Raaj Kishore Biswas, Nusma Rahman, Enamul Kabir, Farabi Raihan
Bangladesh is a culturally conservative nation with limited freedom for women. A number of studies have evaluated intimate partner violence (IPV) and spousal physical violence in Bangladesh; however, the views of women have been rarely discussed in a quantitative manner. Three nationwide surveys in ...
Anowara Rayhan Arusha, Raaj Kishore Biswas
Highlights • Factors of examination pressure of Bangladeshi tertiary level students are hardly researched.• Stress, anxiety and depression was evaluated using DASS-21 for 210 youths aged between 17–25 years.• The significant contributors are living with family, family time, sleeping pattern and diet...
Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Mulu Abraha Woldegiorgis
OBJECTIVES Antenatal care (ANC) during pregnancy and skilled birth attendance (SBA) during delivery are important policy concerns to reduce maternal deaths. Bangladesh is one of the developing countries which has made remarkable progress in both services during the last couple of decades by improvin...
Md Irteja Islam, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Rasheda Khanam
This study examined the association of internet use, and electronic game-play with academic performance respectively on weekdays and weekends in Australian children. It also assessed whether addiction tendency to internet and game-play is associated with academic performance. Overall, 1704 children ...
Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Nurjahan Ananna
OBJECTIVE: The objective of Sustainable Development Goal 3.1 is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. One of the indicators for this objective is the proportion of births attended by skilled health attendants (SBA). This study assessed the prog...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Awan Afiaz, Samin Huq
COVID-19 has spread across the globe with higher burden placed in Europe and North America. However, the rate of transmission has recently picked up in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in the Indian subcontinent. There is a severe underreporting bias in the existing data available from...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Samin Huq, Awan Afiaz, Hafiz T. A. Khan
RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has overpowered the most advanced health systems worldwide with thousands of daily deaths. The current study conducted a situation analysis on the pandemic preparedness of Bangladesh and provided recommendations on the transition to the ...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Enamul Kabir, Hafiz T. A. Khan
Awan Afiaz, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Raisa Shamma, Nurjahan Ananna
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a social problem in Bangladesh with adverse effects on maternal healthcare. This study analyzed the sociodemographic factors responsible for intimate partner violence and its overall association with reproductive healthcare-specifically miscarriages, stillbirths an...
Jahar Bhowmik, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Sorif Hossain
The persistently high prevalence of girl-child marriage and adolescent motherhood is a public health concern in Bangladesh. This study investigated the division-wise prevalence and the influence of education and religious affiliation on child marriage and adolescent motherhood among women in Banglad...
Ozren Polašek, Kerri Wazny, Davies Adeloye, Peige Song et al.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to the functioning of societies and their health systems. Prior to the pandemic, health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were particularly stretched and vulnerable. The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) sought to...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Enamul Kabir
A complicating factor for child marriage in Bangladesh is age heaping or digital preference, where young girls misreport their age, claiming to be older or younger than they are. Analysis based on four nationally representative cross-sectional surveys over the last 10 years has shown that the age ad...
Sorif Hossain, Promit Barua Chowdhury, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Md Amir Hossain
This study investigated the factors associated with the prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 years in Bangladesh. A child’s nutritional status was evaluated using stunting, wasting, underweight, and overweight. The association between sociodemographic factors and nutritional status was ...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Enamul Kabir
OBJECTIVE: This paper reflected on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in Bangladesh, which is spreading rapidly in low-income countries. The rationale of constructing more health centers for addressing NCDs was assessed in this paper by determining the relationship between prevalence of NCD...
Samin Huq, Raaj Kishore Biswas
www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.010342 1 June 2020 • Vol. 10 No. 1 • 010342 Lower middle-income countries are not heavily presented in global media on COVID-19. Bangladesh, a densely populated nation, have conducted only 1759 tests in last one month with 9 reported deaths. The decisions of clust...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Nusma Rahman, Rasheda Khanam, Abdullah H Baqui et al.
OBJECTIVE: Bangladesh, like many emerging economies of South-East Asia, has started to experience a double burden of continuing high rates of undernutrition and increasing rates of overweight and obesity. A lack of assessment of the nutritional shift leaves a gap in current policies: the growing ove...
Awan Afiaz, Raaj Kishore Biswas
OBJECTIVES: Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) has become a growing public health concern in many low-income and middle-income nations for its association with several health risks. This study observed types of menstrual absorbents used among women in Bangladesh and analysed the associated sociodemo...
Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Raaj Kishore Biswas, Atique Iqbal Chowdhury, Sk Masum Billah
Soil salinization is a major problem for low-elevation countries like Bangladesh and is expected to worsen due to global warming and associated sea level rise. A constant monitoring of salinity affected areas is imperative to prevent land degradation, agricultural and livelihood losses. With this ai...
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Samin Huq, Awan Afiaz
*Correspondence to: Raaj Kishore Biswas, Email: RaajKishore.Biswas@ student.unsw.edu.au Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons....
Raaj Kishore Biswas, Enamul Kabir, Rachel King
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a much researched topic in medical health, which requires additional studies to understand various effects of demographic and geographic factors that can assist in developing the most effective treatments. Thousands of people of different ages are sufferin...