Muhammad Haseeb Raza, Muhammad Abid, Muhammad Faisal, Tingwu Yan et al.
The burning of crop residue in the open field has become a significant concern for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide. This practice has led to air quality impairment, smog, haze, heat waves, and different health problems. These could be avoided by adopting sustainable crop residue manageme...
Stephen P. Luby, Mubina Agboatwalla, Anna Bowen, Eben Kenah et al.
In an earlier study in Karachi, Pakistan, households that received free soap and handwashing promotion for 9 months reported 53% less diarrhea than controls. Eighteen months after the intervention ended, these households were enrolled in a follow-up study to assess sustainability of handwashing beha...
Amy J. Pickering, Ayşe Ercümen, Benjamin F. Arnold, Laura H. Kwong et al.
increase), while other pathways were not associated. In cross-sectional analysis, there were no associations between concurrently measured environmental contamination and diarrhea. Our findings suggest higher levels of E. coli on child hands are strongly associated with subsequent diarrheal illness ...
Naoko Watanabe, Adam Wagstaff
Among the conclusions the authors reach about malnutrition rates, among different economic groups: 1) inequalities in malnutrition almost disfavor the poor; 2) it's not just that the poor have higher rates of malnutrition. The rate of malnutrition declines continuously with rising living standards; ...
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Joachim von Braun, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Akhter Ahmed
Muzi Na, Sucheta Mehra, Parul Christian, Hasmot Ali et al.
Background Household food insecurity (HFI) can lead to a poor diet and malnutrition. Yet, little is known about the extent to which maternal diet covaries with food insecurity during pregnancy and lactation. Objective Longitudinal associations between HFI and maternal dietary diversity from early pr...
Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
Poverty reduction remains the most important challenge for policy makers in I slamic communities. The W orld B ank (2010: Poverty profile in M uslim world, from http://www.worldbank.org ) estimates that approximately 3 billion people are living in poverty and 46 million more people will come under t...
B A Hoque
Handwashing is universally promoted in health interventions. Studies in Bangladesh and elsewhere have shown a 14 - 40% reduction of diarrhoeal diseases with handwashing. The perceptions and methods related to washing of hands vary widely in Bangladesh. Socio-economic factors are also associated with...
Stella S. Yi, Simona C. Kwon, Rachel Suss, Lan N. Ðoàn et al.
The Asian American health narrative reflects a long history of structural racism in the US and the complex interplay of racialized history, immigrant patterns, and policies regarding Asians in the US. Yet owing to systematic issues in data collection including missing or misclassified data for Asian...
Anrudh K. Jain, John Bongaarts
Paper based on data generated by the World Fertility Survey in 8 countries: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Peru, Guyana, Colombia, and Panama. The authors address the following issues, among others: the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding; variations in the duration of breastfeeding ...
Md. Iqbal Hossain, Baitun Nahar, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kenneth H. Brown
Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is a serious health problem among young children in Bangladesh. PEM increases childhood morbidity and mortality. Information is needed on the major risk factors for PEM to assist with the design and targeting of appropriate prevention programmes. To compare the unde...
Subhasish Das, Md. Golam Rasul, Md. Shabab Hossain, Ar-Rafi Khan et al.
INTRODUCTION: We conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess the extent and to identify the determinants of food insecurity and coping strategies in urban and rural households of Bangladesh during the month-long, COVID-19 lockdown period. SETTING: Selected urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. PARTI...
Ashok K. Mishra, Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Samarendu Mohanty
Abstract This study examines the effects of off‐farm income on food expenditures of rural Bangladeshi households. Our analysis yields unbiased estimates of the unconditional impact of off‐farm income on food expenditures and reveals the heterogeneous effects that occur across the distribution of tot...
Abul Doulah, Tonmoy Ghosh, Delwar Hossain, Masudul H Imtiaz et al.
Use of food image capture and/or wearable sensors for dietary assessment has grown in popularity. "Active" methods rely on the user to take an image of each eating episode. "Passive" methods use wearable cameras that continuously capture images. Most of "passively" captured images are not related to...
Jennifer Coates, Parke Wilde, Patrick Webb, Beatrice Lorge Rogers et al.
This paper compares a qualitative and a quantitative (Rasch) method of item assessment for developing the content of a food insecurity scale for Bangladesh. Data are derived from the Bangladesh Food Insecurity Measurement and Validation Study, in which researchers collected 2 rounds of ethnographic ...
S Becker, Black Re, KH Brown
Quantitative studies of morbidity, food intake, and somatic growth were done prospectively during 14 mo for 70 children aged 5-18 mo in two Bangladeshi villages. When random-effect regression models were used, monthly changes in weight were inversely related to proportions of days in the month with ...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Samarendu Mohanty, Hoa Thi Hoang, Roderick M. Rejesus
Sophie Goudet, Zivai Murira, Harriet Torlesse, Jennifer Hatchard et al.
The nutritional status of women before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after delivery has far reaching consequences for maternal health and child survival, growth, and development. In South Asia, the high prevalence of short stature, thinness, and anaemia among women of reproductive age underlie th...
Sufia Islam, Rizwanul Islam, Fouzia Mannan, Sabera Rahman et al.
Bangladesh is one of the worst hit countries in South Asia for COVID-19 outbreak. The objective of this article is to analyse healthcare, social and economic challenges faced by the country. Quantitative data and qualitative information from different sources have been used. Our analysis indicates t...
Mohan J. Dutta, Raihan Jamil
Increasingly, health scholars have been paying attention to the health experiences of immigrant communities, particularly in the backdrop of the increasing global flows of goods, services, and people across borders. In spite of the increasing public health emphasis on health outcomes of immigrants w...