Scott Geibel, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Julie Pulerwitz, Nargis Sultana et al.
Purpose Working with health providers to reduce HIV stigma in the healthcare setting is an important strategy to improve service utilization and quality of care, especially for young people who are sexually active before marriage, are sexual minorities, or who sell sex. A stigma reduction training p...
Shongkour Roy, Mian Arif Shams Adnan
Shongkour Roy, Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to examine the fertility differential of women age 15 to 49 using data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014- a survey of women who were born from 1963 to 1999. Methods The secondary data analysis was carried out using the BDHS 2014 in order...
Shongkour Roy, Shivani Pandya, Sharif Hossain, Timothy Abuya et al.
INTRODUCTION: Bangladesh has a long history of mature and institutionalized community health worker (CHW) programs in primary health care. However, there is a lot of variability in the performance of the CHW programs in Bangladesh, as well as challenges associated with retention of CHWs. This study ...
Sharif Hossain, Pooja Sripad, Brady Zieman, Shongkour Roy et al.
BACKGROUND: Low rates of contraceptive continuation in Bangladesh are a symptom of poor quality family planning (FP) counseling. Improving family planning counseling by the country's community health care workers (CHWs) could improve contraceptive continuation. This study explores client experiences...
Shongkour Roy
Earthquakes are more deadly than any other form of natural hazard. Because of this, scientists have been searching for accurate ways to predict earthquakes so that lives can be saved. Statistical analysis is useful methods of predicting earthquakes. They provide additional insights to the seismic ha...
Shongkour Roy, Sarah M. Kennedy, Sharif Hossain, Charlotte Warren et al.
INTRODUCTION: Understanding community health workers' (CHWs) experiences of sustaining routine health care promotion and provision activities as well as their challenges in adopting new responsibilities within a dynamic context is critical. This study explored the roles and perspectives of CHWs with...
Eileen A. Yam, Nargis Sultana, Tarik Hossain, Brady Zieman et al.
Globally, reproductive health research among female sex workers (FSWs) often focuses on pregnancy prevention, but many women who sell sex aspire to have children in the future. In Bangladesh, where early marriage and parenthood is the norm, we examine reproductive histories and childbearing desires ...
Shongkour Roy
In many scientific fields such as biology (orientation of birds), geology (orientations of feldspar laths) and meteorology (wind direction and ozone concentration), data occur as angular forms. In this paper, a class of wrapped distribution called wrapped generalized Gompertz distributions are intro...
Shongkour Roy
Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) affects economic growths by reducing the human capitals are among the most poorly understood aspect of the AIDS epidemic. This article analyzes the effects of the prevalence of HIV and full-blown AIDS on a country's human ca...
Shongkour Roy, Tanjina Khatun
BACKGROUND: Maternal and neonatal mortality is high in South Asia. Recent studies have identified factors such as adolescent female fertility, healthcare spending is reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this study is to examine the effect of adolescent female fertility and heal...
Shongkour Roy, Kanij Sultana, Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, Pooja Sripad et al.
BACKGROUND: Pharmacy workers in Bangladesh play an important role in managing pregnancy complications by dispensing, counselling and selling drugs to pregnant women and their families. This study examined pharmacy workers' drug knowledge and practice for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E) management...
Sharif Hossain, Shongkour Roy, Kanij Sultana, Charlotte Warren
In resource-poor countries such as Bangladesh, proven life-saving commodities for pregnant women have not been optimally examined, such as magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) to manage severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, use of anti-hypertensives to manage high blood pressure during pregnancy, aspirin prophylaxi...
Shongkour Roy
The objective of this study was to examine the determinants of healthcare expenditure in Bangladesh between 1995 and 2010 by applying the World development indicator data.First, I developed an empirical model for longitudinal data analysis to determinant the healthcare expenditure under the human ca...
Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Shongkour Roy
The way of investigating a distribution knowing its interesting properties might be often inadequate when the shapes of two distributions are almost similar. In each of these circumstances, the accurate decision about the genesis of a random sample from any of the two parent distributions will be ve...