Md Mizanur Rahman, Sarah Krull Abe, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Mikiko Kanda et al.
Background Anemia is a leading cause of maternal deaths and adverse pregnancy outcomes in developing countries. Objectives We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled prevalence of anemia, the association between maternal anemia and pregnancy outcomes, and the populatio...
Joy E Lawn, Kenji Shibuya, Cláudia Stein
OBJECTIVE: Fewer than 3% of 4 million annual neonatal deaths occur in countries with reliable vital registration (VR) data. Global estimates for asphyxia-related neonatal deaths vary from 0.7 to 1.2 million. Estimates for intrapartum stillbirths are not available. We aimed to estimate the numbers of...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Sarah Krull Abe, Mikiko Kanda, Saki Narita et al.
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based cohort studies of maternal body mass index (BMI) and risk of adverse birth and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and the British Nursing Index were searched from inception to February 201...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Eiko Saito, Papia Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has a high proportion of households incurring catastrophic health expenditure, and very limited risk sharing mechanisms. Identifying determinants of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and catastrophic health expenditure may reveal opportunities to reduce costs and protect households...
Su Myat Han, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Khin Thet Swe et al.
BACKGROUND: Attainment of universal health coverage is a global health priority. The Myanmar Government has committed to attainment of universal health coverage by 2030, but progress so far has not been assessed. We aimed to estimate national and subnational health service coverage and financial ris...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Anup Karan, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Alexander Parsons et al.
Importance: Achieving universal health coverage is one of the key targets in the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Objective: To investigate progress toward universal health coverage in 5 South Asian countries and assess inequalities in health services and financial ...
Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Khin Thet Swe et al.
BACKGROUND: Many countries are implementing health system reforms to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. To understand the progress towards UHC in Bangladesh, we estimated trends in indicators of the health service and of financial risk protection. We also estimated the probability of B...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Shamima Akter, Sarah Krull Abe et al.
OBJECTIVES: We investigated the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension and associated risk factors in the Bangladeshi adult population. METHODS: The data for this study were extracted from the nationally-representative 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Socio-demog...
Ralfh Moreno, Herfina Nababan, Erika Ota, Windy Mariane Virenia Wariki et al.
BACKGROUND: Community interventions to promote condom use are considered to be a valuable tool to reduce the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In particular, special emphasis has been placed on implementing such interventions through...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Eiko Saito, Papia Sultana et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate self-reported illness and household strategies for coping with payments for health care in a city in Bangladesh. METHODS: A cluster-sampled probability survey of 1593 households in the city of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, was conducted in 2011. Multilevel logistic regression - wit...
Cherri Zhang, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman, Alfred Edwin Yawson et al.
Ghana has made significant stride towards universal health coverage (UHC) by implementing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003. This paper investigates the progress of UHC indicators in Ghana from 1995 to 2015 and makes future predictions up to 2030 to assess the probability of achiev...
Khin Thet Swe, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Yvonne Teng et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2017, 785 million people globally lacked access to basic services of drinking water and 2 billion people lived without basic sanitation services. Most of these people live in low- and lower-middle-income countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. To monitor the pr...
Cherri Zhang, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman, Alfred Edwin Yawson et al.
Ghana has made significant stride towards universal health coverage (UHC) by implementing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003. This paper investigates the progress of UHC indicators in Ghana from 1995 to 2030 and makes future predictions up to 2030 to assess the probability of achiev...
MD. Mizanur RAHMAN, Anup Karan, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Alexander Parsons et al.
IMPORTANCE Achieving universal health coverage is one of the key targets in the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. OBJECTIVE To investigate progress toward universal health coverage in 5 South Asian countries and assess inequalities in health services and financial ri...
Shaikh Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Shamima Akter, Sarah Krull Abe et al.
OBJECTIVES:: We investigated the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension and associated risk factors in the Bangladeshi adult population. METHODS:: The data for this study were extracted from the nationally-representative 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Socio-dem...