Md. Rakibul Hoque, Golam Sorwar
Background mHealth (mobile health) services are becoming an increasingly important form of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled delivery for healthcare, especially in low-resource environments such as developing countries like Bangladesh. Despite widespread adoption of mobile phone...
Mohammad Zahedul Alam, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Wang Hu, Zapan Barua
mHealth under the umbrella of eHealth has become an essential tool for providing quality, accessible and equal health care services at an affordable cost. Despite the potential benefits of mHealth, its adoption remains a big challenge in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This study aims to ex...
Md. Akram Hossain, Rui Quaresma, Habibur Rahman
Electronic Health Record (EHR) can promote awareness or knowledge about healthcare among patients and healthcare professionals to improve collaboration between different governmental bodies, and enhance healthcare quality. The aim of the study is to identify the critical farctors affecting the physi...
Md. Rakibul Hoque, Yukun Bao, Golam Sorwar
PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to investigate factors that influence the adoption and use of e-Health applications in Bangladesh from citizens' (patients') perspectives by extending the technology acceptance model (TAM) to include privacy and trust. METHODS: A structured questionnaire survey was ...
Mohammad Ashfak Habib, Mas Sahidayana Mohktar, Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman, Kheng Seang Lim et al.
This paper presents a state-of-the-art survey of smartphone (SP)-based solutions for fall detection and prevention. Falls are considered as major health hazards for both the elderly and people with neurodegenerative diseases. To mitigate the adverse consequences of falling, a great deal of research ...
Weihua Xie, Pinyuan Dai, Yu Qin, Ming Wu et al.
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is now a global health problem. Poor blood glucose control during pregnancy may lead to maternal and neonatal/foetal complications. Recently, the development of information and communication technology has resulted in new technical support for the clin...
Md. Rakibul Hoque
BACKGROUND: mHealth has become a valuable tool for providing health care services in developing countries. Despite the potential benefits of mHealth, its adoption remains a very challenge in developing countries like Bangladesh. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that affect the ado...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique et al.
In Bangladesh, full vaccination rates among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets are low. We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study of a 12-month mobile phone intervention to improve vaccination among 0–11 months old children in rural hard-to-reach and urban street d...
G. M. Azmal Ali Quaosar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Yukun Bao
BACKGROUND: m-Health as an important part of e-health has recently become one of the most influential initiative in healthcare sector all over the world. In developing countries healthcare service providers started to provide m-health services from the last few years. Despite the widespread acceptan...
Amirul Islam, Rahul Chakrabarti, Mohamed Dirani, Md Tauhidul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: To assess the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) amongst the general community regarding type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: Data was collected using cluster random sampling from 3104 adults residing in a rural district in Bangladesh. Participants underwent a...
Edward Fottrell, Naveed Ahmed, Joanna Morrison, Abdul Kuddus et al.
BACKGROUND: Strategies are needed to prevent and control type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia, which together affect roughly a third of adults in Bangladesh. We aimed to assess the effects of mHealth and community mobilisation on the prevalence of intermediate hyperglycaemia and diabetes ...
Tanvir Ahmed, Henry C. Lucas, Azfar Sadun Khan, Rubana Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The health system of Bangladesh is haunted by challenges of accessibility and affordability. Despite impressive gains in many health indicators, recent evidence has raised concerns regarding the utilization, quality and equity of healthcare. In the context of new and unfamiliar public he...
Fatema Khatun, Anita Heywood, Pradeep Ray, SMA Hanifi et al.
Introduction Evidence in favor of mHealth for healthcare delivery in settings where trained health workforce is limited or unavailable is accumulating. With rapid growth in access to mobile phones and an acute shortage of health workforce in Bangladesh, mHealth initiatives are increasing with more t...
Mark Yu Zheng Wong, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, Simon Nusinovici, Charumathi Sabanayagam et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to urgent calls for the adoption of telehealth solutions. However, public interest and demand for telehealth during the pandemic remain unknown. OBJECTIVE: We used an infodemiological approach to estimate the worldwide demand for telehealth services during C...
Joseph Akuze, Hannah Blencowe, Peter Waiswa, Angela Baschieri et al.
BACKGROUND: An estimated 5·1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Household surveys, most notably the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), run in more than 90 countries and are the main data source from the highest burden regions, but data-quality concerns remain. We aimed to comp...