Mark D. Ankeny, Mushtaque Ahmed, T. C. Kaspar, Robert Horton
Abstract A new method is proposed for determining in situ unsaturated hydraulic conductivities from unsaturated infiltration measurements made at several tensions on the same infiltration surface. Wooding's equation for steady‐state unconfined infiltration rates is used in calculating hydraulic cond...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
In efforts to reduce gender and socioeconomic disparities in the health of populations, the provision of medical services alone is clearly inadequate. While socioeconomic development is assumed important in rectifying gender and socioeconomic inequities in health care access, service use and ultimat...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Awlad Hossain, Ahmed Mushtaque RajaChowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh. This data is essential for developing an HRH policy and plan to meet ...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
Emma Sacks, Meike Schleiff, Miriam Were, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury et al.
can also be essential for guiding interventions aimed at behavioural modification and for facilitating adaptation to changing environmental, demographic and epidemiological conditions. ommunities can consist of a wide and diverse set of actors, from geographically defined groups and local governance...
Nancy L. Sloan, Salahuddin Ahmed, Satindra Nath Mitra, Nuzhat Choudhury et al.
OBJECTIVE: We adapted kangaroo mother care for immediate postnatal community-based application in rural Bangladesh, where the incidence of home delivery, low birth weight, and neonatal and infant mortality is high and neonatal intensive care is unavailable. This trial tested whether community-based ...
Abbas Bhuiya, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Faruque Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams
Abstract This chapter describes the separate and joint health benefits arising from a rural development program designed to promote the rights and status of poor women, and a maternal child health program in rural Bangladesh. The case study is remarkable in that the interventions have been accompani...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
This paper explores a number of socioeconomic factors thought to explain the wide prevalence of undernutrition among rural Bangladeshi women. The 1992 baseline survey data of the BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project at Matlab were used. Anthropometry was performed on a random sub-sample of 1462 curre...
Saira Parveen Jolly, Mahfuzar Rahman, Kaosar Afsana, Fakir Md Yunus et al.
BACKGROUND: A continuous influx of poor people to urban slums poses a challenge to Bangladesh's health system as it has failed to tackle maternal morbidity and mortality. BRAC is the largest non-governmental organisation in Bangladesh. BRAC has been working to reduce maternal, neonatal and under-fiv...
Nuzhat Choudhury, Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Sabiha Sultana, Zeba Mahmud et al.
Globally, undernutrition affects nearly half of all children aged less than 5 years. It is more prominent in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the age-specific risk factors for different categories of undernutrition among Bangladeshi children aged less than 2 years. Data...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Avni Rana, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
This study explored the usefulness of a generic health assessment tool SF-36 in measuring perceived health outcomes in a developing-country setting. The adapted Bangla version was administered in 10 villages of Matlab sub-district in Bangladesh during second half of 1999. Respondents included curren...
Saima Mollick, Tumpa Dasgupta, Md Saquib Hasnain, Mushtaque Ahmed
The aim and objectives of this study were to determine the etiological pathogens of the Urinary Tract Infection and to determine their antibiotic sensitivity pattern in Bangladesh. This study was carried out on clinically suspected UTI patient in a Private Diagnostic Centre, Bangladesh from May 2015...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Marta Szebehely, Carol Tishelman, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury et al.
Sanjida Khondakar Setu, Abu Naser Ibne Sattar, Ahmed Abu Saleh, Chandan Kumar Roy et al.
Analyzing antibiotic susceptibility pattern of uropathogens help to overcome the therapeutic difficulties created by the rising antimicrobial resistant bacteria and guides in choosing appropriate antibiotics. Hence, we aimed at evaluating the pathogens causing UTI and study their antibiogram. Midstr...
Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Fazlul Karim, Jürgen Rohde, Junaid Ahmed et al.
Sugar-based oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhoea is promoted in many countries of the world. One programme in Bangladesh has instructed more than 13 million mothers in the preparation of a sugar-salt solution in the home; despite very high rates of correct mixing and knowledge, subsequent ap...