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 ...
Fariha Binte Hossain, Gourab Adhikary, Arif Chowdhury, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon
Abstract Background Although there has been a well-established association between overweight-obesity and hypertension, whether such associations are heterogeneous for South Asian populations, or for different socioeconomic groups is not well-known. We explored the associations of overweight and obe...
M. Tasdik Hasan, Gourab Adhikary, Sultan Mahmood, Nowshin Papri et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world has been ranked 9th on the Climate Risk Index for 2017: the 10 most affected countries & 7th on the Long-Term Climate Risk Index: the 10 countries most affected from 1998 to 2017. Every year it is afflicted with various...
Jasim Uddin, Tuhin Biswas, Gourab Adhikary, S. Wazed Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: Mobile phone-based technology has been used in improving the delivery of healthcare services in many countries. However, data on the effects of this technology on improving primary healthcare services in resource-poor settings are limited. The aim of this study is to develop and test a m...
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Gourab Adhikary, Md. Wazed Ali, Md. Shamsuzzaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Service readiness of health facilities is an integral part of providing comprehensive quality healthcare to the community. Comprehensive assessment of general and service-specific (i.e. child immunization) readiness will help to identify the bottlenecks in healthcare service delivery and...
Fariha Binte Hossain, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Md Shehab Uddin Al-Abid, Sultan Mahmood et al.
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to investigate the socioeconomic inequalities in the burden of underweight and overweight among children in South Asia. We also examined other factors that were associated with these outcomes independently of household's socioeconomic status. DESIGN: Nationally-representative su...
Md Jasim Uddin, Gourab Adhikary, Md. Wazed Ali, Shahabuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Like other countries in Asia, measles-rubella (MR) vaccine coverage in Bangladesh is suboptimal whereas 90-95 % coverage is needed for elimination of these diseases. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh implemented MR campaign in January-Febru...
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Fariha Binte Hossain, Gourab Adhikary, Rajat Das Gupta et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has been suffering from an epidemiological transition from infectious and maternal diseases to non-communicable lifestyle-related diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers etc. The burden of diabetes has been increasing rapidly due to high incidence as well as p...
Sajal Kumar Adhikary, S. K Das, Gourab Saha, Tanmay Chaki
Natural droughts are recurring phenomena that usually affect nearly all components of the hydrological cycle. Groundwater (GW) drought is a particular type of hydrological drought. It is generally caused when the GW heads in an aquifer fall below a critical or threshold level over a certain period o...
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Fariha Binte Hossain, Blake Thomson, Gourab Adhikary et al.
Background While recent evidence suggests that the overall prevalence of overweight in young children in Bangladesh is low, little is known about variation in trends by sex, socioeconomic status, urbanicity, and region. We investigated the trends in overweight among children aged 24-59 months by the...
Fariha Binte Hossain, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Gourab Adhikary, Arif Chowdhury
ABSTRACT Although there has been a well-established association between adiposity and hypertension, whether such associations are heterogeneous for South Asian populations or for different socioeconomic groups is not well-known. We analysed the recent Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from Ba...
Fariha Binte Hossain, Gourab Adhikary, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon
ABSTRACT Objectives Little is known about the relative contributions of maternal and socioeconomic factors on low birth weight in Bangladesh and whether they differ by sex. We examined the prevalence and associated maternal and socioeconomic factors of low birth weight separately among boys and girl...
Fariha Binte Hossain, Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Md Shehab Uddin Al-Abid, Sultan Mahmood Sami et al.
ABSTRACT Background Developing countries are now facing double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition among children and adults. We aimed to explore the double burden of malnutrition among children aged 24-59 months by household’s socioeconomic status in South Asian context. Methods Children wit...
Jasim Uddin, Tuhin Biswas, Gourab Adhikary, Md. Wazed Ali et al.
Household survey questionnaire. (DOCX 91 kb)
Jasim Uddin, Tuhin Biswas, Gourab Adhikary, Md. Wazed Ali et al.
Household survey questionnaire. (DOCX 91 kb)