Timothy Evans, Monica Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
Foreword PART I: ESTABLISHING VALUES 1. Challenging Health Inequities: An Introduction 2. The Social Basis of Disparities in Health 3. Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity 4. Health Equity in a Globalizing World PART II: ASSESSING AND ANALYZING THE HEALTH DIVIDE Introduction to Part II 5. Measuring D...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sabrina Rasheed et al.
Bangladesh, the eighth most populous country in the world with about 153 million people, has recently been applauded as an exceptional health performer. In the first paper in this Series, we present evidence to show that Bangladesh has achieved substantial health advances, but the country's success ...
Davidson R. Gwatkin, Abbas Bhuiya, César G. Victora
Health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off, who need them less, than to the poor, who are unable to obtain them. In the absence of a concerted effort to ensure that health systems reach disadvantaged groups more effectively, such inequitie...
The Global Dynamic Interventions Strategies for COVID-19 Collaborative Group, Rajiv Chowdhury, Kevin Heng, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon et al.
Abstract To date, non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) have been the mainstay for controlling the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While NPIs are effective in preventing health systems overload, these long-term measures are likely to have significant adverse economic consequences. Th...
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...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Awlad Hossain, Ahmed Mushtaque RajaChowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh. This data is essential for developing an HRH policy and plan to meet ...
Evans, Timothy, Whitehead, Margaret, Diderichsen, Finn, Bhuiya, Abbas et al.
Abstract This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of g...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Safia Azim, Abbas Bhuiya, Lars Åke Persson
This paper explores the magnitude of physical violence by husbands, the disclosure of it and the help-seeking behavior of abused women in urban and rural Bangladesh. The data come from a larger study on domestic violence against women conducted in Bangladesh during 2000-2004. All ever-married women ...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Marie Vahter, Mohammad Abdul Wahed, Nazmul Sohel et al.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess prevalence of arsenic exposure through drinking water and skin lesions, and their variation by geographical area, age, sex, and socioeconomic conditions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Skin lesion cases were identified by screening the entire population above 4 years o...
Gerald Bloom, Hilary Standing, Henry C. Lucas, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
Amal Halder, Carole Tronchet, Shamima Akhter, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
BACKGROUND: We analyzed data from the baseline assessment of a large intervention project to describe typical handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh, and compare measures of hand cleanliness with household characteristics. METHODS: We randomly selected 100 villages from 36 districts in rural Bang...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Carole Tronchet, Shamima Akhter et al.
Handwashing with soap prevents diarrhea and respiratory disease, but it is rarely practiced in high-need settings. Among 100 randomly selected villages in rural Bangladesh, field workers enrolled 10 households per village and observed and recorded household activities for 5 hours. Field workers obse...
Tanvir Ahmed, Henry C. Lucas, Azfar Sadun Khan, Rubana Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The health system of Bangladesh is haunted by challenges of accessibility and affordability. Despite impressive gains in many health indicators, recent evidence has raised concerns regarding the utilization, quality and equity of healthcare. In the context of new and unfamiliar public he...
Fatema Khatun, Anita Heywood, Pradeep Ray, SMA Hanifi et al.
Introduction Evidence in favor of mHealth for healthcare delivery in settings where trained health workforce is limited or unavailable is accumulating. With rapid growth in access to mobile phones and an acute shortage of health workforce in Bangladesh, mHealth initiatives are increasing with more t...