P. G. Whitehead, Emily Barbour, Martyn N. Futter, Sananda Sarkar et al.
The potential impacts of climate change and socio-economic change on flow and water quality in rivers worldwide is a key area of interest. The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) is one of the largest river basins in the world serving a population of over 650 million, and is of vital concern to India an...
John Caesar, Tamara Janes, Alec R. Lindsay, B. Bhaskaran
South Asia is a region of complex atmospheric dynamics and therefore changes resulting from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, combined with existing vulnerability to extreme weather events such as flooding, could put the region at particular risk from climate change. However, current climate...
James Rufus John, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Getahun Kebede, Narendar Manohar et al.
BACKGROUND: Timely breastfeeding initiation is a simple but important measure that has protective effects on infants and mothers. This study aims to determine the predictors of early breastfeeding initiation among mothers residing in Ethiopia. METHODS: This study employed the 2016 Ethiopian Demograp...
P. G. Whitehead, Sananda Sarkar, Li Jin, Martyn N. Futter et al.
This study investigates the potential impacts of future climate and socio-economic change on the flow and nitrogen fluxes of the Ganga river system. This is the first basin scale water quality study for the Ganga considering climate change at 25 km resolution together with socio-economic scenarios. ...
Louise T. Day, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Nahya Salim et al.
BACKGROUND: Progress in reducing maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths is impeded by data gaps, especially regarding coverage and quality of care in hospitals. We aimed to assess the validity of indicators of maternal and newborn health-care coverage around the time of birth in survey data an...
Louise T. Day, Georgia R. Gore‐Langton, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Omkar Basnet et al.
BACKGROUND: Countries with the highest burden of maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths often have little information on these deaths. Since over 81% of births worldwide now occur in facilities, using routine facility data could reduce this data gap. We assessed the availability, quality, and u...
Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Attila N. Lázár, Duncan Hornby et al.
Even if climate change mitigation is successful, sea levels will keep rising. With subsidence, relative sea-level rise represents a long-term threat to low-lying deltas. A large part of coastal Bangladesh was analysed using the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model to determine changes in flood de...
Susan Kay, John Caesar, Judith Wolf, Lucy Bricheno et al.
Coastal flooding due to storm surge and high tides is a serious risk for inhabitants of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta, as much of the land is close to sea level. Climate change could lead to large areas of land being subject to increased flooding, salinization and ultimate abandonment in...
Sohier Elneil, Andrew Browning
Obstetric fistulas, an abnormal communication between the vagina and the surrounding pelvic organs, were first recorded in 2050BC when they were observed in the Mummies of Ancient Egypt. Between the 17th and 19th centuries obstetric fistulas were a global problem affecting much of the United States ...
Sk Masum Billah, Tarana E. Ferdous, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Camille Raynes‐Greenow et al.
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months has established benefits, yet had slow improvements globally. Little is known about electronic job aid-assisted counselling to support EBF. As a secondary outcome of a cluster randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, we assessed the effect of el...
Attila N. Lázár, Andrés Payo, Helen Adams, Ali Ahmed et al.
A flexible meta-model, the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model (ΔDIEM), is developed to capture the socio-biophysical system of coastal Bangladesh as simply and efficiently as possible. Operating at the local scale, calculations occur efficiently using a variety of methods, including linear stat...
J. Loveday, Sonal Sachdev, Meena Cherian, Francisco Katayama et al.
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the capacity of government-run hospitals in Bangladesh to provide emergency and essential surgical, obstetric and anaesthetic services. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of 240 Bangladeshi Government healthcare facilities using the World Health Organisation Situational Analysis Too...
Ana Pilar Betrán, Maria Regina Torloni, Fernando Althabe, Elena Altieri et al.
Access to emergency obstetric care, including assisted vaginal birth and caesarean birth, is crucial for improving maternal and childbirth outcomes. However, although the proportion of births by caesarean section has increased during the last few decades, the use of assisted vaginal birth has declin...
Arjun Subramaniam
Abstract The secular, pluralistic, ethnically diverse, and vibrant democracy that India has nurtured ever since its independence in 1947 has become the envy of many radical and extremist ideologies and religions that seek to bring in order through tools of fourth generation warfare like Jihad and “P...
N Huda, John Richards, Lutfur Rahman, Shehbano Syed
OBJECTIVE: The objective is to assess the reasoning by families in deciding between a home vs. facility delivery and vaginal vs. caesarean. STUDY DESIGN: The authors selected a convenience sample of 16 villages in Sathkira district in southwest Bangladesh. Evidence was drawn from detailed in-home po...