Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Mohammad Yunus, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic in drinking water causes increased coronary artery disease (CAD) and death from CAD, but its association with stroke is not known. METHODS: Prospective cohort study with arsenic exposure measured in well water at baseline. 61074 men and women aged 18 years or older on January 200...
Nazmul Alam, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Séni Kouanda, Mathieu Seppey et al.
OBJECTIVE: To understand the role of transportation in accessing health care during pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period among women in rural Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. METHODS: An exploratory mixed methods study was conducted in Mymensingh district in Bangladesh and Kaya district in Bur...
Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Hafni Bachtiar, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sunil Fernando et al.
AIM: To compare the mortality, morbidity of emergency and elective cesarean section with vaginal delivery among Asian teaching hospitals. METHODS: Hospital based prospective study at 12 centers of 9 countries. RESULTS: 12 591 vaginal deliveries, 3062 elective and 4328 emergency cesarean section were...
Athena Anwar, Japhet Killewo, Mahbub-E-Elahi Chowdhury, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a maternal mortality ratio of 320 per 100,000 live births (NIPORT 2001). As part of its effort to promote safe motherhood and reduce maternal mortality, the gov-ernment has been upgrading existing health facilities and services in order t...
Kavita Singh, Paul Brodish, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Taposh Kumar Biswas et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh achieved Millennium Development Goal 4, a two thirds reduction in under-five mortality from 1990 to 2015. However neonatal mortality remains high, and neonatal deaths now account for 62% of under-five deaths in Bangladesh. The objective of this paper is to understand which new...
Lumbini Roy, Taposh Kumar Biswas, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
BACKGROUND: Signal functions for emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) are the major interventions for averting maternal and neonatal mortalities. Readiness of the facilities is essential to provide all the basic and comprehensive signal functions for EmONC to ensure emergency services from t...
Fauzia Akhter Huda, Anisuddin Ahmed, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta, Musharrat Jahan et al.
Worldwide, for an estimated 358,000 women, pregnancy and childbirth end in death and mourning, and beyond these maternal deaths, 9-10% of pregnant women or about 14 million women per year suffer from acute maternal complications. This paper documents the types and severity of maternal and foetal com...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Shafayatul Islam Shiblee, Heidi E. Jones
BACKGROUND: Aponjon (meaning "near and dear ones"), a mobile phone-based mHealth service, customized voice messages for expectant (6-42 weeks pregnancy) and new mothers (1-52 weeks after delivery) for promotion of recommended healthcare practices. The Aponjon system sent two voice messages per week ...
Nazmul Alam, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Malay Kanti Mridha, Anisuddin Ahmed et al.
Negotiation for condom use by female sex workers with their male clients can enhance condom use. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1395 female sex workers; 439 from two brothels, 442 from 30 hotels, and 514 from streets of two cities in Bangladesh to determine the predictors of condom use ...
Ema Akter, Aniqa Tasnim Hossain, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Anisuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Assessing the quality of antenatal care (ANC) is imperative for improving care provisions during pregnancy to ensure the health of mother and baby. In Bangladesh, there is a dearth of research on ANC quality using nationally representative data to understand its levels and determinants. ...
M. Hafizur Rahman, Halida H. Akhter, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, H. Yusuf et al.
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to measure and to describe obstetric deaths in Bangladesh. METHODS: We reviewed hospital records and interviewed health workers in clinic sites and field workers who cared for pregnant women. RESULTS: We obtained case reports of 28998 deaths of women aged 10...
Taposh Kumar Biswas, Hasnat Sujon, M. Hafizur Rahman, Henry B. Perry et al.
BACKGROUND: Healthcare service delivery systems need to ensure standard quality of care (QoC) for achieving expected health outcomes. Although Bangladesh has a good healthcare service delivery system, there are major concerns about the quality of maternal and newborn health (MNH) care services, whic...
Hussain Yusuf, Halida H. Akhter, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Roger Rochat
Limited information is available at the national and district levels on causes of death among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh. During 1996-1997, health-service functionaries in facilities providing obstetric and maternal and child-heath services were interviewed on their knowledge of deaths ...
Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Jahangir Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Financing healthcare through out-of-pocket (OOP) payment is a major barrier in accessing healthcare for the poor people. The Health Economics Unit (HEU) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the government of Bangladesh has developed Shasthyo Suroksha Karmasuchi (SSK), a health...
Sadika Akhter, Iqbal Anwar, Rashida Akter, Feroza Akhter Kumkum et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In Bangladesh, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality accounting for 31% of all blood transfusions in the country. Although safe blood transfusion is one of the 8 signal functions of Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmOC) strategy, m...