Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Waziul Alam Chowdhury, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature ...
Mohammad Didar Hossain, Afzal Aftab, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, Ilias Mahmud et al.
Work related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) are one of the most common occupational diseases which mainly affects the lower back, neck and upper and lower extremities. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of WMSDs in nine body regions among Ready Made Garment (RMG) workers in Banglad...
Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, MM Jalal Uddin, Waziul Alam Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders. The prevalence of ASD in many South Asian countries is still unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review available epidemiological studies of ASD in this region to identify gaps in our cu...
Md. Bodrud-Doza, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Tanjena Rume, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
Accessing safe drinking water is an essential and primary human needs. This study conducted to investigate the suitability of groundwater use in Dhaka City dwellers, factors affecting groundwater quality, and human health risk to initiate the control measures. In this regards, groundwater samples we...
M. Z. Hoque, Fahmida Akter, Kamal Hossain, Mohammad Shahedur Rahman et al.
Yoghurt is a potential source of probiotic lactobacilli. In the present study, Lactobacillus spp. were isolated from two regional yoghurts in Bangladesh, which were identified on the basis of their colony morphologies and some biochemical tests. It was observed that isolated Lactobacillus spp. were ...
S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan
Hsiao‐Han Chang, Amy Wesolowski, Ipsita Sinha, Christopher G. Jacob et al.
For countries aiming for malaria elimination, travel of infected individuals between endemic areas undermines local interventions. Quantifying parasite importation has therefore become a priority for national control programs. We analyzed epidemiological surveillance data, travel surveys, parasite g...
Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Gausul Azam
Riverbank erosion has both direct and indirect effects on human life and socio-economy of Bangladesh. The present study investigated the riverbank erosion hazard in study area, its impacts on local people and livelihood vulnerability due to land loss. To evaluate the riverbank erosion hazard in the ...
Nazmun Nahar Nuri, Malabika Sarker, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Didar Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Health systems in Bangladesh are not fully organized to provide optimal care services to patients with mental health problems. There is both a lack of resources and a disproportional distribution of the available resources. To design an equitable health system and plan interventions to i...
Md. Bodrud-Doza, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, M. Safiur Rahman et al.
GIS and multivariate statistics along with the geochemical approaches were applied in this study to investigate the hydrogeochemical behavior, source apportionment of groundwater pollutants and their spatial distribution in the aquifer system of Dhaka City, Bangladesh. A total of 33 groundwater samp...
S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan
Bangladesh is one of the major shrimp-producing countries in the world. It is blessing with an advantageous natural setting for shrimp farming and contributes the national economy of Bangladesh since mid-1980s. Although shrimp culture provides millions of employment and has profits about US$ 450 mil...
S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Tanjena Rume, Gausul Azam
Groundwater acts as a lifeline in the coastal regions to meet out the domestic, drinking, irrigational and industrial needs. To investigate the hydrogeochemical characteristics of groundwater and its suitability, twenty samples were collected from the shallow tubewells of study area having screen de...
Md. Jakariya, Firoz Ahmed, Md. Aminul Islam, Abdullah Al Marzan et al.
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable approach for forecasting disease outbreaks in developed countries with a centralized sewage infrastructure. On the other hand, due to the absence of well-defined and systematic sewage networks, WBE is challenging to implement in developin...
Gausul Azam, Mohammad Emadul Huda, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, Mohammad Mohinuzzaman et al.
Md. Bodrud-Doza, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
Due to over-exploitation and unsustainable groundwater resource management, Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh has posed an alarming risk of elimination in terms of quantity and its quality. Therefore, this study intended to evaluate the threat of groundwater contamination by geostatistical approa...