Md. Jamal Uddin, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, M. Sanni Ali, Anthonius de Boer et al.
Background Unmeasured confounding is one of the principal problems in pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Several methods have been proposed to detect or control for unmeasured confounding either at the study design phase or the data analysis phase. Aim of the Review To provide an overview of commonly us...
David Osrin, Kishwar Azad, Armida Fernandez, Dharma Manandhar et al.
Public health interventions usually operate at the level of groups rather than individuals, and cluster randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are one means of evaluating their effectiveness. Using examples from six such trials in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Nepal, we discuss our experience of the et...
Syed Abdul Hamid, Syed M. Ahsan, Afroza Begum
Background Analysing disease-specific impoverishment impact of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care is crucial for priority setting in any informed policy discussion. Lack of evidence, particularly in the Bangladesh context, motivates our paper. Objective To examine disease-specific impoveri...
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Zia Ul Islam et al.
OBJECTIVES: As in many low-income and middle-income countries, out-of-pocket (OOP) payments by patients or their families are a key healthcare financing mechanism in Bangladesh that leads to economic burdens for households. The objective of this study was to identify whether and to what extent socio...
Sarah Hawkes, Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh, Nidhee Jadeja, Michelle Jiménez et al.
Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experien...
Blossom C. M. Stephan, Louie Cochrane, Aysegul Humeyra Kafadar, Jacob Brain et al.
BACKGROUND: More than 57 million people have dementia worldwide. Evidence indicates a change in dementia prevalence and incidence in high-income countries, which is likely to be due to improved life-course population health. Identifying key modifiable risk factors for dementia is essential for infor...
Lombe Kasonde, David Tordrup, Aliya Naheed, Wu Zeng et al.
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown limited availability of medicines in health facilities in Bangladesh. While medicines are dispensed for free in public facilities, they are paid out-of-pocket in private pharmacies. Availability, price and affordability are key concerns for access to medicines...
M. Masudur Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, Krish Ragunath, Gareth Jenkins et al.
Health research is essential for improving global health, health equity, and economic development. There are vast differences in the disease burden, research budget allocation, and scientific publications between the developed and the low-middle-income countries, which are the homes of 85% of the wo...
Jade Benjamin‐Chung, Jaynal Abedin, David Berger, Ashley K. Clark et al.
Background: Many interventions delivered to improve health may benefit not only direct recipients but also people in close physical or social proximity. Our objective was to review all published literature about the spillover effects of interventions on health outcomes in low-middle income countries...
Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Seika Kato, Md. Akramul Islam et al.
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Bangla version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) in an adult population in Bangladesh. Approximately 200 adults in the Dhaka district were interviewed using a questionnaire con...
Farzana Saleh, Ferdous Ara, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Md Abdul Hafez
BACKGROUND: The management of diabetes requires a fundamental change in the lifestyle of patients, and one of the important outcome criteria is the quality of life. We assessed the health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and examined the factors associated with it in type 2 diabetes. METHODS: An ana...
Amir Shroufi, Rajiv Chowdhury, Raghupathy Anchala, Sarah Stevens et al.
BACKGROUND: While there is good evidence to show that behavioural and lifestyle interventions can reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in affluent settings, less evidence exists in lower income settings.This study systematically assesses the evidence on cost-effectiveness for preventive cardio...
Lydia Kapiriri, Mark Tomlinson, Mickey Chopra, Shams El Arifeen et al.
AIM: To identify main groups of stakeholders in the process of health research priority setting and propose strategies for addressing their systems of values. METHODS: In three separate exercises that took place between March and June 2006 we interviewed three different groups of stakeholders: 1) me...
Keith E. Mandel, Uma R. Kotagal
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether aligning design characteristics of a pay-for-performance program with objectives of an asthma improvement collaborative builds improvement capability and accelerates improvement. DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis of the impact of pay for performance on results ...
Jill Murphy, Jennifer Hatfield, Kaosar Afsana, Vic Neufeld
Global health research partnerships have many benefits, including the development of research capacity and improving the production and use of evidence to improve global health equity. These partnerships also include many challenges, with power and resource differences often leading to inequitable a...