Cara Holland, Anu Rammohan
Women’s empowerment and child stunting remain key development challenges in Bangladesh. The objective of this study is to analyse the influence of female empowerment in agriculture, on child food security. This study uses household survey data from two waves of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Su...
John Briscoe
A common approach to assessing the relative importance of different transmission routes is to eliminate transmission through one route and assume that the ratio "number of cases eliminated:number of residual cases" measures the relative importance of the eliminated route vis-à-vis the residual trans...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Mohammed Mainuddin, Tetsushi Sonobe
At present nearly half of the world's population is under some form of government restriction to curb the spread of COVID-19, an extremely contagious disease. In Bangladesh, in the wake of five deaths and 48 infections from COVID-19, between March 24 and May 30, 2020, the government imposed a nation...
John M. Dixon, Jeevika Weerahewa, Jon Hellin, Maria Fay Rola‐Rubzen et al.
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting health and economies across the world, although the nature of direct and indirect effects on Asian agrifood systems and food security has not yet been well understood. Objectives: This paper assesses the initial responses of major farming and food sy...
Solveig A. Cunningham, Nida Shaikh, Ariel Nhacolo, Pratima L. Raghunathan et al.
Health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) provide a foundation for characterizing and defining priorities and strategies for improving population health. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project aims to inform policy to prevent child deaths through generating...
Erin Lentz
A rich body of research confirms a strong association between a mother’s exposure to domestic violence and poor nutritional outcomes of her children. However, there is less empirical research on how domestic violence impacts nutrition and food security. Two pathways described in the literature are (...
AM Shamsir Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, Roy Sk, Nurul Alam et al.
This study aimed to assess the determinants of under nutrition among under-two year old children of rural Bangladesh. The data of the National Nutrition Program baseline survey conducted in 2004 was analyzed, which included 8,885 under-two children and their mothers. Among the children studied, 41%,...
Firoz Ahmed, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Tabassum Rahman et al.
COVID-19 has threatened food security of the poor due to the lockdown of markets amidst poor institutions and lack of social safety nets in the developing world. To provide rapid evidence on the determinants and dynamics of food insecurity and to understand the coping strategies adopted by rural hou...
Igor Rudan, Jennifer Gibson, Lydia Kapiriri, Mary Ann Lansang et al.
This article reviews theoretical and practical approaches for setting priorities in global child health research investments. It also provides an overview of previous attempts to develop appropriate tools and methodologies to define priorities in health research investments. A brief review of the mo...
Edward A. Frongillo, Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
This research aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the experience of household food insecurity in rural Bangladesh and to develop a direct measure of it from this understanding. Using naturalistic, emergent inquiry, in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 rural women living in diverse situatio...
B A Hoque, Dilip Mahalanabis, Munirul Alam, M. Sirajul Islam
Inadequate handwashing after defecation and anal cleaning practices in the Indian subcontinent is an important source of faeco-oral transmission of enteric diseases. To better understand the process as traditionally practised, 90 women in semi-rural Bangladesh were observed washing hands after defec...
Jennifer Coates, Beatrice Lorge Rogers, Alexander Blau, Jacqueline M Lauer et al.
Many researchers use data from Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES) to estimate individual food and nutrient intake when individual dietary data are not available. They assume that food is allocated within households according to members’ proportional energy requirements relative to ...
Ayşe Ercümen, Amy J. Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, Andrew Mertens et al.
Sanitation improvements have had limited effectiveness in reducing the spread of fecal pathogens into the environment. We conducted environmental measurements within a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that implemented individual and combined water treatment, sanitation, handwashing (WSH) an...
Tanvir Huda, Alison Hayes, Shams El Arifeen, Michael J. Dibley
Socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition remain one of the main challenges in Bangladesh. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for such inequalities across different population groups. However, no study has examined the relative contribution of different social determin...
Aditi Krishna, Iván Mejía‐Guevara, Mark McGovern, Víctor M. Aguayo et al.
We analysed socio-economic inequalities in stunting in South Asia and investigated disparities associated with factors at the individual, caregiver, and household levels (poor dietary diversity, low maternal education, and household poverty). We used time-series analysis of data from 55,459 children...
Frances A. Bird, Aliza Pradhan, R.V. Bhavani, Alan D. Dangour
Research on the potential impact of interventions in agriculture on nutrition outcomes is of particular relevance in South Asia where agriculture-related activities are a major source of livelihoods for large sections of society and where the population suffers from one of the highest global burdens...
Md. Toufik Hossen, Jannatul Ferdaus, Md. Mohibul Hasan, Nazia Nawshad Lina et al.
Most people now have their meals outside their homes and are vulnerable to illness caused by food. Unsafe food preparation and supply by vendors have made food safety a concern for public health. Jashore is a densely populated city, this study was designed to evaluate food safety knowledge, attitude...
Derek Headey, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sunny S. Kim, Rahul Rawat et al.
It has recently been hypothesized that exposure to livestock constitutes a significant risk factor for diarrhea and environmental enteric disorder in young children, which may significantly contribute to undernutrition. To date, though, very little research has documented the extent of exposure to a...
Sheela Sinharoy, Jillian Waid, Regine Haardörfer, Amanda S. Wendt et al.
Abstract The relationship between women's empowerment and women's nutrition is understudied. We aimed to elucidate this relationship by quantifying possible pathways between empowerment and dietary diversity among women in rural Bangladesh. In 2015, we conducted a cross‐sectional survey of 2,599 mar...
Ghose Bishwajit, Shangfeng Tang, Sanni Yaya, Zhanchun Feng
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity and hidden hunger (micronutrient deficiency) affect about two billion people globally. Household food insecurity (HFI) has been shown to be associated with one or multiple micronutrient (MMN) deficiencies among women and children. Chronic food insecurity leads to various ...