Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei, Leanne M Riley et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHOD...
Stephen P. Luby, Mahbubur Rahman, Benjamin F. Arnold, Leanne Unicomb et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea and growth faltering in early childhood are associated with subsequent adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess whether water quality, sanitation, and handwashing interventions alone or combined with nutrition interventions reduced diarrhoea or growth faltering. METHODS: The WASH B...
Spencer L James, Lydia R Lucchesi, Catherine Bisignano, Chris D Castle et al.
BACKGROUND: The global burden of road injuries is known to follow complex geographical, temporal and demographic patterns. While health loss from road injuries is a major topic of global importance, there has been no recent comprehensive assessment that includes estimates for every age group, sex an...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Naser Ahmed
Drought is a damaging and costly natural disaster that frequently affects many climatic regions in the world. A multi-criteria-based approach for integrated spatial drought vulnerability mapping that combines all drought categories is required to generate detailed vulnerability information for formu...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Saima Tasfia, Naser Ahmed, Biswajeet Pradhan
Floods are common natural disasters worldwide, frequently causing loss of lives and huge economic and environmental damages. A spatial vulnerability mapping approach incorporating multi-criteria at the local scale is essential for deriving detailed vulnerability information for supporting flood miti...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Naser Ahmed, Sanjoy Roy
Tropical cyclones frequently affect millions of people, damaging properties, livelihoods and environments in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The intensity and extent of tropical cyclones and their impacts are likely to increase in the future due to climate change. The eastern coastal region of Ban...
Francesco Goletti, Raisuddin Ahmed, Naser Farid
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Naser Ahmed, Biswajeet Pradhan, Sanjoy Roy
The eastern coastal region of Bangladesh, which has a 377 km-long coastline, is highly vulnerable to multi-hazardous events, such as tropical cyclones, coastal floods, coastal erosion and salinity intrusion. The vulnerability of this coastal region is likely to increase under the future climate chan...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Naser Ahmed, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel
Droughts are recurring events in Australia and cause a severe effect on agricultural and water resources. However, the studies about agricultural drought risk mapping are very limited in Australia. Therefore, a comprehensive agricultural drought risk assessment approach that incorporates all the ris...
Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, James Newell, Jalal Ahmed, M. K. A. Hyder et al.
This study analyzes the basic concepts and key issues of existing collaboration between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in health care, using as an example the implementation of the DOTS (formerly an abbreviation for directly observed treatment, short course) strategy for tuberc...
Naser Ahmed, Newton Howlader, Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan
Coastal zones are physically, socially, and economically important. However, many coastal zones are highly vulnerable to coastal erosion due to high population density, tourist attractions, developed economy, and lowland. Erosion vulnerability assessment with limited criteria and components cannot p...
Riffat Mahmood, Naser Ahmed, Li Zhang, Guoqing Li
Bangladesh is one of the most geomorphologically active countries situated within the World's largest basin of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM). The physiographic settings of the southward coastal areas of Bangladesh is completely exposed to the sea posing vulnerability to natural hazards whereas...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Naser Ahmed, Bayes Ahmed et al.
Coastal Bangladesh is one of the hotspots of tropical cyclone’s landfall in South Asia. A spatial vulnerability assessment is required to formulate disaster risk reduction strategies. This study develops a comprehensive tropical cyclone vulnerability mapping approach by applying Fuzzy Analytical Hie...
Naser Ahmed, Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Alireza Arabameri
Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Sumit Chakma, Wasif Ali Khan, Gregory E. Glass et al.
BACKGROUND: Historically, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh was considered hyperendemic for malaria. To better understand the contemporary malaria epidemiology and to develop new and innovative control strategies, comprehensive epidemiologic studies are ongoing in two endemic unions of ...