Stanislav Kolenikov, Gustavo Ángeles
The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare studies. This paper explores the ways discrete data can be incorporated into PCA. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA a...
Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs in other sectors. However, there is a dearth o...
William Sambisa, Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.
This study explores the prevalence and correlates of past-year physical violence against women in slum and nonslum areas of urban Bangladesh. The authors use multivariate logistic regression to analyze data from the 2006 Urban Health Survey, a population-based survey of 9,122 currently married women...
William Sambisa, Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.
Using data from 8,320 husbands'self reports for the 2006 Urban Health Survey, this article examines the prevalence of physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrated by husbands against their wives in Bangladesh and identifies risk markers associated with such violence. Of the men in...
Gustavo Ángeles, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Peter Kim Streatfield, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Bangladesh is undergoing a rapid urbanization process. About one-third of the population of major cities in the country live in slums, which are areas that exhibit pronounced concentrations of factors that negatively affect health and nutrition. People living in slums face greater challenge to impro...
Gustavo Ángeles, Hannah Silverstein, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Mohammad Golam Kibria et al.
Background: Since March 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been a major shock to health systems across the world. We examined national usage patterns for selected basic, essential health services, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda and Bangladesh, to determine ...
Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Gustavo Ángeles, Amy O. Tsui
Accurate knowledge of the characteristics of the health labour force that can affect health care production is of critical importance to health planners and policymakers. This study uses health facility survey data to examine characteristics of the primary health care labour force in Nicaragua, Tanz...
Shusmita Khan, M Moinuddin Haider, Kanta Jamil, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
Objective: The main objective of this paper is to document the changing paradigm of malnutrition in Bangladesh and estimating how this is creating an intergenerational risk. This paper also examines national policy responses to tackle the silent epidemic of double burden of malnutrition. Methods: Pu...
Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Gustavo Ángeles, Siân Curtis, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
Background: After a 40% reduction in maternal mortality ratio (MMR) during 2001-2010 in Bangladesh, the MMR level stagnated between 2010 and 2016 despite a steady increase in maternal health services use and improvements in overall socioeconomic status. We revisited the factors that contributed to M...
Gustavo Ángeles, Hannah Silverstein, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Mohammad Golam Kibria et al.
Abstract Background Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major shock to health systems across the world. We examined national usage patterns for selected basic, essential health services, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, to determine whether COVID-19 affected reporting of servi...
Haque, Rabiul, Gustavo Ángeles, Fardin Araf
Despite the significance of internal migration as an important social determinant of health that could potentially affect the utilization of maternal healthcare services, the magnitude of this relationship by different migration streams is yet to be fully explored in Bangladesh. This study using Ban...
Fardin Araf, Md Rabiul Haque, Gustavo Ángeles
Background Despite the significance of internal migration as an important social determinant of health that could potentially affect the utilization of maternal healthcare services, the magnitude of this relationship by different migration streams is yet to be fully explored in Bangladesh. Methods T...
Shusmita Khan, Gustavo Ángeles, M Moinuddin Haider, Saiqa Siraj et al.
Objective The main objective of this paper is to document the changing paradigm of malnutrition in Bangladesh and estimating how this is creating an intergenerational risk. This paper also examines national policy responses to tackle the silent epidemic of double burden of malnutrition. Methods Publ...
Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Gustavo Ángeles, Siân Curtis, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
Background Equity in health services use is related to utilizing equal treatment for equal health needs, irrespective of socioeconomic status. Inequity in maternal health services use in low- and middle-income countries has become a central public health policy and research issue in recent years to ...
Nibras Ar Rakib, Gustavo Ángeles, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
Background Since March 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been a major shock to health systems across the world. We examined national usage patterns for selected basic, essential health services, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda and Bangladesh, to determine w...