Ruo Jia, Anish Khadka, Lee-Hyung Kim
This paper presents a spatial clustering method for macro-level traffic crash analysis based on open source point-of-interest (POI) data. Traffic crashes are discrete and non-negative events for short-time evaluation but can be spatially correlated with long-term macro-level estimation. Thus, the me...
Shakil Mohammad Rifaat, Hoong Chor Chin
Abstract To reduce injuries in road crashes, better understanding is needed between the relationship of injury severity and risk factors. This study seeks to identify the contributing factors affecting crash severity with broad considerations of driver characteristics, roadway features, vehicle type...
Aminur Rahman, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Salim Mahmud Chowdhury, M. S. Giashuddin et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the epidemiology of child drowning in order to propose possible interventions for Bangladesh and other similar low-income countries. DESIGN: Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING: Rural and urban communities in Bangladesh. SUBJECTS: About 352,000 children 0-17 years...
Spencer L James, Chris D Castle, Zachary V Dingels, Jack T Fox et al.
BACKGROUND: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for p...
Maureen S. Durkin, W. Wang, Patrick E. Shrout, Sultana S. Zaman et al.
This paper uses five strategies to evaluate the reliability and other measurement qualities of the Ten Questions screen for childhood disability. The screen was administered for 22,125 children, aged 2-9 years, in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Pakistan. The test-retest approach involving small sub-samples...
Upal Barua, Richard Tay
Abstract Unlike in developed countries where buses are a relatively safe mode of transport, there is a significant safety concern in many developing countries like Bangladesh regarding transit buses. Nevertheless, few studies have examined the factors contributing to the number or severity of bus cr...
Vincent Fauveau, T. Blanchet
Information about injuries and violence as causes of death of women is scarce and often incomplete, and particularly so regarding women in the rural areas of South Asia. This report provides detailed specific information collected in Matlab, a sub-district of rural Bangladesh. Of 1139 women (aged 15...
Adnan A. Hyder, Nagesh N. Borse, Lauren S. Blum, Rasheda Khan et al.
Data available for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) indicate that the burden of drowning in children is significant and becoming a leading public health problem. At the same time, interventions for drowning are not well documented in LMICs. The overall purpose of this paper is to make the ca...
Moshtaq Ahmed, Mohammad Fazlur Rahman, Jeroen van Ginneken
BACKGROUND: Although the recent decline in child mortality in Bangladesh is remarkable, death from causes other than infectious diseases and malnutrition remains an important component of child mortality. Death from drowning of children can be expected to be a problem in Bangladesh given the geograp...
Phillipo L Chalya, Joseph B Mabula, Isidor H. Ngayomela, Emmanuel S. Kanumba et al.
Motorcycle injuries constitute a major but neglected emerging public health problem in developing countries and are a common cause of road traffic injuries. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence, injury pattern and treatment outcome of motorcycle injuries among patients presenting to...
Sudipta Sarkar, Richard Tay, John Douglas Hunt
Pedestrian fatalities on national highways in Bangladesh account for about 47% of all pedestrian fatalities; therefore, it is important to identify the risk factors involved. Binary logistic models were calibrated with crash data from 1998 to 2006 maintained by the Accident Research Institute of Ban...
Gene B. Hubbard, Paulette C. Langlinais, Takeshi Shimazu, Carlin V. Okerberg et al.
Pulmonary injury resulting from inhalation of chemical and particulate products of incomplete combustion is one of the principal determinants of mortality following burn injury. In this study, the histopathology of inhalation injury was examined in sheep. Mild, moderate, or severe smoke injury was p...
Ashraf Dewan, Md. Faruk Hossain, Md. Masudur Rahman, Yasuke Yamane et al.
Abstract A database of lightning-related deaths and injuries in Bangladesh was developed from 1990 to mid-2016 from a variety of sources that contains a total of 5468 casualties, composed of 3086 fatalities and 2382 injuries. Spatial, temporal, and demographic aspects of these lightning casualties a...
Selina Daisy, A K Mostaque, T S Bari, Attaullah Khan et al.
This prospective case-control study was conducted on 105 consecutive cases admitted to the burn units of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The same number of controls were selected randomly from the community and matched with respect to age group, sex, and location of residen...
Siran He, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Amar-Singh et al.
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to analyze the epidemiology of childhood unintentional injuries presenting to hospitals in 5 select sites in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan). METHODS: We collected standardized data from children ages 0 to 12 years a...