Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
In efforts to reduce gender and socioeconomic disparities in the health of populations, the provision of medical services alone is clearly inadequate. While socioeconomic development is assumed important in rectifying gender and socioeconomic inequities in health care access, service use and ultimat...
Nahitun Naher, Roksana Hoque, Muhammad Shaikh Hassan, Dina Balabanova et al.
BACKGROUND: The dynamic intersection of a pluralistic health system, large informal sector, and poor regulatory environment have provided conditions favourable for 'corruption' in the LMICs of south and south-east Asia region. 'Corruption' works to undermine the UHC goals of achieving equity, qualit...
Timothy Evans, Alayne M. Adams, Rafi Mohammed, Alison H. Norris
Alayne M. Adams, Rubana Islam, Tanvir Ahmed
In Bangladesh, the health risks of unplanned urbanization are disproportionately shouldered by the urban poor. At the same time, affordable formal primary care services are scarce, and what exists is almost exclusively provided by non-government organizations (NGOs) working on a project basis. So wh...
Alayne M. Adams, Timothy Evans, Rafi Mohammed, Jennifer Farnsworth
Alayne M. Adams, Tanvir Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Timothy Evans et al.
A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should draw on the experience of the first generation of innovations that underlie the ...
Alayne M. Adams, Atonu Rabbani, Shamim Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.
By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, significant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health approach, key features of the country's development experience can be identified th...
Shakil Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Rubana Islam, Shaikh Mehdi Hasan et al.
Ensuring access to healthcare in emergency health situations is a persistent concern for health system planners. Emergency services, including critical care units for severe burns and coronary events, are amongst those for which travel time is the most crucial, potentially making a difference betwee...
Atonu Rabbani, Akib Khan, Sifat Shahana Yusuf, Alayne M. Adams
BACKGROUND: We explore long-term trends and determinants of socioeconomic inequities in chronic childhood undernutrition measured by stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh. Given that one in three children remain stunted in Bangladesh, the socioeconomic mapping of stunting prevalence may b...
Alayne M. Adams, Rubana Islam, Sifat Shahana Yusuf, Anthony Panasci et al.
INTRODUCTION: Accompanying rapid urbanization in Bangladesh are inequities in health and healthcare which are most visibly manifested in slums or low-income settlements. This study examines socioeconomic, demographic and geographic patterns of self-reported chronic illness and healthcare seeking amo...
Anne-Sophie Roy, Maud Mazaniello-Chézol, Maria Rueda-Martinez, Sohana Shafique et al.
INTRODUCTION: Increasing food and nutritional inequities are apparent in urban settings across Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), along with nutrition transition towards ultra-processed diets high in fat, sugar, and salt. In urban informal settlements, characterized by insecurity and inadequa...
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...
Abbas Bhuiya, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Faruque Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams
Abstract This chapter describes the separate and joint health benefits arising from a rural development program designed to promote the rights and status of poor women, and a maternal child health program in rural Bangladesh. The case study is remarkable in that the interventions have been accompani...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
This paper explores a number of socioeconomic factors thought to explain the wide prevalence of undernutrition among rural Bangladeshi women. The 1992 baseline survey data of the BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project at Matlab were used. Anthropometry was performed on a random sub-sample of 1462 curre...
Rocco Panciera, Akib Khan, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Shakil Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Availability of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial to avert maternal death due to life-threatening complications potentially arising during delivery. Research on the determinants of utilization of EmOC has neglected urban settings, where traffic congestion can pose a significant ...