Khaula Khatlani, Olakunle Alonge, Aminur Rahman, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
Unintentional injury-related mortality rate, including drowning among children under five, is disproportionately higher in low- and middle-income countries. The evidence links lapse of supervision with childhood unintentional injury deaths. We determined the relationship between caregiver supervisio...
Rakibul M. Islam, John Oldroyd, Md Nazmul Karim, Sultana Monira Hossain et al.
Introduction Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) including urinary incontinence, faecal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse are common debilitating conditions among women in high-income countries. However, PFDs in women in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) have not been studied extensively. We aim to...
Tazeen Tahsina, Nazia Binte Ali, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Tanvir Huda et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has committed to universal health coverage, and options to decrease household out-of-pocket expenditure (OPE) are being explored. Understanding the determinants of OPE is an essential step. This study aimed to estimate and identify determinants of OPE in seeking health care fo...
Shams El Arifeen, Abdullah H Baqui, César G. Victora, Robert E. Black et al.
This paper reports on a population-based sample survey of 2,289 children aged less than five years (under-five children) conducted in 2000 as a baseline for the Bangladesh component of the Multi-country Evaluation (MCE) of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy. Of interest were rat...
Aminur Rahman, Tahmina Begum, Fatema Ashraf, Sadika Akhter et al.
BACKGROUND: The partograph has been endorsed by World Health Organization (WHO) since 1994 which presents an algorithm for assessing maternal and foetal conditions and labor progression. Monitoring labour with a partograph can reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes such as prolonged labor, emergency C-se...
Suman Kanti Chowdhury, Sk Masum Billah, Shams El Arifeen, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque
OBJECTIVES: Neonatal deaths account for 45% of all under-five deaths globally and 60% in Bangladesh. This study aimed to investigate the most common symptoms and complications in neonates, care-seeking practices of the mothers for their sick neonates, and factors associated with the care-seeking pra...
Sk Masum Billah, Tarana E. Ferdous, Mohd Anisul Karim, Michael J. Dibley et al.
BACKGROUND: Prevalence of stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh is 36%, varying with geographic and socio-economic characteristics. Previously, research groups statistically modelled the effect of 10 individual nutrition-specific interventions targeting the critical first 1000 days of lif...
Atique Iqbal Chowdhury, Rafiqul Haider, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Aliki Christou et al.
BACKGROUND: A geographic information system (GIS)-based transport network within an emergency referral system can be the key to reducing health system delays and increasing the chances of survival, especially during an emergency. We employed a GIS to design an emergency transport system for the rapi...
Rondi Anderson, Anna Williams, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Nicole Jess et al.
BACKGROUND: A necessary precursor for quality maternity care provision is high quality education. The quality of care that students are exposed to during clinical education on maternity wards shapes their competencies and professional identities. In this study, we look at the introduction of midwive...
Rubhana Raqib, Protim Sarker, Evana Akhtar, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda et al.
BACKGROUND: Seroprevalence studies have been carried out in many developed and developing countries to evaluate ongoing and past infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Data on this infection in marginalized populations in urban slums are limited, which may offer...
Nabila Purno, Animesh Biswas, Rondi Anderson, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is often a neglected topic of intervention in humanitarian crises despite its wide-ranging impact on women and girls' well-being. Increasing frequency of climate-induced natural disasters calls for an urgent need to identify innovative practices for s...
Nazia Binte Ali, Farhana Karim, Sk Masum Billah, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth (EIBF) and no prelacteal feeding are WHO recommended practices for improving maternal and newborn health outcomes. Globally, EIBF can avert around 22% of newborn death. In recent years, Bangladesh has experienced increasing facil...
Y. Natalia Alfonso, Olakunle Alonge, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Kamran Ul Baset et al.
This study provides a comprehensive review of the care-seeking patterns and direct economic burden of injuries from the victims' perspective in rural Bangladesh using a 2013 household survey covering 1.17 million people. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analyses were used to derive rates and tes...
Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury, Farhana Karim, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Nazia Binte Ali et al.
Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) is of paramount importance in the realm of attaining sustainable development goals that also focuses on universal health coverage (UHC). The study aimed at identifying and exploring the bottlenecks in MNH services in Hard-to-reach (HtR) areas of Bangladesh using the...
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Arul Earnest, Rasa Ruseckaite, Paula Lorgelly et al.
Purpose The purpose of the study was to compare completeness, timeliness and cost of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) collection using telephone, email and post in men with prostate cancer. Methods A parallel, three-arm randomised controlled equivalence trial. 1168 patients were randomised ...
Olakunle Alonge, Siran He, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Shumona Sharmin Salam et al.
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to compare all-cause mortality and drowning-specific mortality rates and survival times among birth cohorts of children from rural Bangladesh over a 14-year period. METHOD: Seven birth cohorts of children aged 12-59 months were created using data from the M...
Anna Williams, Abu Sayed Hasan, Muhammad Munir Hussain, Eshani Ruwanpura et al.
Across low- and middle-income countries, investment in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) is growing. However, the lack of comprehensive ASRH data hinders programmes. This mapping review examines the available evidence on ASRH in Bangladesh and points out the areas where critical infor...
Shumona Sharmin Salam, Nazia Binte Ali, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Tazeen Tahsina et al.
BACKGROUND: Gestational age (GA) is a key determinant of newborn survival and long-term impairment. Accurate estimation of GA facilitates timely provision of essential interventions to improve maternal and newborn outcomes. Menstrual based dating, ultrasound based dating, and neonatal estimates are ...
Y. Natalia Alfonso, Adnan A. Hyder, Olakunle Alonge, Shumona Sharmin Salam et al.
BACKGROUND: Drowning is the leading cause of death among children 12-59 months old in rural Bangladesh. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of a large-scale crèche (daycare) intervention in preventing child drowning. METHODS: The cost of the crèches intervention was evaluated using an ingred...
Olakunle Alonge, Priyanka Agrawal, Khaula Khatlani, Saidur Rahman Mashreky et al.
INTRODUCTION: There is currently no defined method for assessing injury severity using population-based data, which limits our understanding of the burden of non-fatal injuries and community-based approaches for primary prevention of injuries. This study describes a systematic approach, Population-b...