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 ...
Marge Koblinsky, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Carine Ronsmans
Not available DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jhpn.v30i2.11294 J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2012 Jun;30(2):124-130
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Roslin Botlero, Marge Koblinsky, Sajal Saha et al.
Background Research on the effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality is scarce. We aimed to assess the contribution of intervention strategies, such as skilled attendance at birth, to the recorded reduction in maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh. We examined and compared trends i...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta, Anisuddin Ahmed et al.
Background The effect of a parent's death on the survival of the children has been assessed in only a few studies. We therefore investigated the effect of the death of the mother or father on the survival of the child up to age 10 years in rural Bangladesh. Methods We used data from population surve...
Marge Koblinsky, Iqbal Anwar, Malay Kanti Mridha, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury et al.
Bangladesh is on its way to achieving the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, but the annual rate of decline needs to triple. Although the use of skilled birth attendants has improved over the past 15 years, it remains less than 20% as of 20...
Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa, Mark Newman, Kawkab Mahmud, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is a highly populous country with three-quarters rural population. Pressing national shortages in health professionals has resulted in high vacancy rates in rural areas. These are compounded by excessive absenteeism and low retention among nurses and doctors posted to rural lo...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Carine Ronsmans, Japhet Killewo, Iqbal Anwar et al.
Background Few studies have assessed whether the poorest people in developing countries benefit from giving birth at home rather than in a facility. We analysed whether socioeconomic status results in differences in the use of professional midwives at home and in a basic obstetric facility in a rura...
Tasnim Azim, Sharful Islam Khan, Fariha Haseen, Nafisa Lira Huq et al.
Bangladesh initiated an early response to the HIV epidemic starting in the mid-1980s. Since then, the res-ponse has been enhanced considerably, and many HIV-prevention interventions among the most at-risk populations and the general youth are being undertaken. Alongside prevention activities, gather...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Anisuddin Ahmed, Nahid Kalim, Marge Koblinsky
Bangladesh is distinct among developing countries in achieving a low maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 322 per 100,000 livebirths despite the very low use of skilled care at delivery (13% nationally). This variation has also been observed in Matlab, a rural area in Bangladesh, where longitudinal dat...
Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Mohammad Yunus, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic in drinking water was associated with increased risk of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular death in adults. However, the extent to which exposure is related to all-cause and deaths from cancer and cardiovascular condition in young age is unknown. Therefore, we prospectively as...
Hussain Yusuf, Halida H. Akhter, Hafizur Rahman, Mahbub-E-Elahi K Chowdhury et al.
Background Few studies have examined injury-related deaths among women in Bangladesh. We did a case-finding study to identify causes and the impact of intentional and unintentional injury-related deaths among women aged 10-50 years in Bangladesh. Methods Between 1996 and 1997, health care and other ...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Marge Koblinsky, Anisuddin Ahmed
OBJECTIVE: To examine the nature of the relationship between the use of skilled attendance around the time of delivery and maternal and perinatal mortality. METHODS: We analysed health and demographic surveillance system data collected between 1987 and 2005 by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Nurul Alam, Marge Koblinsky et al.
Trends were examined in a cohort study of stillbirths and early and late neonatal deaths in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh between 1975 and 2002, using routinely collected demographic surveillance data. Main outcome measures were stillbirths per 1000 births, early neonatal deaths per 1000 livebi...
Kazi Rafiq, Md Rafiqul Islam, Nure Alam Siddiky, Mohammed A. Samad et al.
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) foodborne pathogens have created a great challenge to the supply and consumption of safe & healthy animal-source foods. The study was conducted to identify the common foodborne pathogens from animal-source foods & by-products with their antimicrobial drug susceptibility and...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Halida H. Akhter, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Alan Geater
Bangladesh has a neonatal death rate that is substantially high and demands urgent attention. To assess the causes of neonatal mortality, 1,019 pregnant women were followed up in eight randomly-selected rural areas of the country. Trained female interviewers visited the households of the subjects at...