Jorge Mendoza Aldana, Helga Piechulek, Ahmed Al‐Sabir
OBJECTIVE: To assess user expectations and degree of client satisfaction and quality of health care provided in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 1913 persons chosen by systematic random sampling were successfully interviewed immediately after having received care in government health facilities...
Michael Koenig, Tulshi D. Saha, Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Shams El Arifeen et al.
CONTEXT: Although the reduction of maternal mortality levels is a key Millennium Development Goal, community-based evidence on obstetric complications and maternal care-seeking behavior remains limited in low-resource countries. METHODS: This study presents an overview of key findings from the 2001 ...
Alayne M. Adams, Atonu Rabbani, Shamim Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.
By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, significant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health approach, key features of the country's development experience can be identified th...
Mitra Sn, Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Tulshi D. Saha, Sampath Kumar
With the collaboration of the National Institute of Population Research and Training Mitra and Associates and ORC Macro (USA) the 1999-2000 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey was implemented. The survey provides updated estimates of the basic national demographic and health indicators as well as a...
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Goutom Banik, Shema Mhajabin, Tazeen Tahsina et al.
INTRODUCTION: There is a set of globally accepted and nationally adapted signal functions for categorising health facilities for maternal services. Newborn resuscitation is the only newborn intervention which is included in the WHO recommended list of emergency obstetric care signal functions. This ...
Richa Kumari
Peter Kim Streatfield, Shams El Arifeen, Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Kanta Jamil
Alan Gray, Jamil Chowdhury, Bruce Caldwell, Ahmed Al‐Sabir
Some coitus-dependent methods of family planning, such as withdrawal, periodic abstinence, and the condom, require male involvement for their use, and using these methods in combination has proved to be sensible. An investigation of why male and female respondents in a survey conducted in Bangladesh...
Tanha Mahjabeen, Imran Khan, R Amin, A Chowdhury et al.
Achieving appropriate fertility rate is important for any country. In spite of having a higher fertility rate than desired Bangladesh has been able to reduce it in a remarkable extent in the recent years. This decline in fertility has created much interest among researchers, policy makers and academ...
Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, M.E. Khan, Ahmed Al‐Sabir et al.
Over the last 30 years, family planning programs in Bangladesh have primarily focused on women. While government policy has been effective in influencing women to accept contraceptive methods, the role of men in family planning has been completely ignored. The aim of this study was to integrate male...
Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Md Ashraful Alam, S. M. I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob et al.
Over the last 30 years, Bangladesh’s national family planning (FP) program has mainly concentrated its promotional efforts on women’s adoption of FP. While the government policy has been effective in influencing women to accept contraceptive methods, men’s role in FP has been completely neglected. S...
Shema Mhajabin, Goutom Banik, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Md. Jahurul Islam et al.
Background: This study aimed to identify a set of newborn signal functions (NSFs) that can categorize health facilities and assist policymakers and health managers in appropriately planning and adequately monitoring the progress and performance of health facilities delivering newborn health care in ...
Alex Gray, Chowdhury Jh, Bruce Caldwell, Ahmed Al‐Sabir
A study entitled “Strengthening Population Policy and Research Capacity in Bangladesh” was carried out through the collaborative effort of the Population Council Bangladesh; the National Institute of Population Research and Training; the Maternal and Child Health-Family Planning Extension Project; a...
Shila Rani Das, Chinmay Biswas, Maruf Raza, M Koenig et al.
Objective: To find out the health care seeking practice of pregnant women attending in the OPD of Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex. Method and materials : Cross sectional study was carried out in a health complex of Bangladesh from 1 st December 2016 to 15 th December 2016 with a sample size of 110. S...
G Angeles, Ahmed Al‐Sabir, Peter Lance, Bates Buckner et al.
Nearly all of the global population growth in the next three decades will occur in urban areas, primarily as a massive migration occurs from the rural areas of middle and lower-income societies to their cities. Many, if not most of these migrants, who are generally possessed of low human and financi...