Michael Eddleston, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury
Despite being a major clinical and public health problem across the developing world, responsible for at least 5 million deaths over the last three decades, the clinical care of patients with organophosphorus (OP) insecticide poisoning has little improved over the last six decades. We are still usin...
Bimal Kanti Paul
Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath ...
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...
Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews et al.
South Asia faces one of the largest gender gaps online globally, and online safety is one of the main barriers to gender-equitable Internet access [GSMA, 2015]. To better understand the gendered risks and coping practices online in South Asia, we present a qualitative study of the online abuse exper...
Kee-Tai Goh, Jeffery Cutter, B. H. Heng, Stefan Ma et al.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was imported into Singapore in late February 2003 by a local resident who returned from a holiday in Hong Kong and started an outbreak in the hospital where she was admitted on 1 March 2003. The disease subsequently spread to 4 other healthcare institutions a...
Ayanthi Karunarathne, David Gunnell, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston
Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous pesticides such as parathion and endrin into poor rural communities that were totally unequipped to store or use them safely. Pesticid...
Nazmul Chaudhury
Unannounced visits were made to health \n clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of \n medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged \n over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee \n rate was 35 percent. The absentee rate for physicians was 4...
Jordan Peck, James C. Benneyan, Deborah Nightingale, Stephan A. Gaehde
OBJECTIVES: The objectives were to evaluate three models that use information gathered during triage to predict, in real time, the number of emergency department (ED) patients who subsequently will be admitted to a hospital inpatient unit (IU) and to introduce a new methodology for implementing thes...
Charles Ameh, Sia E. Msuya, Jan Hofman, Joanna Raven et al.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring women have access to good quality Emergency Obstetric Care (EOC) is a key strategy to reducing maternal and newborn deaths. Minimum coverage rates are expected to be 1 Comprehensive (CEOC) and 4 Basic EOC (BEOC) facilities per 500,000 population. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A cross-se...
Louise T. Day, Harriet Ruysen, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Georgia R. Gore‐Langton et al.
BACKGROUND: - Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine tracking of coverage and quality of facility-based care for use at district, national and global levels. METHODS: EN-BIRTH is an observational study in...
Len Bowers, G. BRENNAN, Chris Flood, M. LIPANG et al.
Acute psychiatric wards experience high levels of conflict behaviours (violence, absconding, self-harm, rule breaking and medication refusal) by patients. These events cause stress and injury to staff and patients. Their management through containment methods (e.g. sedation, restraint, seclusion) is...
Mark D. Griffiths, Mohammed A. Mamun
reasons for suicide pacts among couples is among young couples whose parents refuse to let the couple get married (Milin & Turgay, 1990; Part et al., 2013; Pridmore & Reddy, 2010). Globally, the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is of concern. While existing health facilities are priorit...
Sarah E Lamb, Julie Bruce, Anower Hossain, Chen Ji et al.
BACKGROUND: Community screening and therapeutic prevention strategies may reduce the incidence of falls in older people. The effects of these measures on the incidence of fractures, the use of health resources, and health-related quality of life are unknown. METHODS: In a pragmatic, three-group, clu...
GBD 2019 Snakebite Envenomation Collaborators, Nicholas L S Roberts, Emily K. Johnson, Scott Zeng et al.
Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, an...
Jay G. Silverman, Michele R. Decker, Nitin Kapur, Jhumka Gupta et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between men's reported violence against wives and their sexual risk behaviours and sexual health. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional analyses of a survey of a nationally representative household-based sample of married men in Bangladesh (n = 3096)...