Erin E. Brannon, Christopher C. Cushing
OBJECTIVE: Systematically review and meta-analyze the pediatric literature on behavior-change techniques (BCT) as defined by Abraham & Michie (Health Psychology, 27, 379-387, 2008), and describe whether the most effective BCTs are incorporated in physical activity (PA) and dietary mobile apps. METHO...
Tahmina Begum, Shaan Muberra Khan, Bridgit Adamou, Jannatul Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Accurate and high-quality data are important for improving program effectiveness and informing policy. In 2009 Bangladesh's health management information system (HMIS) adopted the District Health Information Software, Version 2 (DHIS2) to capture real-time health service utilization data...
Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick S. Ward, Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal, Mary Killilea
A major impediment to understanding human-environment interactions is that data on social systems are not collected in a way that is easily comparable to natural systems data. While many environmental variables are collected with high frequency, gridded in time and space, social data is typically co...
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Louis Niessen, Uta Ferrari, Liaquat Ali et al.
Mobile phone technologies have emerged as an essential tool for strengthening health systems and improving disease outcomes in many countries (1). In recent years, the government of Bangladesh and the World Health Organization have adopted information technologies for health in their strategic plans...
David Vassallo, Farzana Hoque, Mike Roberts, Victor Patterson et al.
In July 1999, the Swinfen Charitable Trust in the UK established a telemedicine link in Bangladesh, between the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Dhaka and medical consultants abroad. This low-cost telemedicine system used a digital camera to capture still images, which were th...
Md. Rakibul Hoque, Md. Fahami Ahsan Mazmum, Yukun Bao
e-Health has enormous potential to ensure healthcare quality, accessibility, and affordability in developing countries. The application of information and communication technology to healthcare, especially e-Health, is rapidly advancing in Bangladesh. Both the public and private sectors have contrib...
Sana Khan, Zahraa Shahid, Karin Hedström, Annika Andersson
Abstract Health is seen as a major key for development and many developing country governments invest in ICT‐based Health Information Systems (HIS). The purpose of this paper is to explore physicians’ hopes and fears for implementing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in Bangladeshi hospitals. D...
Nazmul Hossain, Fumihiko Yokota, Nazneen Sultana, Ashir Ahmed
Background: Existing studies regarding e-health are mostly focused on information technology design and implementation, system architecture and infrastructure, and its importance in public health with ancillaries and barriers to mass adoption. However, not enough studies have been conducted to asses...
Clare Oliver‐Williams, Elizabeth F. Brown, Sara Devereux, Cassandra Fairhead et al.
BACKGROUND: The benefits of vaccination have been comprehensively proven; however, disparities in coverage persist because of poor health system management, limited resources, and parental knowledge and attitudes. Evidence suggests that health interventions that engage local parties in communication...
Md. Abdul Kaium, Yukun Bao, Mohammad Zahedul Alam, Md. Rakibul Hoque
Purpose This study aims to understand the factors affecting the continuance usage intention (CUI) of mHealth among the rural elderly. Design/methodology/approach An integrated model was proposed with the constructs derived from multiple models such as the unified theory of acceptance and use of tech...
Saifur Rahman Chowdhury, Tachlima Chowdhury Sunna, Shakil Ahmed
The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has been a global concern since early 2020, where the number of COVID-19 cases is also on a rapid surge in Bangladesh with the report of a total of 276,549 cases after the detection of the first three cases in this country on 8 March 2020. Th...
Ghose Bishwajit
BACKGROUND: Research in developed countries has demonstrated an association of varying degrees between watching TV and the risk of being overweight and obese. However, there is no evidence of such an association in the context of the South Asian population. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether watching...
Farzana Yasmin, Bilkis Banu, Supratman Zakir, Rainer Sauerborn et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases have emerged as a serious threat for health, as well as for global development. They endenger considerably increased health care costs and diminish the productivity of the adult population group and, therefore, create a burden on health, as well as on the global economy....
Jahir Uddin Palas, Golam Sorwar, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Achchuthan Sivabalan
BACKGROUND: Despite the high usage of mobile phones in daily life in developing countries like Bangladesh, the adoption and usage of mHealth services have been significantly low among the elderly population. When searching previous studies, the researchers have found that no studies have empirically...
Milon Biswas, Marzia Hoque Tania, M. Shamim Kaiser, Russell Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Over the last decade, mobile health applications (mHealth App) have evolved exponentially to assess and support our health and well-being. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mHealth app rating tool, called ACCU3RATE, which takes multidimensional measur...