Masuma Akter Khanam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Chengxuan Qiu et al.
Data on multimorbidity among the elderly people in Bangladesh are lacking. This paper reports the prevalence and distribution patterns of multimorbidity among the elderly people in rural Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was conducted among persons aged ≥60 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. Informat...
Thomas A. Gaziano, Shafika Abrahams‐Gessel, Catalina A. Denman, Carlos Mendoza Montano et al.
BackgroundCardiovascular disease contributes substantially to the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in low-income and middle-income countries, which also often have substantial health personnel shortages. In this observational study we investigated whether community health workers could do commu...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Akhter Hossain, Md. Raihan Chowdhury
In Bangladesh, there is a lack of knowledge about the large body of informal sector practitioners, who are the major providers of health care to the poor, especially in rural areas, knowledge which is essential for designing a need-based, pro-poor health system. This paper addresses this gap by pres...
Michael Koenig, Mian Bazle Hossain, Maxine Whittaker
Efforts to develop quantitative indicators of quality of care for family planning services, and to evaluate its role in contraceptive behavior, remain at an early stage. The present study, based upon an analysis of prospective data from a sample of 7,800 reproductive-aged rural Bangladeshi women, pr...
Iqbal Anwar
OBJECTIVE: To explore use-inequity in maternal health-care services in home-based skilled-birth-attendant (SBA) programme areas in Bangladesh. METHODS: Data from a community survey, conducted from February to May 2006, were analysed to examine inequities in use of SBAs, caesarean sections for delive...
Robert E. Black, Carl E. Taylor, Shobha Arole, Abhay Bang et al.
BACKGROUND: The contributions that community-based primary health care (CBPHC) and engaging with communities as valued partners can make to the improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) is not widely appreciated. This unfortunate reality is one of the reasons why so few priority coun...
Debra Singh, Joel Negin, Michael Otim, Christopher Garimoi Orach et al.
INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) have been proposed as a means for bridging gaps in healthcare delivery in rural communities. Recent CHW programmes have been shown to improve child and neonatal health outcomes, and it is increasingly being suggested that paid CHWs become an integral par...
Hilary Standing, Rajiv Chowdhury
This paper is concerned with how poor populations can obtain access to trusted, competent knowledge and services in increasingly pluralistic health systems where unregulated markets for health knowledge and services dominate. The term "unregulated" here derives from the literature on the development...
Colin McCord, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
Mortality has improved dramatically in most of South Asia as a consequence of modest economic improvement, better nutrition and a combination of health education, immunization, family planning and home treatment of certain common diseases, especially diarrhea and respiratory infections. However, dea...
Sanni Yaya, Ghose Bishwajit, Vaibhav Shah
BACKGROUND: Malawi is among the 5 sub-Saharan African countries presenting with very high maternal mortality rates, which remain a challenge. This study aims to examine the impact of wealth inequality and area of residence (urban vs rural) and education on selected indicators of maternal healthcare ...
Ghose Bishwajit, Feng Da, Shangfeng Tang, Sanni Yaya et al.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the association between women's decision-making power and utilisation of maternal healthcare services (MHS) among Bangladeshi women. SETTINGS: This is a nationally representative survey that encompassed Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Chittagong, Khulna, ...
Training Niport, Bangladesh, Mitra, Associates et al.
Syed Masud Ahmed, Göran Tomson, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir
OBJECTIVE: To study the health-seeking behaviour of elderly members (aged > 60 years) of households in rural Bangladesh, to ascertain how their behaviour differs from that of younger people (aged 20-59 years) living in the same household and to explore the determinants of health-seeking behaviour. M...
Gerald Bloom, Hilary Standing, Henry C. Lucas, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion...
Georgi Abraham, Santosh Varughese, Thiagarajan Thandavan, Arpana Iyengar et al.
In many developing countries in the South Asian region, screening for chronic diseases in the community has shown a widely varying prevalence. However, certain geographical regions have shown a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown etiology. This predominantly affects the young ...