Faculty Research: Recent submissions
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Quality of care during childbirth at public health facilities in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study using WHO/ UNICEF ‘Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN)’ standards
(BMJ, 2019)Background This manuscript presents findings from a baseline assessment of health facilities in Bangladesh prior to the implementation of the ‘Every Mother Every Newborn Quality Improvement’ initiative. Methodology A ... -
Child marriage: historical reality around the globe and in Bangladesh – A literature review
(Archives of Psychology, 2018)Child marriage, defined as marriage before 18 years, is a reality for more than 60 million women worldwide. This is more prevalent in developing countries including Bangladesh. Although the uni- versal age for the ... -
Quality of Care for the Maternal Complications at Selected Primary and Secondary Health Facilities of Bangladesh: Lessons Learned from a Formative Research
(International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation, 2018)After having astounding achievements in reducing maternal mortality and achieving the target for Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the Government of Bangladesh has set new target to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) ... -
Competence of healthcare professionals in diagnosing and managing obstetric complications and conducting neonatal care: a clinical vignette-based assessment in district and subdistrict hospitals in northern Bangladesh
(BMJ, 2018)Background This study assesses the competency of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) professionals at district-level and subdistrict-level health facilities in northern Bangladesh in managing maternal and newborn complications ... -
Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression
(ELSEVIER, 2019)Background The burden of fatal police violence is an urgent public health crisis in the USA. Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact people of certain races and ethnicities, ... -
Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
(BMJ, 2019)Background While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates ... -
Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(BMJ, 2019)Background Past research in population health trends has shown that injuries form a substantial burden of population health loss. Regular updates to injury burden assessments are critical. We report Global Burden of ... -
Prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression within one year after birth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
(PLOS ONE, 2019)Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious pubic health concern and known to have the adverse effects on mother’s perinatal wellbeing; and child’s physical and cognitive develop- ment. There were limited literatures on ... -
Prevalence and determinants of initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth: An analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2014
(PLOS ONE, 2019)Background Breastfeeding within one hour of birth is a critical component of newborn care and is esti- mated to avert 22% of neonatal mortality globally. Understanding the determinants of early initiation of ... -
Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(CrossMark, 2019)Summary Background Documentation of patterns and long-term trends in mortality in young people, which reflect huge changes in demographic and social determinants of adolescent health, enables identification of global ... -
The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study
(BMJ, 2019)Background Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related mortality globally. Unintentional drowning (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10 codes W65-74 and ICD9 E910) is one of the 30 mutually exclusive and ... -
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with caesarean section in four Hard-to-Reach areas of Bangladesh: Findings from a cross- sectional survey
(PLOS ONE, 2019)Background Caesarean section (C-section) is a major obstetric life-saving intervention for the prevention of pregnancy and childbirth related complications. Globally C-section is increasing, as well as in Bangladesh. ... -
Are childbirth location and mode of delivery associated with favorable early breastfeeding practices in hard to reach areas of Bangladesh?
(PLOS ONE, 2020)Background Early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth (EIBF) and no prelacteal feeding are WHO recommended practices for improving maternal and newborn health outcomes. Glob- ally, EIBF can avert around ... -
The Interaction of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency on the Outcome of Depression Among Children and Youth, 8-17 year olds
(Author manuscript, 2020)Background—Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common among children. Little is known on how resilience factors and positive childhood experiences (PCEs) may moderate the relationship between ACEs and childhood ... -
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018
(Nature human behaviour, 2021)Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)—giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life—is a component of optimal breast- feeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are ... -
Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems
(BMC Medicine, 2021)Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a public health priority in Latin America. While the burden of HIV is historically concentrated in urban areas and high-risk groups, subnational estimates that ... -
An Uninformed Decision-Making Process for Cesarean Section: A Qualitative Exploratory Study among the Slum Residents of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
(MPDI, 2021)The decision-making process and the information flow from physicians to patients regard- ing deliveries through cesarean section (C-section) has not been adequately explored in Bangladeshi context. Here, we aimed to ... -
Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018
(nature medicine, 2021)Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence in women ...