Jahidur Rahman Khan, Nabil Awan, Farjana Misu
BACKGROUND: Anemia is a global public health problem but the burden of anemia is disproportionately borne among children in developing countries. Anemia in early stages of life has serious consequences on the growth and development of the children. We examine the prevalence of anemia, possible assoc...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Nabil Awan, Md. Mazharul Islam, Olav Muurlink
Background The rapid growth in cases of COVID-19 has challenged national healthcare capacity, testing systems at an advanced ICU, and public health infrastructure level. This global study evaluates the association between multi-factorial healthcare capacity and case fatality of COVID-19 patients by ...
Haribondhu Sarma, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Fakhar Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Poor nutrition during childhood impedes physical and mental development of children, which propagate the vicious cycle of intergenerational under nutrition. This paper is aimed at understanding the determinants of stunting among children aged 0 to 59 months in Bangladesh. METHODS: The st...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Nabil Awan
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has experienced a significant reduction of child mortality over the past decades which helped achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target. But the mortality among under-5 aged children is still relatively high and it needs a substantial effort to achieve the Susta...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Md. Mazharul Islam, Nabil Awan, Olav Muurlink
BACKGROUND: Low birth weight (LBW) remains a leading global cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. This study leverages a large national survey to determine current prevalence and socioeconomic, demographic and heath related factors associated with LBW in Bangladesh. METHODS: Data from the Mult...
Haribondhu Sarma, Nazmus Saquib, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Juliann Saquib et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing in Bangladesh. It is higher among Bangladeshi women than among men. This study was conducted to assess a host of demographic and socioeconomic correlates of overweight and obesity, separately for the urban and rural women of Banglade...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Srizan Chowdhury, Humayera Islam, Enayetur Raheem
Anemia, especially among children, is a serious public health problem in Bangladesh. Apart from understanding the factors associated with anemia, it may be of interest to know the likelihood of anemia given the factors. Prediction of disease status is a key to community and health service policy mak...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Wasimul Bari, A. H. M. Mahbub Latif
BACKGROUND: The distribution of birth intervals can be used to draw attention to important characteristics of dynamics of fertility process. The main objective of this paper is to examine the effects of socioeconomic, demographic and proximate determinants on the length of birth intervals of women o...
Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Md. Nizam Uddin, Jahidur Rahman Khan
South-Asian countries are considered to be a potential breeding ground for HIV epidemic. Although the prevalence of this incurable disease is low in Bangladesh, women still have been identified as more vulnerable group. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge about HIV/AIDS: its trends and ...
Sakifa Aktar, Ashis Talukder, Md. Martuza Ahamad, A. H. M. Kamal et al.
Providing appropriate care for people suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a significant global challenge. Many individuals who become infected may have pre-existing conditions that may interact with COVID-19 to increase symptom severity and mortality risk...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Enamul Kabir
A complicating factor for child marriage in Bangladesh is age heaping or digital preference, where young girls misreport their age, claiming to be older or younger than they are. Analysis based on four nationally representative cross-sectional surveys over the last 10 years has shown that the age ad...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Md. Belal Hossain, Promit Ananyo Chakraborty, Sabuj Kanti Mistry
Faecal contamination (by Escherichia coli [E. coli]) of household drinking water can have adverse effects on child health, particularly increasing the episodes of childhood diarrhea; however, the evidence is scanty in Bangladesh. This study utilised data from the most recent nationally representativ...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Nabil Awan, Rownak Jahan Archie, Nasrin Sultana et al.
This study aims to explore the association between drinking water salinity and hypertension in three coastal sub-districts of Bangladesh. The study uses complete data on 6,296 individuals extracted from the latest Bangladesh Poverty and Groundwater Salinity Survey and a mixed-effects logistic regres...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Jabed Tomal, Enayetur Raheem
Childhood stunting is a serious public health concern in Bangladesh. Earlier research used conventional statistical methods to identify the risk factors of stunting, and very little is known about the applications and usefulness of machine learning (ML) methods that can identify the risk factors of ...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, K. Shuvo Bakar
This study seeks to identify the spatial risk pattern of households (HHs) exposed to arsenic contamination in Bangladesh by adjusting potential socio-economic, demographic factors. Data from Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2012-13 are used where hierarchical Bayesian spatial ordered log...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Molla Huq
Abstract Objective The availability of iodized salt in households remains low in Bangladesh, which calls for improving the salt iodization quality and its coverage. The present study assessed the socio-economic disparity in Bangladesh to characterize the availability of iodized salt at household lev...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Amena Sultana, Md. Mazharul Islam, Raaj Kishore Biswas
Residential area greenness may influence diabetes, but limited studies have explored this relationship in developing countries. This study assessed the association between residential area greenness and diabetes among urban adults in Bangladesh. The mediation effect of the body mass index (BMI) was ...
Enayetur Raheem, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Sorowar Hossain
Efforts to mitigate public health concerns are showing encouraging results over the time but disparities across the geographic regions still exist within countries. Inadequate researches on the regional disparities of health indicators based on representative and comparable data create challenges to...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Md. Belal Hossain, Rajat Das Gupta
Household air pollution from cooking fuel may have adverse health effects, particularly among women from countries like Bangladesh, where women participate in most household cooking activities. However, little is known about how cooking fuel influences adult women's blood pressure (BP) status in Ban...
Md. Mazharul Islam, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Antara Kabir, Muhammad Zillur Rahman Khan et al.