Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, A.K.M. Ahasan Habib, Zarina Shukur, Fazil Ibrahim et al.
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker
OBJECTIVES: Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health concern, especially in developing countries, and is frequently related to child morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to identify key determinants that influence the prevalence of LBW in selected developing countries. METHODS: Secondary...
Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Md Mizanur Rahman
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects on pregnancy outcomes of the duration of the preceding interpregnancy interval (IPI) and type of pregnancy outcome that began the interval. DESIGN: Observational population-based study. SETTING: The Maternal Child Health-Family Planning (MCH-FP) area of Matlab, Ban...
Bruce M. Irons, Abdur Razzaque
Tahia Anan Dhira, Mahir A. Rahman, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Jeenat Mehareen
This study investigated the reliability and factorial validity of General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) in the context of university students in Bangladesh. The research aimed to assess whether the original one-dimensional model or a model containing both somatic and cognitive-emotional factors is appr...
Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nawi Ng, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and...
Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Md Mizanur Rahman
Using high-quality longitudinal data on 125,720 singleton live births in Matlab, Bangladesh, we assessed the effects of duration of intervals between pregnancy outcomes on infant and child mortality and how these effects vary over subperiods of infancy and childhood and by the type of outcome that b...
Eunice Twumwaa Tagoe, Nurnabi Sheikh, Alec Morton, Justice Nonvignon et al.
The development of COVID-19 vaccines does not imply the end of the global pandemic as now countries have to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses and work towards their successful rollout. Vaccination across the world has progressed slowly in all, but a few high-income countries (HICs) as governmen...
Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana et al.
INTRODUCTION: Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been recommended to mitigate such burdens for households in Bangladesh. About 88% of the population of Bangladesh depends on work in ...
Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Enayetur Raheem, Tanvira Afroze Sultana, Shameema Ferdous et al.
Thalassemias are emerging as a global public health concern. Due to remarkable success in the reduction of childhood mortality by controlling infectious diseases in developing countries, thalassemias are likely to be a major public health concern in the coming decades in South Asia. Despite the fact...
Jesmin Pervin, Allisyn C. Moran, Monjur Rahman, Abdur Razzaque et al.
BACKGROUND: Antenatal Care (ANC) during pregnancy can play an important role in the uptake of evidence-based services vital to the health of women and their infants. Studies report positive effects of ANC on use of facility-based delivery and perinatal mortality. However, most existing studies are l...
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nurnabi Sheikh et al.
In Bangladesh, the burden of diarrheal diseases is significant among children <5 years old. The objective of this study is to capture the prevalence of and health care-seeking behavior for childhood diarrheal diseases (CDDs) and to identify the factors associated with CDDs at a population level in B...
Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Nurnabi Sheikh, Raisul Akram et al.
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are one of the leading causes of child mortality worldwide and contribute significant health burden for developing nations such as Bangladesh. Seeking care and prompt management is crucial to reduce disease severity and to prevent associated morbidity ...
Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Tania Jahir et al.
Approximately 80% of deaths attributed to malaria worldwide occurred mainly in Africa in 2015. Kenya is one of the major malaria endemic countries, making malaria the leading public health concern in this country. This study intended to document the prevalence of malaria and determine associated fac...
Bruno F. Simões, David J. Gower, Arne Redsted Rasmussen, Md. Abdur Razzaque Sarker et al.
Snakes are descended from highly visual lizards [1] but have limited (probably dichromatic) color vision attributed to a dim-light lifestyle of early snakes [2-4]. The living species of front-fanged elapids, however, are ecologically very diverse, with ∼300 terrestrial species (cobras, taipans, etc....