Gourab Adhikary, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Md. Wazed Ali, Md. Shamsuzzaman et al.
There is a paucity in current literature about the level of patients' satisfaction and factors influencing it in Bangladesh health system. We aimed to measure the level of patients' satisfaction across different types and levels of healthcare facilities and to determine which factors influence this ...
Mohammed Ziaul Hoque, Md. Nurul Alam, Kulsuma Akter Nahid
This study is based on the influence of consumers' health consciousness (HC), perceived knowledge (PK) and beliefs affecting the attitude and purchase intent (PI) of the consumers. The outcome of this study is obtained through an exclusive survey conducted on a randomly selected sample of 712 househ...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James et al.
BACKGROUND: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method ...
Mehdi Bin Samad, Md. Nurul Absar Bin Mohsin, Bodiul Alam Razu, Mohammad Tashnim Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: diabetic mice, we investigated the involvement of endocrine pathway in the insulin secretagogue activity of [6]-Gingerol and the mechanism(s) through which [6]-Gingerol ameliorates hyperglycemia. METHODS: type 2 diabetic mice were orally administered a daily dose of [6]-Gingerol (200 mg/...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Abraham D. Flaxman et al.
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use by national registration systems has been the amount of time and cost needed for...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Nurul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By registering all de...
Aminur Rahman, Monjura Khatun Nisha, Tahmina Begum, Sayem Ahmed et al.
The objectives of this study are to document the trend on utilisation of four or more (4+) antenatal care (ANC) over the last 22 years period and to explore the determinants and inequity of 4+ ANC utilisation as reported by the last two Bangladesh Demographic and Health surveys (BDHS) (2011 and 2014...
Alamgir Zaman Chowdhury, Salina Akter Jahan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Mohammed Moniruzzaman et al.
We report the presence of organophosphorus and carbamate residues in 24 surface water samples and five ground water samples from Pirgacha Thana, Rangpur district, Bangladesh using high-performance liquid chromatography. A number of samples of surface water from paddy fields were found to contain chl...
Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Sandra Thompson, Mohammed Ali, Nurul Alam et al.
The study assessed the timing and causes of neonatal deaths in a rural area of Bangladesh. A population-based demographic surveillance system, run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, recorded livebirths and neonatal deaths during 2003-2004 among a population of 2...
Nurul Alam, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Fitzroy J. Henry, Margubur Rahaman
Alam N (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh), Wojtyniak B, Henry F J and Rahaman M M. Mothers' personal and domestic hygiene and diarrhoea incidence in young children in rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 18...
Angela Baschieri, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev, Joseph Akuze, Doris Kwesiga et al.
BACKGROUND: may underestimate mortality rates particularly for stillbirths. METHODS: and FPH to measure pregnancy outcomes in a household survey in five selected INDEPTH Network sites in Africa and South Asia (Bandim in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau; Dabat in Ethiopia; IgangaMayuge in Uganda; Kintam...
Fasihul Kabir, Sabbir Siddique, Mohammed Rokibul Alam Kotwal, Mohammad Nurul Huda
This paper describes the Bangla Document Categorization using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) classifier. Here, document categorization is the task in which text documents are classified into one or more of predefined categories based on their contents. The proposed system can be divided into thre...
Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Hasan Mahmud, Lena Davidsson, Nur Alam et al.
Background & aims We investigated Helicobacter pylori (H pylori)-infection as a cause of iron deficiency (ID) and iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) or treatment failure of iron supplementation. Methods We randomized 200 Hp-infected children (positive urea breath test) 2-5 years of age with IDA (hemoglobi...
R.W. Bell, Md. Enamul Haque, M. Jahiruddin, Md. Moshiur Rahman et al.
We review the recent development of Conservation Agriculture (CA) for rice-based smallholder farms in the Eastern Gangetic Plain (EGP) and the underpinning research on agronomy, weed control, soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions being tested to accelerate its adoption in Bangladesh. The stud...
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Shamima Nasrin, Muhammad Ali Khan, A.B.M. Sharif Hossain et al.
Abstract Background The use of plants and their derived substances increases day by day for the discovery of therapeutic agents owing to their versatile applications. Current research is directed towards finding naturally-occurring antioxidants having anticancer properties from plant origin since ox...