M. M. Sheikh, N. Manzoor, Jafari Ali Ashraf, Muhammad Adnan et al.
Over the last few decades, weather and climate extremes have become a major focus of researchers, the media and general public due to their damaging effects on human society and infrastructure. Trends in indices of climate extremes are studied for the South Asian region using high-quality records of...
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Niaz Ahmed Khan
People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of B...
Abbas Bhuiya, Tamanna Sharmin, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi
This paper reports finding from a study carried out in a remote rural area of Bangladesh during December 2000. Nineteen key informants were interviewed for collecting data on domestic violence against women. Each key informant provided information about 10 closest neighbouring ever-married women cov...
J. V. Revadekar, Sultan Hameed, Daniel S. Collins, M. J. Manton et al.
Abstract South Asia covers more than 30° of latitude with weather observation stations situated from 6°N at Galle, Sri Lanka, to 36°N at Chitral in Pakistan. Moreover, the South Asian station network ranges in altitude from sea level to nearly 4000 m above sea level. This paper uses time series of 1...
Susmita Das, Mohammad Nahid Mia, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shahidul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) helps individuals to make effective use of available health services. In low-income countries such as Bangladesh, the less than optimum use of services could be due to low levels of HL. Bangladesh's health service delivery is pluralistic with a mix of public, private...
A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Donna Craig, Sharif A. Mukul, Niaz Ahmed Khan
Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Mohammad Iqbal, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Tania Binte Wahed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is one of the health workforce crisis countries in the world. In the face of an acute shortage of trained professionals, ensuring healthcare for a population of 150 million remains a major challenge for the nation. To understand the issues related to shortage of health workfor...
Manzoor Ahmed, Muhammad Hafeez, Muhammad Abdul Kaium, Sana Ullah et al.
Pursuing green growth is imperative to cope with the climate change battle. Green growth in top-polluting economies is being encouraged. The underlying work is aiming to investigate the impact of environmental technology and banking sector on green growth. More precisely, the study employs CS-ARDL a...
Ayorinde B. Akinbobola, Ryan Kean, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Richard S. Quilliam
Candia auris is an emerging human pathogenic yeast; yet, despite phenotypic attributes and genomic evidence suggesting that it probably emerged from a natural reservoir, we know nothing about the environmental phase of its life cycle and the transmission pathways associated with it. The thermotolera...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be...
Fatema Khatun, Anita Heywood, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Traditional gender roles result in women lagging behind men in the use of modern technologies, especially in developing countries. Although there is rapid uptake of mobile phone use in Bangladesh, investigation of gender differences in the ownership, access and use of mobile phones in ge...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an...
Sabrina Rasheed, Abdullah Siddique, Tamanna Sharmin, A M Rumayan Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: High salt consumption is an important risk factor of elevated blood pressure. In Bangladesh about 20 million people are at high risk of hypertension due to climate change induced saline intrusion in water. The objective of this study is to assess beliefs, perceptions, and practices assoc...
Kaneta Choudhury, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Abbas Bhuiya
Bangladesh typifies many developing countries experiencing an increasing trend in tobacco consumption. However, little is known about the general pattern of tobacco consumption and about population groups who are more prone to tobacco consumption. This paper aimed at generating knowledge on tobacco ...
Sabrina Rasheed, Shamshad Jahan, Tamanna Sharmin, Shahidul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence from numerous studies suggests that salt intake is an important determinant of elevated blood pressure. Robust data about salt consumption among adults in Bangladesh is sparse. However, much evidence suggests saline intrusion due to sea level rise as a result of climate change e...
Shampa Saha, Md Nazmul Hasan, Lindsay Kim, Jennifer L. Farrar et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality in young children in Bangladesh. We present the epidemiology of pneumonia in Bangladeshi children <5 years before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction and investigate factors associated with disease sev...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population sur...
Alayne M. Adams, Herfina Nababan, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi
BACKGROUND: The beneficial influence of social networks on health and wellbeing is well-established. In poor urban settlements in Bangladesh, BRAC's Manoshi programme trains community health workers (CHWs) to support women through pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods. This paper test the hypot...
Manzoor Ahmed, Ahmed Kazi Saleh, Islam Khan Nurul, Ahmed Romij
This country analytical review examines the key issues in access to and participation in primary and secondary education in Bangladesh, with a special focus on areas and dimensions of exclusion. Against a background of overall progress, particularly in closing the gender gap in primary and secondary...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis. Overviews of the state of external cause mortality in Africa ...