Jena Hamadani, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Andrew Baldi, Sheikh Jamal Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Stay-at-home orders (lockdowns) have been deployed globally to control COVID-19 transmission, and might impair economic conditions and mental health, and exacerbate risk of food insecurity and intimate partner violence. The effect of lockdowns in low-income and middle-income countries mu...
Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu, Shaheer Ansari, Md. Sazal Miah, Kamrul Hasan et al.
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Riaz Uddin, Subasish Das, Syed Imran Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has made substantial progress in improving socioeconomic and health indicators over the past 50 years, but data on national disease burden are scarce. We used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 to estimate the burden of disease...
Sant‐Rayn Pasricha, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Sabine Braat, Leila M Larson et al.
BACKGROUND: Universal provision of iron supplements (drops or syrup) or multiple micronutrient powders to young children in low-to-middle-income countries where anemia is prevalent is recommended by the World Health Organization and widely implemented. The functional benefits and safety of these int...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Rajib Biswas, I Kabir, Shafiqul Alam Sarker et al.
<h3>Abstract</h3> <b>Objective:</b> To evaluate the efficacy of a single large oral dose of vitamin A in treating acute shigellosis in children in Bangladesh. <b>Design:</b> Randomised double blind controlled clinical trial. <b>Setting:</b> Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...
Md. Sazal Miah, Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu, Sheikh Tanzim Meraj, Kamrul Hasan et al.
Concerns over growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fuel prices have prompted researchers to look into alternative energy sources, notably in the transportation sector, accounting for more than 70% of carbon emissions. An increasing amount of research on electric vehicles (EVs) and their energy...
Bassem Y. Sheikh, S. M. Neamul Kabir Zihad, Nazifa Sifat, Shaikh Jamal Uddin et al.
In addition to the rich nutritional value, date palm is also used in various ethnobotanical practices for the treatment of various disease conditions. Present investigation was undertaken to examine the neuropharmacological and antinociceptive effect of the ethanol extract of three date cultivars gr...
Sneha Sarwar, Md. Jamal Hossain, Nafis Md. Irfan, Tamima Ahsan et al.
Objectives: The current study investigated the curative effects of two selected antioxidant-rich foods (water spinach and red grape) and probiotics on the kidney exposed to nephrotoxicity induced by gentamicin. Methods: A total of 30 Wistar Albino female rats equally divided into six groups were stu...
Leila M Larson, Sabine Braat, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Martin N. Mwangi et al.
The accuracy of haemoglobin concentration measurements is crucial for deriving global anaemia prevalence estimates and monitoring anaemia reduction strategies. In this analysis, we examined and quantified the factors affecting preanalytic and analytic variation in haemoglobin concentrations. Using c...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Bharati Roy, Hasan Mahmud Sujan, Thach Tran et al.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence on benefits of psychosocial stimulation (PS) and cash transfer programmes in low- and middle-income countries on children's development. We integrated PS into an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programme for poor Bangladeshi mothers to examine the effects on children'...
Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Sabine Braat, Michael J. Dibley et al.
INTRODUCTION: Anaemia is a major global health problem affecting about 43% of preschool children globally and 60% of 6-24-month-old children in rural Bangladesh, half of which is attributed to iron deficiency (ID). Although WHO recommends universal supplementation with iron or home fortification wit...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Mt.Jannatul Ferdousi, Abu Bakkar Siddique, SM. Mulk Uddin Tipu et al.
BACKGROUND: Optimum utilization of primary health care system by older people is a challenge for every low and middle income country. Little is known about self reported health problems, health care seeking behaviour and cost coping mechanism of older people in developing countries. OBJECTIVES: This...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Bharati Roy, Aniqa Tasnim Hossain, Fardina Mehrin et al.
The burden of depression is high globally. Maternal depression affects the mother, the child, and other family members. We aimed to measure the prevalence of maternal postpartum depressive (PPD) symptoms having a child aged 6–16 months, health-seeking behavior for general illness of all family membe...
Frank van Leth, Ruffy Guilatco, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Anna H. van’t Hoog et al.
Addressing social determinants in the field of tuberculosis (TB) has received great attention in the past years, mainly due to the fact that worldwide TB incidence has not declined as much as expected, despite highly curative control strategies. One of the objectives of the World Health Organization...
Syeda Fardina Mehrin, Jena Derakshani Hamadani, Nur‐E Salveen, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al.
This paper describes the process of adapting an early childhood development programme, with proven effectiveness in Bangladesh, for integration into government health services in rural Bangladesh. Through a three-stage process, we adapted an evidence-based, home-visiting, programme (Reach-Up and Lea...