Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sabrina Rasheed et al.
Bangladesh, the eighth most populous country in the world with about 153 million people, has recently been applauded as an exceptional health performer. In the first paper in this Series, we present evidence to show that Bangladesh has achieved substantial health advances, but the country's success ...
Norihiro Kato, CARDIo GRAMplusCD, LifeLines Cohort Study, Marie Loh et al.
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10−11 to 5.0 × 10−21). ...
Kaneta Choudhury, Manzoor A. Hanifi, Sabrina Rasheed, Abbas Bhuiya
Bangladesh typifies many south-eastern countries where female children experience inferior health and uncertain survival, especially after the neonatal period. This paper attempts to study the gender inequality in nutritional status and the effects of various socioeconomic, demographic, and health-p...
Rukhsana Haider, Sabrina Rasheed, Tina Sanghvi, Nazmul Hassan et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, many programs and projects have been promoting breastfeeding since the late 1980 s. Breastfeeding practices, however, have not improved accordingly. METHODS: For identifying program-relevant issues to improve breastfeeding in infancy, quantitative data were collected throu...
Tanvir Ahmed, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Sabrina Rasheed, Mohammad Iqbal et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, the rapid growth of technology and its use as a development solution has generated much interest in digital health. In line with global trends, Bangladesh is also integrating technology into its health system to address disparities. Strong political endorsement and uptake of di...
Wajiha Khatun, Sabrina Rasheed, Ashraful Alam, Tanvir Huda et al.
Short maternal stature is identified as a strong predictor of offspring undernutrition in low and middle-income countries. However, there is limited information to confirm an intergenerational link between maternal and under-five undernutrition in Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aimed to assess th...
Ashraful Alam, Sabrina Rasheed, Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Tamanna Sharmin et al.
BACKGROUND: The study objective was to understand community preparedness for iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation early in pregnancy and to inform the design of a large-scale trial of early introduction of IFA supplementation in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: 66 in-depth interviews (pregnant women,...
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, Sabrina Rasheed, Allisyn C. Moran, Ashraful Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has about 5.7 million people living in urban slums that are characterized by adverse living conditions, poor access to healthcare services and health outcomes. In an attempt to ensure safe maternal, neonatal and child health services in the slums BRAC started a programme, MANO...
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...
Tanvir Ahmed, Gerald Bloom, Mohammad Iqbal, Henry C. Lucas et al.
There is growing enthusiasm amongst analysts of global health for the possibilities opened up by the rapid spread of mobile phone coverage. This includes substantially increasing access to health-related information and advice and to expert medical consultations. Some argue we are reaching a tipping...
Sabrina Rasheed, Rukhsana Haider, Nazmul Hassan, Helena Pachón et al.
BACKGROUND: Child undernutrition remains high in South Asian and sub-Saharan African countries. Rapid declines in nutritional status occur before the age of 2 years, particularly during the period of complementary feeding. Improving complementary feeding practices is a neglected area in nutrition pr...
Sabrina Rasheed, Abdullah Siddique, Tamanna Sharmin, A M Rumayan Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: High salt consumption is an important risk factor of elevated blood pressure. In Bangladesh about 20 million people are at high risk of hypertension due to climate change induced saline intrusion in water. The objective of this study is to assess beliefs, perceptions, and practices assoc...
Wajiha Khatun, Ashraful Alam, Sabrina Rasheed, Tanvir Huda et al.
BACKGROUND: Global or regional evidence showed maternal height as a strong predictor of child survival. However, there is limited information that confirms the intergenerational effect of short maternal height on the risk of offspring mortality in Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aimed to examine t...
Sabrina Rasheed, Shamshad Jahan, Tamanna Sharmin, Shahidul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence from numerous studies suggests that salt intake is an important determinant of elevated blood pressure. Robust data about salt consumption among adults in Bangladesh is sparse. However, much evidence suggests saline intrusion due to sea level rise as a result of climate change e...