Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana et al.
INTRODUCTION: Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been recommended to mitigate such burdens for households in Bangladesh. About 88% of the population of Bangladesh depends on work in ...
Elizabeth Goodburn, Rukhsana Gazi, Mushtaque Chowdhury
Most maternal deaths occur in the puerperium and most maternal morbidities probably also arise at that time. Maternal morbidities occur much more frequently than maternal deaths, but very little is known about their magnitude or causes. This study uses focus-group discussions to explore the experien...
Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Rukhsana Gazi, Shahed Hossain, Khalequz Zaman
BACKGROUND: Social franchising has developed as a possible means of improving provision of health services through engaging the non-state sector in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES: To examine the evidence that social franchising has on access to and quality of health services in low- an...
Tanzir Ahmed Shuvo, Rubana Islam, S. Rafsana Hossain, Julie Evans et al.
Background: In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), health system challenges relating to weak governance, health workforce shortages, and geographic and economic barriers to care impede effective delivery of health services to those in need. The rapid development of information and communi...
Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Jahangir Khan, Shahed SA Hossain, Rukhsana Gazi et al.
BACKGROUND: Economic evaluation is used for effective resource allocation in health sector. Accumulated knowledge about economic evaluation of health programs in Bangladesh is not currently available. While a number of economic evaluation studies have been performed in Bangladesh, no systematic inve...
Siddarth David, Rukhsana Gazi, Mohammed Shafiq Mirzazada, Chesmal Siriwardhana et al.
Improving access to healthcare, preventing gender based violence, and providing mental health services are essential to improve the health of people affected by conflict in South Asia, argue <b>Siddarth David and colleagues</b>
Quamrun Nahar, C Tunon, Irit Houvras, Rukhsana Gazi et al.
This community-based cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in 3 rural and 2 urban areas of Bangladesh using the Operations Research Project surveillance system. The study examines the reproductive health needs of adolescents in Bangladesh. Employing qualitative and quantitative data co...
MG Sarowar, Emma Medin, Rukhsana Gazi, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos et al.
Calculation of costs of different medical and surgical services has numerous uses, which include monitoring the performance of service-delivery, setting the efficiency target, benchmarking of services across all sectors, considering investment decisions, commissioning to meet health needs, and negot...
Humayun Kabir, Nirod Chandra Saha, Andrea L. Wirtz, Rukhsana Gazi
PURPOSE: The reproductive health needs of unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh are largely unmet. This study aimed to explore treatment-seeking behaviour of unmarried female adolescents for selected reproductive health (RH) concerns in two low-performing areas of Bangladesh. METHODS: As part of a lar...
Md. Abdul Quaiyum, Rukhsana Gazi, Azharul Islam Khan, Jasim Uddin et al.
The present study investigated prospectively programmatic factors relating to dropouts in child vaccination in 6 subdistricts of Bangladesh. A cross-sectional survey (n = 2700) was conducted estimating overall coverage of immunization using cluster sampling. The eligible subsample of children (n = 1...
Humayun Kabir, Nirod Chandra Saha, Elizabeth Oliveras, Rukhsana Gazi
OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to identify selected programmatic factors relating to low contraceptive-use in a low-performing rural sub-district in Sylhet division of Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 6983 currently-married women of reproductive age (MWRA) (15-...
Rukhsana Gazi, Alec Mercer, Tanyaporn Wansom, Humayun Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Mobile population groups are at high risk for contracting HIV infection. Many factors contribute to this risk including high prevalence of risky behavior and increased risk of violence due to conflict and war. The Naf River serves as the primary border crossing point between Teknaf, Bang...
Rukhsana Gazi, Ziaul Haque Chowdhury, S.M. Nurul Alam, Elma Chowdhury et al.
Haribondhu Sarma, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2007, the Government of Bangladesh incorporated a chapter on HIV/AIDS into the national curriculum for an HIV-prevention program for school students. For the efficient dissemination of knowledge, an intervention was designed to train the teachers and equip them to educate on the topic...
Haribondhu Sarma, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Rukhsana Gazi
BACKGROUND: Considering the significant impact of school-based HIV/AIDS education, in 2007, a curriculum on HIV/AIDS was incorporated in the national curriculum for high school students of Bangladesh through the Government's HIV-prevention program. Based on the curriculum, an intervention was design...