Véronique Filippi, Carine Ronsmans, Oona M. R. Campbell, Wendy Graham et al.
In this paper, we take a broad perspective on maternal health and place it in its wider context. We draw attention to the economic and social vulnerability of pregnant women, and stress the importance of concomitant broader strategies, including poverty reduction and women's empowerment. We also con...
Marge Koblinsky, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Carine Ronsmans
Not available DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jhpn.v30i2.11294 J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2012 Jun;30(2):124-130
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Roslin Botlero, Marge Koblinsky, Sajal Saha et al.
Background Research on the effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality is scarce. We aimed to assess the contribution of intervention strategies, such as skilled attendance at birth, to the recorded reduction in maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh. We examined and compared trends i...
Caryn Bern, Joseph E. Sniezek, Golam M. Mathbor, Maqsood Siddiqi et al.
Cyclones continue to pose a dangerous threat to the coastal populations of Bangladesh, despite improvements in disaster control procedures. After 138,000 persons died in the April 1991 cyclone, we carried out a rapid epidemiological assessment to determine factors associated with cyclone-related mor...
Carine Ronsmans, Anne Marie Vanneste, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty, Jeroen van Ginneken
Background A study in Matlab, Bangladesh, has provided evidence favouring a community-based maternity-care delivery system. 3 years of this programme coincided with a significant reduction in direct obstetric mortality compared with the 3 years before the programme. We have examined whether the effe...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta, Anisuddin Ahmed et al.
Background The effect of a parent's death on the survival of the children has been assessed in only a few studies. We therefore investigated the effect of the death of the mother or father on the survival of the child up to age 10 years in rural Bangladesh. Methods We used data from population surve...
Michael L. Bennish, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Mohammad Anowar Hossain, Jacques Myaux et al.
The susceptibility to ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ) was determined for 15,824 isolates of Shigella obtained from patients attending a treatment center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1983 through 1990 and for 520 isolates obtained during community surveys from 1988 through 1990. ...
T. Kusiako, Carine Ronsmans, Lieve Van der Paal
Very few population-based studies of perinatal mortality in developing countries have examined the role of intrapartum risk factors. In the present study, the proportion of perinatal deaths that are attributable to complications during childbirth in Matlab, Bangladesh, was assessed using community-b...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Carine Ronsmans, Japhet Killewo, Iqbal Anwar et al.
Background Few studies have assessed whether the poorest people in developing countries benefit from giving birth at home rather than in a facility. We analysed whether socioeconomic status results in differences in the use of professional midwives at home and in a basic obstetric facility in a rura...
Carine Ronsmans
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsies have been widely used to determine the levels and causes of maternal death but few studies have assessed the reliability of various methods. METHODS: We compared the levels and causes of maternal mortality in three data sources from Matlab, Bangladesh: (1) maternal death...
Simon M. Collin, Iqbal Anwar, Carine Ronsmans
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is committed to the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG-5) target of reducing its maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. Since the early 1990s, Bangladesh has followed a strategy of improving access to facilities equipped and staffed to provide em...
Carine Ronsmans, MichaelL. Bennish, Thomas F. Wierzba
To develop guidelines for community health workers in the treatment of patients with diarrhoea, diarrhoea prevalence was actively surveyed for a year in a remote rural community of 915,000 persons, and the enteric pathogens and clinical features associated with diarrhoeal illness were determined in ...
Carine Ronsmans, David J. Fisher, Clive Osmond, Barrie Margetts et al.
BACKGROUND: Multiple micronutrient deficiencies are common among women in low-income countries and may adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis of the effects on stillbirths and on early and late neonatal mortality of supplementation during pregnancy with multiple m...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Marge Koblinsky, Anisuddin Ahmed
OBJECTIVE: To examine the nature of the relationship between the use of skilled attendance around the time of delivery and maternal and perinatal mortality. METHODS: We analysed health and demographic surveillance system data collected between 1987 and 2005 by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal...
Lauren S. Blum, Tamanna Sharmin, Carine Ronsmans
In an effort to make skilled attendance at birth more accessible, some countries in Asia have begun major initiatives to promote the option of home delivery with a midwife. Yet there is little empirical evidence from the region to suggest that home-based care is as safe or effective as care in medic...