Zunaid Ahsan Karar, Nurul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield
BACKGROUND: For understanding epidemiological transition, Health and Demographic Surveillance System plays an important role in developing and resource-constraint setup where accurate information on vital events (e.g. births, deaths) and cause of death is not available. METHODS: This study aimed to ...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Zunaid Ahsan Karar
Bangladesh currently has a population approaching 150 million and will add another 100 million before stabilizing, unless fertility can soon drop below replacement level. This level of fertility decline will require a change in marriage patterns, which have been minimal so far, even with increasing ...
Shams El Arifeen, Kenneth Hill, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil et al.
Background Bangladesh is one of the only nine Countdown countries that are on track to achieve the primary target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015. It is also the only low-income or middle-income country with two large, nationally-representative, high-quality household surveys focused ...
Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Shams El Arifeen, Md. Abdullah Al-Mamun, Shusmita Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh urban population is expected to overtake rural population by 2040, and a significant part of the increase will be in slums. Wide disparities between urban slums and the rest of the country can potentially push country indicators off track unless the specific health and nutriti...
Allisyn C. Moran, Nuzhat Choudhury, Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Zunaid Ahsan Karar et al.
BACKGROUND: Urbanization is occurring at a rapid pace, especially in low-income countries. Dhaka, Bangladesh, is estimated to grow to 50 million by 2015, with 21 million living in urban slums. Although health services are available, neonatal mortality is higher in slum areas than in urban non-slum a...
Nuzhat Choudhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Ashraful Alam, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
BACKGROUND: Worldwide urbanization has become a crucial issue in recent years. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely-populated countries in the world, has been facing rapid urbanization. In urban areas, maternal indicators are generally worse in the slums than in the urban non-slum areas. ...
Afrin Iqbal, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil, M Moinuddin Haider et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is well advanced in the epidemiologic transition from communicable to noncommunicable diseases, which now account for two out of three deaths annually. This paper examines the latest nationally representative hypertension prevalence estimates, awareness, treatment, and control...
Gustavo Ángeles, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Peter Kim Streatfield, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Bangladesh is undergoing a rapid urbanization process. About one-third of the population of major cities in the country live in slums, which are areas that exhibit pronounced concentrations of factors that negatively affect health and nutrition. People living in slums face greater challenge to impro...
Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Peter Kim Streatfield, Rashida E. Ijdi, Gabriela Maria Escudero et al.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh embarked on a sector-wide approach (SWAp) modality for the health, nutrition and population (HNP) sector in 1998. This programmatic shift initiated a different set of planning disciplines and practices along with insti...
Abdur Razzaque, Lutfun Nahar, Abu Haider Mohammad Golam Mustafa, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
The study examined noncommunicable diseases risk factors among adults 25 to 64 years old of the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System using World Health Organization STEP-wise methodology. The prevalence of smoking was found to be very high for males (53.9%) and it increased initially wi...
M. Mahmud Khan, David R. Hotchkiss, Tania Dmytraczenko, Karar Zunaid Ahsan
This paper illustrates the importance of collecting facility-based data through regular surveys to supplement the administrative data, especially for developing countries of the world. In Bangladesh, measures based on facility survey indicate that only 70% of very basic medical instruments and 35% o...
Sameh El-Saharty, Susan Sparkes, Hélène Barroy, Karar Zunaid Ahsan et al.
Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2032; to this end, the government of Bangladesh is exploring policy options to increase fiscal space for health and expand coverage while improving service quality and availability. Despite Bangladesh’s impressive strides in imp...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Nahid Kamal, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Quamrun Nahar
Using Matlab demographic surveillance data (HDSS), we assess if misreporting of age at marriage could be contributing to the apparent persistence of early marriage in Bangladesh. A random sample of 1766 women aged 15–29 born in HDSS area was selected. Almost two-thirds misreported their age at marri...
Sameh El-Saharty, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Michael M. Engelgau
No AccessDirections in Development - Human Development13 Oct 2013Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in Bangladesh: Now Is the TimeAuthors/Editors: Sameh El-Saharty, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Tarcey L. P. Koehlmoos, Michael M. EngelgauSameh El-Saharty, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Tarcey L. P. Koehlmoos, Michael M. ...
Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Afrin Iqbal, Kanta Jamil, M Moinuddin Haider et al.
BACKGROUND: Diabetes, one of the major metabolic disorders, is rising in Bangladesh. Studies indicate there is inequality in prevalence and care-seeking behavior, which requires further exploration to understand the socioeconomic disparities in the pathophysiology of diabetes. This study examined th...