Tahera Akter, Fatema Tuz Jhohura, Fahmida Akter, Tridib Roy Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Public health is at risk due to chemical contaminants in drinking water which may have immediate health consequences. Drinking water sources are susceptible to pollutants depending on geological conditions and agricultural, industrial, and other man-made activities. Ensuring the safety o...
H. M. Imran, Md Anwar Hossain, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, Ataur Rahman et al.
Abstract Urbanization leads to the construction of various urban infrastructures in the city area for residency, transportation, industry, and other purposes, which causes major land use change. Consequently, it substantially affects Land Surface Temperature (LST) by unbalancing the surface energy b...
Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Akramul Md. Islam, A. N. Maksuda et al.
The present study aims to determine the quality of life (QOL) and general mental health of leprosy patients compared with the general population, and evaluate contributing factors such as socio-economic characteristics and perceived stigma. A total of 189 patients (160 outpatients, 29 inpatients) an...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Sadia Chowdhury, Md. Nazrul Islam, Akramul Islam et al.
Background Tuberculosis remains a major public-health problem in Bangladesh, despite national efforts to improve case identification and treatment compliance. In 1984, BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), a national, non-governmental organisation, began an experimental tubercu...
Hsiao‐Han Chang, Amy Wesolowski, Ipsita Sinha, Christopher G. Jacob et al.
For countries aiming for malaria elimination, travel of infected individuals between endemic areas undermines local interventions. Quantifying parasite importation has therefore become a priority for national control programs. We analyzed epidemiological surveillance data, travel surveys, parasite g...
Shamim Ahmed, Swapan Kumar Sarker, Daniel A. Friess, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
) to the salinity and functional variable relationships. In this study, we found that rises in salinity significantly impede forest growth and produce less productive ecosystems dominated by dwarf species while reducing stand structural properties (i.e., tree height, basal area, dominant tree height...
Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, James Newell, Jalal Ahmed, M. K. A. Hyder et al.
This study analyzes the basic concepts and key issues of existing collaboration between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in health care, using as an example the implementation of the DOTS (formerly an abbreviation for directly observed treatment, short course) strategy for tuberc...
Takashi Izutsu, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Akramul Md. Islam, Seika Kato et al.
This study aims to clarify the quality of life (QOL), mental health, and nutritional status of adolescents in Dhaka city, Bangladesh by comparing non-slum areas and slums, and to find the factors associated with their mental health problems. A sample of 187 boys and 137 girls from non-slum areas, an...
Mahfuza Rifat, Abul Hasnat Milton, John Hall, Christopher Oldmeadow et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk factors for developing multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Bangladesh. METHODS: This case-control study was set in central, district and sub-district level hospitals of rural and urban Bangladesh. Included were 250 multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients a...
Takashi Izutsu, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Md. Akramul Islam, Yusuke Matsuo et al.
The objectives of this study were to develop a Bangla version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF), and assess its reliability and validity on an adolescent population in Bangladesh. In total, 187 boys (mean age 14.6 years +/- SD 2.1) and 137 girls (15.2 +/- S...
Md. Akramul Islam, Susumu Wakai, Nobukatsu Ishikawa, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) programme run by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which uses community health workers (CHWs), with that of the government TB programme which does not use CHWs. METHODS: TB control statistics and cost data for Jul...
Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Seika Kato, Md. Akramul Islam et al.
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Bangla version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) in an adult population in Bangladesh. Approximately 200 adults in the Dhaka district were interviewed using a questionnaire con...
Narottam Das, Akramul Haque, Hasneen Zaman, S. Morsalin et al.
Coordinated power demand management at residential or domestic levels allows energy participants to efficiently manage load profiles, increase energy efficiency and reduce operational cost. In this paper, a hierarchical coordination framework to optimally manage domestic load using photovoltaic (PV)...
Heidi Reid, Ubydul Haque, Archie Clements, Andrew J. Tatem et al.
Background malaria-control programs are increasingly dependent on accurate risk maps to effectively guide the allocation of interventions and resources. Advances in model-based geostatistics and geographical information systems (GIS) have enabled researchers to better understand factors affecting ma...
Sukanta Paul, Rahima Akter, Afzal Aftab, Antora Mahmud Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme adopted a number of strategies to facilitate TB diagnosis and treatment. 'Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization' (ACSM) was one of the key strategies implemented by BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, a non-gover...