Tazeen H. Jafar, Mihir Gandhi, H. Asita de Silva, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of hypertension is escalating, and control rates are poor in low- and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular mortality is high in rural areas. METHODS: We conducted a cluster-randomized, controlled trial in rural districts in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. A total of 30...
Fazlur Rahman, Saideep Bose, Michael Linnan, Aminur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: Interventions that mitigate drowning risk in developing countries are needed. This study presents the cost-effectiveness of a low-cost, scalable injury and drowning prevention program called Prevention of Child Injuries through Social-Intervention and Education (PRECISE) in Bangladesh. ME...
Sheel Bansal, Irena F. Creed, Brian A. Tangen, Scott D. Bridgham et al.
Abstract Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes. However, the underlying biogeochemical processes that affect wetland C pools and fluxes are complex and dynamic, m...
Eric Finkelstein, Anirudh Krishnan, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: COBRA-BPS (Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation-Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), a multi-component hypertension management programme that is led by community health workers, has been shown to be efficacious at reducing systolic blood pressure in rural communities in Bangladesh...
Tazeen H. Jafar, Asita de Silva, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: High blood pressure (BP) is the leading attributable risk for cardiovascular disease globally. There is little information on effective and sustainable public health system strategies for managing hypertension in South Asian countries. We conducted a feasibility study to gather prelimina...
for COBRA-BPS Study Group, Tazeen H. Jafar, Imtiaz Jehan, H. Asita de Silva et al.
BACKGROUND: High blood pressure (BP) is the leading attributable risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). In rural South Asia, hypertension continues to be a significant public health issue with sub-optimal BP control rates. The goal of the trial is to compare a multicomponent intervention (MCI) to us...
Semra Özdemir, Chetna Malhotra, Irene Teo, Si Ning Germaine Tan et al.
Purpose. We investigated 1) perceived roles in decision-making among advanced cancer patients in 5 Asian countries 2) associations of patient characteristics with these roles, and 3) the association of perceived roles with quality of life and perceived quality of care. Methods. We surveyed 1585 pati...
Irene Teo, Adithya Bhaskar, Semra Özdemir, Chetna Malhotra et al.
OBJECTIVES: Perceived cancer-related stigma can affect mental health and potentially treatment choices for patients with cancer. Nevertheless, perceived stigma is not very well understood in Asia. This study investigated across six developing Asian countries: (1) the prevalence of perceived stigma a...
Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst et al.
Abstract The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program, allocated in total 164 orbits of primary Wide-Field Camera 3 Ultraviolet and VISible light F275W imaging with ...
Irene Teo, Semra Özdemir, Chetna Malhotra, Grace Meijuan Yang et al.
CONTEXT Addressing symptoms of anxiety and depression is important in cancer palliative care. However, little information exists on the prevalence of high anxiety and depression scores and mental health service use among advanced cancer patients in South Asia. OBJECTIVES To examine among South Asian...
Semra Özdemir, Jia Jia Lee, Grace Meijuan Yang, Chetna Malhotra et al.
CONTEXT To date, little is known about palliative care (PC) awareness and utilization in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate PC awareness and its predictors, utilization of PC services, and perceived utilization barriers among advanced cancer ...
Tazeen H. Jafar, Mihir Gandhi, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
Tazeen H. Jafar, Imtiaz Jehan, H. de Silva, Aliya Naheed et al.
CHW checklist. (PDF 175Â kb)
Tazeen Jafar, Imtiaz Jehan, H. de Silva, Aliya Naheed et al.
Summary of intervention trainings. (PDF 13Â kb)
Tazeen Jafar, Imtiaz Jehan, H. de Silva, Aliya Naheed et al.
GP management checklist. (PDF 145Â kb)