Ashraf Dewan, Robert J. Corner, Masahiro Hashizume, Emmanuel T. Ongee
Typhoid fever is a major cause of death worldwide with a major part of the disease burden in developing regions such as the Indian sub-continent. Bangladesh is part of this highly endemic region, yet little is known about the spatial and temporal distribution of the disease at a regional scale. This...
Jean‐Marc Mac‐Thiong, Ensor E. Transfeldt, Amir A. Mehbod, Joseph H. Perra et al.
STUDY DESIGN: This study prospectively evaluated the health related quality of life (HRQOL) of 73 adults presenting with scoliosis at a single institution, as related to their spinal (C7 plumbline) and global (gravity line) balance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the influence of sagittal and coronal balance ...
Ashraf Dewan, Robert J. Corner, A. Saleem, Md. Masudur Rahman et al.
Linda C. Roberts, Stephan J. Hug, Jessica Dittmar, Andreas Voegelin et al.
Around 38% of the area of Bangladesh is irrigated with groundwater to grow dry season crops, most importantly boro rice. Due to high As concentrations in many groundwaters, over 1000 tons of As are thus transferred to arable soils each year, creating a potential risk for future food production. We s...
Akiko Masuya, Ashraf Dewan, Robert J. Corner
Robert J. Corner, Ashraf Dewan, Masahiro Hashizume
BACKGROUND: Developing countries in South Asia, such as Bangladesh, bear a disproportionate burden of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid. These seem to be aggravated by a number of social and environmental factors such as lack of access to safe drinking water, overcrowdedne...
Yoonjoung Choi, Shams El Arifeen, Ishtiaq Mannan, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman et al.
Objectives To validate maternal recognition of neonatal illnesses at home compared to assessment by community health workers (CHWs) during routine household surveillance for neonatal illness in rural Bangladesh. Methods Surveillance in the intervention arm of two cluster-randomized, controlled trial...
Ashraf Dewan, Robert J. Corner
This paper investigates the relationship between land use / land cover in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. Significant differences were noted between the mean surface temperatures between land cover types. In addition the rapid urbanization of the megacity has been mapped, with the urban area expan...
Tinsae Alemayehu, Benson Oguttu, Charles E. Rupprecht, Vettakkara Kandy Muhammed Niyas
Human rabies (Sanskrit "rabhas", to do violence; Latin "rabere", to rage) is an ancient scourge which claims the lives of tens of thousands of people per year worldwide. Numbers of clinical cases and deaths are grossly under-reported due to diagnostic limitations in low-and middle-income countries (...
Simon Tiberi, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Jeremiah Chakaya, Tereza Kaesava et al.
World TB Day falls on March 24th each year, and it commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (WHO, 2020aWHO World tuberculosis day.2020https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/03/24/defaul...
John Echeverri‐Gent
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The author wishes to express special appreciation to Ajay Shah and Susan Thomas for their gracious help and in some cases co-participation in fieldwork, as well as for their generous sharing of their ideas about India's equity markets. A...
Ashraf Dewan, Masahiro Hashizume, Md. Masudur Rahman, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah et al.
Manisha Patel, Adria D. Lee, Nakia Clemmons, Susan B. Redd et al.
This report summarizes the cases of measles reported since January 2019 and identifies the types of communities at high risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. This report summarizes the cases of measles reported since January 2019 and identifies the types of communities at high risk for...
Peter Wänke, Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Yong Tan, Roberto da Costa Pimenta
Abstract The Healthcare sector is increasing in importance and relative size in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Despite BRICS relevance, the financial performance of their healthcare companies has been scarcely studied. This research fills this literature gap not only b...
Arthur G. Rubinoff
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes (t) = tied with school listed above it. Thus, in the US News rankings, Chicago and Iowa are tied with Stony Brook. I am grateful to Dinshaw Mistry and Kailan Rubunoff for their comments on earlier drafts of their paper. 1. Harold R. Isaa...