Russell Kabir, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Emma Ball, Kay Caldwell
Bangladesh is considered one of the countries most at risk to the effects of climate change and its coastal area is most vulnerable. This study tries to explore the experiences of cyclones Sidr and Aila affected people living in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. This study was conducted in the cyclon...
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Md Ashraful Alam, Mondira Bardhan, Asma Safia Disha et al.
Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is critical for controlling the pandemic. Despite the development of safe and efficacious vaccinations, low-and lower-middle income countries (LMICs) continue to encounter barriers to care owing to inequitable access and vaccine apprehension. This study aimed ...
Sujita Kumar Kar, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Pawan Sharma, Ayushi Dixit et al.
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Sujita Kumar Kar, Russell Kabir
To the Editor, Among the many special situations resulting from the COVID-19, panic buying is one of them which creates anxiety, fear, panic, and agitation. The phenomenon may happen in response to the impending catastrophe that can raise the price and take the necessary goods out of the hands of pe...
Milon Biswas, Marzia Hoque Tania, M. Shamim Kaiser, Russell Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Over the last decade, mobile health applications (mHealth App) have evolved exponentially to assess and support our health and well-being. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mHealth app rating tool, called ACCU3RATE, which takes multidimensional measur...
Russell Kabir, Ilias Mahmud, Mohammad Tawfique Hossain Chowdhury, Divya Vinnakota et al.
This article reports the intent to receive a SARS-COV-2 vaccine, its predictors and willingness to pay in Bangladesh. We carried out an online cross-sectional survey of 697 adults from the general population of Bangladesh in January 2021. A structured questionnaire was used to assess vaccination int...
Mainul Haque, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Judy McKimm, Golam Mohammad Kibria et al.
Background: Self-medication of drugs to alleviate symptoms is a common global behavior, helping relieve burdens on health services, but many drugs eg, antibiotics are prescription-only. Self-medication of antibiotics (SMA) is an irrational use of drugs, contributing to microbial resistance increasin...
S. M. Yasir Arafat, MA Mohit, Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Russell Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Suicide is an important, understudied public health problem in Bangladesh, where risk factors for suicide have not been investigated by case-control psychological autopsy study. AIMS: To identify the major risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: We designed a matched case...
Md Shahjahan, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Afsana Afroz, Hasina Akhter Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: The role of male's participation in reproductive healthcare is now well-recognized. The present study investigated the role of men in some selected reproductive health issues, characterizing their involvement, including factors influencing their participation in reproductive healthcare s...
Abdullah Bin Shams, Ehsanul Hoque Apu, Ashiqur Rahman, Md. Mohsin Sarker Raihan et al.
Misinformation such as on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) drugs, vaccination or presentation of its treatment from untrusted sources have shown dramatic consequences on public health. Authorities have deployed several surveillance tools to detect and slow down the rapid misinformation spread onl...
Rawan Jalabneh, Haniya Zehra Syed, Sunitha Pillai, Ehsanul Hoque Apu et al.
Background: Contact tracing is a widely adopted surveillance system that is used to identify, evaluate, and handle people who have been exposed to novel infectious diseases. The mobile phone apps using a digital technological system, called “proximity tracking,” is used as a surveillance system to c...
Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Mamunur Rashid, Russell Kabir et al.
OBJECTIVES: The study aims to differentiate the risk factors of single and multiple concurrent forms of undernutrition among children under 5 in Bangladesh. DESIGN: A nationally representative cross-sectional study. SETTING: Bangladesh. RESPONDENTS: Children age under 5 years of age. OUTCOME MEASURE...
Russell Kabir
The use of health services is related to the availability, quality and cost of the services, as well as to social structure, health beliefs and the personal characteristics of the users. Antenatal care (ANC) is an important determinant of high maternal mortality rate and one of the basic components ...
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Md. Rashed Babu, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Inadequate cognitive and socio-emotional development in children leads to physical and mental illness. We aimed to investigate the status of early childhood development (ECD) and its associated factors. Additionally, aimed to compare the changes of significantly associated factors using ...
M. J. Hasan, M. U. Kulsum, Umakanta Sarker, Mohammad Quamrul Islam Matin et al.
Twenty-six rice hybrids were evaluated at three locations. Data were normally distributed after running the Shapiro-Wilk test. Plant height and effective tillers/hills showed leptokurtic distribution, indicating these traits were controlled by fewer genes, whereas the rest of the attributes had plat...