Surovi Kabir, Abdul Kaium, Md. Tazul Islam Chowdhury, Mohammed Ariful Islam et al.
The current study focused on quantifying hazardous heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Ni, and Zn) in soil-rice systems near the Buriganga River in Bangladesh to assess their impact on human health and the environment. The mean concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Zn in soil exceeded FAO/WHO acceptable l...
Md. Mostafa Monwar, Md. Golam Mustafa, Niaz Ahmed Khan, M. Shahadat Hossain et al.
Victoria Miller, Lavanya Nambiar, Malvika Saxena, Darryl P. Leong et al.
BACKGROUND: Health-system barriers and facilitators associated with cardiovascular medication adherence have seldom been studied, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where uptake rates are poorest. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to explore the major obstacles and facilitators to the use ...
Mahbuba Nasreen, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan
Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal, Tonmoy Sarkar, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Sajal K. Roy et al.
The COVID-19 vaccine has been made available for emergency use in Bangladesh. However, willingness to receive the vaccine may be affected by varying factors across the country. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the factors that influence willingness to receive the vaccine among Bangladeshi ...
Abul Kalam Azad, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan
Bangladesh is experiencing with frequent natural disasters due to her unique geographical characteristics. In this regard the aim of the study is to examine how a natural catastrophe creates social pathologies or social crises in the society and to identify the major causes of social pathology by em...
Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, M. Golam Mahboob, AFM Tariqul Islam, Mohammed Mainuddin et al.
This paper develops a methodology to map the two main rice types in northwest Bangladesh from 1989 to 2016, when Green Revolution technologies and policies resulted in a 300% rice area expansion and localised unsustainable groundwater use. The mapping is performed for the largely irrigated dry seaso...
Anna Williams, Marufa Aziz Khan, Mohammed Moniruzzaman, Sk Towhidur Rahaman et al.
INTRODUCTION: Eclampsia-related conditions are the second leading direct cause of obstetric deaths in Bangladesh. Efforts to prevent such deaths in low- and middle-income countries are increasingly focused on task shifting at the primary care level to enable frontline providers to screen and initiat...
Asha Khatun, MINHAJ AHMAD KHAN, M. A. Rahman, Mousumi Akter et al.
Ethnomedicinal surveys were conducted among three folk medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes) of two villages (Tangramari and Kutubpur) in Chuadanga district and one folk medicinal practitioner of Benepara village in Jhenaidah district of Bangladesh. The three Kavirajes of Chuadanga district were obser...
Abid Hasan, M. S. H. Shaown, R. J. Ripa, Asha Khatun et al.
An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out among the folk medicinal practitioners of two villages, namely Dharail and Aladi in Natore district of Bangladesh. The four practitioners interviewed in the survey used a total of 26 medicinal plants distributed into 19 families for treatment of various ailme...
Masum Howlader, Shah Newaz Alam Shuvo, Abu Selim, Md. Monirul Islam et al.
Mahbuba Nasreen, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh (hereinafter Bangladesh) is one of the largest deltas in the world and is geographically highly vulnerable to disasters. The land area of this country is 147,750 square km consisting almost 80 percent of floodplains. Only 13 percent of its territory, in the north ...
Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan
SM Mazharul Islam, Mohammed Emran, Aparajeya Bivab Bikash Baral, Bijoya Dey Happy et al.
Background: Low back pain (LBP) has been identified as one of the most frequent, disabling and costly condition which create a significant clinical and socioeconomic burden on national economy. The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ)is one of the most commonly used outcome measures in pati...
A.M.M. Maruf Hossain, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Zawad Ibn Farid
Abstract This study investigates the factors influencing women’s agency and adaptive capacity in response to climate change in the coastal union of Sarankhola, Bangladesh. Drawing on 27 community case studies from 162 individuals in group surveys, it applies a five-step fuzzy-set Qualitative Compara...