Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu et al.
Poor health and malnutrition in preschool children are longstanding problems in Bangladesh. Gut microbiota plays a tremendous role in nutrient absorption and determining the state of health. In this study, metagenomic tool was employed to assess the gut microbiota composition of healthy and malnouri...
Helen Harris–Fry, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Sanjit Kumer Shaha et al.
BACKGROUND: There has been limited decline in undernutrition rates in South Asia compared with the rest of Asia and one reason for this may be low levels of household food security. However, the evidence base on the determinants of household food security is limited. To develop policies intended to ...
David Pelletier, Edward A. Frongillo, Suzanne Gervais, Lesli Hoey et al.
Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing thes...
Sunanda Das, Jahida Gulshan
This empirical study investigated the extent of malnutrition and factors associated with malnutrition amid children aged 0-59 months in Bangladesh using Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey data, 2014. To examine the extent of malnutrition among the children under five in Bangladesh, we used Height-...
Upul Senarath, Kingsley Agho, Dure‐Samin Akram, Sanjeeva Godakandage et al.
Improving infant and young child feeding practices will help South Asian countries achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. This paper aims to compare key indicators of complementary feeding and their determinants in children aged 6-23 months across five South Asian count...
Anna Bowen, Huilai Ma, Jianming Ou, Ward Billhimer et al.
Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence. To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we evaluated a school-based handwashing program. We randomized 87 Chinese schools to usual practices: standard intervention (ha...
Md. Sazedur Rahman, Zohra S Lassi, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
<h3>Objective</h3> To examine the cross-sectional association between illicit sales of tobacco to minors, Washington DC tobacco outlet advertising practices, retail store type, the demographic make-up of the area surrounding each outlet, and the proximity of each outlet to high schools, recreational...
Md. Khairuzzaman, Fatema Moni Chowdhury, Sharmin Zaman, Arafat Al Mamun et al.
The street foods play an important socioeconomic role in meeting food and nutritional requirements of city consumers at affordable prices to the lower and middle income people. The number of food poisoning notifications rose steadily worldwide since the inception of E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the 1...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies required. Less is understood about why some countries achieve faster progress than other compa...
Victor N. Bushamuka, Saskia de Pee, Aminuzzaman Talukder, Lynnda Kiess et al.
This paper assesses the additional benefits of a homestead gardening program designed to control vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh. In February and March 2002, data were collected on the food security and social status of women from 2,160 households of active and former participants in the gardenin...
Sylvia Szabo, Md Sarwar Hossain, W. Neil Adger, Zoë Matthews et al.
As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological...
Bonita Stanton, John D Clemens
An educational intervention was designed to improve three water-sanitation behaviors empirically shown to be associated with high rates of childhood diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh: lack of handwashing before preparing food, open defecation by children in the family compound, and inattention to proper...
Igor Rudan, Shams El Arifeen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert E. Black et al.
Igor Rudan and colleagues report the results of their consensus building exercise that identified health research priorities to help reduce child mortality from pneumonia.
Jacky Dwiyanto, Md Hamed Hussain, Daniel D. Reidpath, Kuan Shion Ong et al.
Abstract No studies have investigated the influence of ethnicity in a multi-ethnic middle-income country with a long-standing history of co-habitation. Stool samples from 214 Malaysian community members (46 Malay, 65 Chinese, 49 Indian, and 54 Jakun) were collected. The gut microbiota of the partici...
Fahmida Dil Farzana, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Sabiha Sultana, Mohammad Jyoti Raihan et al.
INTRODUCTION: In connection to food insecurity, adaptation of new techniques or alteration of regular behavior is executed that translates to coping strategies. This paper has used data from food security and nutrition surveillance project (FSNSP), which collects information from a nationally repres...