industry and Bangladeshi Manufacturers

Globalized Garment Systems: Theories on the Rana Plaza Disaster and Possible Localist Responses

Beyond Distant Starlight: Next Steps For Creationist Cosmology

The question of how distant starlight can be seen in a young Universe has received much attention within creationist research. But creationist cosmological models need to explain much else in addition to the passage of light across vast distances. On both large and small cosmic scales there is a diverse range of trends, patterns, and phenomena that beckon some kind of explanation. Many of these...

Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories

A significant portion of the labor force in many large factories in developing countries consists of internal migrants from rural areas, who may have little information about the industry upon beginning work. We examine the relationship between workers’ migration status and the working conditions they face in the garment industry in Bangladesh. We use a retrospective panel of the wages and work...

Emergency medicine and global health policy: history and next steps

The transformation of global health and the specialty of emergency medicine are both relatively new phenomena. Over the last three decades, they have developed rapidly and in parallel. Utilizing a review of the recent changes of global health policy and practice, and a review of the changing nature and understanding of the global burden of disease and its intersection with emergency medical car...

Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Bangladeshi Ready-Made Garment Workers

To estimate the prevalence and identify correlates of anthropometry and clinical risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among ready-made garment (RMG) of workers, majority are females, come from low-socioeconomics conditions. Population-based cross-sectional study with 614 individuals aged ≥18 years were recruited from six different RMG factories. In total, of 313 male (46%) and 301 of...