Olakunle Alonge, Priyanka Agrawal, Abu Talab, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: 90% of the global burden of injuries is borne by low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, details of the injury burden in LMICs are less clear because of the scarcity of data and population-based studies. The Saving of Lives from Drowning project, implemented in rural Ban...
Shumona Sharmin Salam, Olakunle Alonge, Md Irteja Islam, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
The aim of the paper is to quantify the burden and risk factors of fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviors in rural Bangladesh. A census was carried out in seven sub-districts encompassing 1.16 million people. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at the household level. Descriptive analyses were do...
Aminur Rahman, Olakunle Alonge, Al-Amin Bhuiyan, Priyanka Agrawal et al.
Over one-quarter of deaths among 1-4 year-olds in Bangladesh were due to drowning in 2003, and the proportion increased to 42% in 2011. This study describes the current burden and risk factors for drowning across all demographics in rural Bangladesh. A household survey was carried out in 51 union pa...
Anna Kalbarczyk, Daniela Rodríguez, Yodi Mahendradhata, Malabika Sarker et al.
The barriers and facilitators of conducting knowledge translation (KT) activities are well-established but less is known about the institutional forces that drive these barriers, particularly in low resource settings. Understanding organizational readiness has been used to assess and address such ba...
Sophia M. Bartels, Shabab Haider, Caitlin R. Williams, Yameen Mazumder et al.
<h3>Key Messages</h3> As part of the greater movement to decolonize global health, leadership in implementation science needs to diversify to increase the influence of researchers and practitioners from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to accelerate the development of implementation rese...
Siran He, Olakunle Alonge, Priyanka Agrawal, Shumona Sharmin et al.
Each year, approximately 265,000 deaths occur due to burns on a global scale. In Bangladesh, around 173,000 children under 18 sustain a burn injury. Since most epidemiological studies on burn injuries in low and middle-income countries are based on small-scale surveys or hospital records, this study...
Kamran Ul Baset, Aminur Rahman, Olakunle Alonge, Priyanka Agrawal et al.
Globally, road traffic injury (RTI) causes 1.3 million deaths annually. Almost 90% of all RTI deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. RTI is one of the leading causes of death in Bangladesh; the World Health Organization estimated that it kills over 21,000 people in the country annually. T...
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Md Irteja Islam, Shumona Sharmin Salam, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman et al.
Non-fatal injuries have a significant impact on disability, productivity, and economic cost, and first-aid can play an important role in improving non-fatal injury outcomes. Data collected from a census conducted as part of a drowning prevention project in Bangladesh was used to quantify the impact ...
Shirin Wadhwaniya, Olakunle Alonge, Kamran Ul Baset, Salim Mahmud Chowdhury et al.
Globally, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths, with 80% occurring in low-and middle-income countries. The overall objective of this study is to describe the burden and risk factors of falls in rural Bangladesh. In 2013, a large household survey covering a population of ...
Olakunle Alonge, Abigail H Neel, Anna Kalbarczyk, Michael A. Peters et al.
BACKGROUND: Lessons from polio eradication efforts and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) are useful for improving health service delivery and outcomes globally. The Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovations from Polio Eradication (STRIPE) is a multi-phase project which aims ...
Adnan A. Hyder, Olakunle Alonge, Siran He, Shirin Wadhwaniya et al.
Khaula Khatlani, Olakunle Alonge, Aminur Rahman, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
Unintentional injury-related mortality rate, including drowning among children under five, is disproportionately higher in low- and middle-income countries. The evidence links lapse of supervision with childhood unintentional injury deaths. We determined the relationship between caregiver supervisio...
Adnan A. Hyder, Olakunle Alonge, Siran He, Shirin Wadhwaniya et al.
Drowning is the commonest cause of injury-related deaths among under-five children worldwide, and 95% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where there are implementation gaps in the drowning prevention interventions. This article reviews common interventions for drowning preve...
Olakunle Alonge, David Bishai, Shirin Wadhwaniya, Priyanka Agrawal et al.
BACKGROUND: This paper estimates the impact on childhood drowning rates of community-based introduction of crèches or playpens or both in rural Bangladesh for children aged 0-47 months. METHODS: A baseline census of the whole population of 270,387 households in 51 unions, 451 villages from 7 rural s...
Al-Amin Bhuiyan, Priyanka Agrawal, Shirin Wadhwaniya, Qingfeng Li et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study determines the magnitude and pattern of animal-related injury mortalities and morbidities in rural Bangladesh. DESIGN AND SETTING: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 51 Unions of 7 subdistricts of Bangladesh from June 2013 to September 2013. PARTICIPANTS: A total of appr...