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Open AccessFactors affecting practices of recently delivered women on maternal and neonatal health care in selected rural areas of Bangladesh
Bangladesh has made laudable progress in maternal and child health (MCH). Maternal and child mortalities have reduced substantially accompanied by stellar rise in immunization and contraceptive prevalence rate...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of home-based “egg-suji” diet in management of severe acute malnutrition of Rohingya refugee children
Prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among Rohingya children aged 6–59 months who took shelter in refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, was found to be 7.5%.
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Open AccessCan programmatic inputs improve adolescent mothers’ access to maternal care in rural Bangladesh? Nine years of evidence from a cohort study
Adolescent mothers (Girls aged 15–19) constitute 8% of annual global births, but account for 10% of annual maternal deaths. WHO recommended 4–8 Antenatal Care (ANC) visits, in addition to quality care and faci...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Improving methods to measure comparable mortality by cause (IMMCMC): gold standard verbal autopsy dataset
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Open AccessPerceived stress, eating behavior, and overweight and obesity among urban adolescents
WHO estimated 20% of adolescents (10–19 years) have mental health problems. We examined the prevalence and associated risk predictors of overweight/obesity and perceived stress using eating behaviors and physi...
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Open AccessImproving methods to measure comparable mortality by cause (IMMCMC): gold standard verbal autopsy dataset
Gold standard cause of death data is critically important to improve verbal autopsy (VA) methods in diagnosing cause of death where civil and vital registration systems are inadequate or poor. As part of a thr...
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Open AccessAdult death registration in Matlab, rural Bangladesh: completeness, correlates, and obstacles
Civil registration of vital events such as deaths and births is a key part of the process of securing rights and benefits for individuals worldwide. It also enables the production of vital statistics for local...
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Open AccessLabor migration is associated with lower rates of underweight and higher rates of obesity among left-behind wives in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study
Among Bangladeshi men, international labor migration has increased ten-fold since 1990 and rural to urban labor migration rates have steadily increased. Labor migration of husbands has increased household weal...
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Open AccessNeonatal and child mortality data in retrospective population-based surveys compared with prospective demographic surveillance: EN-INDEPTH study
Global mortality estimates remain heavily dependent on household surveys in low- and middle-income countries, where most under-five deaths occur. Few studies have assessed the accuracy of mortality data or det...
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Open AccessGestational age data completeness, quality and validity in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study
Preterm birth (gestational age (GA) <37 weeks) is the leading cause of child mortality worldwide. However, GA is rarely assessed in population-based surveys, the major data source in low/middle-income countrie...
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Open AccessElectronic data collection in a multi-site population-based survey: EN-INDEPTH study
Electronic data collection is increasingly used for household surveys, but factors influencing design and implementation have not been widely studied. The Every Newborn-INDEPTH (EN-INDEPTH) study was a multi-s...
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Open AccessRobustness of the Tariff method for diagnosing verbal autopsies: impact of additional site data on the relationship between symptom and cause
Verbal autopsy (VA) is increasingly being considered as a cost-effective method to improve cause of death information in countries with low quality vital registration. VA algorithms that use empirical data hav...
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Open AccessOn the estimation of population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital deaths
Almost all countries without complete vital registration systems have data on deaths collected by hospitals. However, these data have not been widely used to estimate cause of death (COD) patterns in populatio...
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Open AccessComparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system
Deaths in develo** countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information. Automated COD assignment using a verbal autopsy instrume...
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Open AccessCollecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets
There is increasing interest in using verbal autopsy to produce nationally representative population-level estimates of causes of death. However, the burden of processing a large quantity of surveys collected ...
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Open AccessGeneral service and child immunization-specific readiness assessment of healthcare facilities in two selected divisions in Bangladesh
Service readiness of health facilities is an integral part of providing comprehensive quality healthcare to the community. Comprehensive assessment of general and service-specific (i.e. child immunization) rea...
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Open AccessThe quality of medical death certification of cause of death in hospitals in rural Bangladesh: impact of introducing the International Form of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
Accurate and timely data on cause of death are critically important for guiding health programs and policies. Deaths certified by doctors are implicitly considered to be reliable and accurate, yet the quality ...
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Open AccessImpact of mobile phone-based technology to improve health, population and nutrition services in Rural Bangladesh: a study protocol
Mobile phone-based technology has been used in improving the delivery of healthcare services in many countries. However, data on the effects of this technology on improving primary healthcare services in resou...
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Open AccessTrends, determinants and inequities of 4+ ANC utilisation in Bangladesh
The objectives of this study are to document the trend on utilisation of four or more (4+) antenatal care (ANC) over the last 22 years period and to explore the determinants and inequity of 4+ ANC utilisation as ...
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Open AccessEvaluation of impact of measles rubella campaign on vaccination coverage and routine immunization services in Bangladesh
Like other countries in Asia, measles-rubella (MR) vaccine coverage in Bangladesh is suboptimal whereas 90–95 % coverage is needed for elimination of these diseases. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (...
