Fatema Khatun, Anita Heywood, Pradeep Ray, SMA Hanifi et al.
Introduction Evidence in favor of mHealth for healthcare delivery in settings where trained health workforce is limited or unavailable is accumulating. With rapid growth in access to mobile phones and an acute shortage of health workforce in Bangladesh, mHealth initiatives are increasing with more t...
Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Sabrina Rasheed, Tamanna Sharmin, Tanvir Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is facing serious shortage of trained health professionals. In the pluralistic healthcare system of Bangladesh, formal health care providers constitute only 5 % of the total workforce; the rest are informal health care providers. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) a...
Fatema Khatun, SMA Hanifi, Mohammad Iqbal, Sabrina Rasheed et al.
INTRODUCTION: Bangladesh has a serious shortage of qualified health workforce. The limited numbers of trained service providers are based in urban areas, which limits access to quality healthcare for the rural population. mHealth provides a new opportunity to ensure access to quality services to the...
Rafia S. Rasu, Mohammad Iqbal, SMA Hanifi, Ariful Moula et al.
OBJECTIVE: Village doctors, informal health care providers practicing modern medicine, are dominant health care providers in rural Bangladesh. Given their role, it is important to examine their prescription pattern and inappropriate use of medication. METHODS: These cross-sectional study data were c...
Mohammad Iqbal, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Mohammad Nahid Mia et al.
BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure is a major obstacle for achieving universal health coverage in low-income countries including Bangladesh. Sixty-three percent of the USD 27 annual per-capita healthcare expenditure in Bangladesh comes from individuals' pockets. Although health i...
Abdur Razzaque, Mohammad Iqbal, SMA Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.
Abbas Bhuiya, SMA Hanifi, Farhana Urni, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood
BACKGROUND: Achieving equity by way of improving the condition of the economically poor or otherwise disadvantaged is among the core goals of contemporary development paradigm. This places importance on monitoring outcome indicators among the poor. National surveys allow disaggregation of outcomes b...
Emily L. Pakhtigian, Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, A. S. Akanda et al.
In Bangladesh, cholera poses a significant environmental health risk. Yet, information about the severity of cholera risk is limited as risk varies over time and changing weather patterns make historical cholera risk predictions less reliable. In this paper, we examine how households use geographica...
Abbas Bhuiya, SMA Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood
Equity and gender, despite being universal concerns for all health programmes in Bangladesh, are often missing in many of the health agenda. The health programmes fail to address these important dimensions unless these are specifically included in the planning stage of a programme and are continuall...
Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Moazzem Hossain, Ayesha Aziz
The article reports the process of carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign, and its effect on the villagers' knowledge about AIDS in a remote rural area of Bangladesh. The campaign was carried out on the occasion of the “Worlds AIDS Day, 1996,” by the volunteers of the village-based traditional self...
Subhajit Roy, Madhura More, Ayushi Trivedi, Punnag Saha et al.
Climate change is exacerbating heatwaves, significantly increasing public health risks, including heightened vulnerability to Vibrio vulnificus infections, especially among older adults. While heat stress alone impairs immune regulation and compromises gut integrity, the combined effects of aging an...
Farah Nusrat, A. S. Akanda, Abdullah Islam, Sonia Aziz et al.
Cholera, an acute waterborne diarrheal disease, remains a major global health challenge. Despite being curable and preventable, it can be fatal if left untreated, especially for children. Bangladesh, a cholera-endemic country with a high disease burden, experiences two peaks annually, during the dry...
Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Zahid Hassan, Rumayan Hasan, G. Rabbani et al.
Health system impact of COVID-19 on selected urban slum population of Bangladesh: A rapid assessment study to support pandemic preparedness 3 Background: Worldwide the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been grave, particularly in countries with a weak health systems like Bangladesh.We rapidly assessed...
Shamshad Jahan, Abbas Bhuiya, SMA Hanifi, Mohammad Iqbal et al.
Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death among adults and their prevalence has been increasing in the developing countries such as Bangladesh. Evidence from rando...