Browsing James P. Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH) by Author "Rabbani, Atonu"

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    • Assessing the spatial accessibility of microfinance in northern Bangladesh: a GIS analysis 

      Khan, Akib; Rabbani, Atonu (© 2015 Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2015)
      This paper attempts to understand and operationalize the notion of spatial accessibility (SA) in the context of microfinance. Using geographic information system (GIS) data from northern Bangladesh, we have generated a ...

    • Explaining equity gains in child survival in Bangladesh: scale, speed, and selectivity in health and development 

      Adams, Alayne M; Rabbani, Atonu; Ahmed, Shamim; Mahmood, Shehrin Shaila; Al-Sabir, Ahmed; Rashid, Sabina F; Evans, Timothy G (© 2013 The Lancet, 2013)
      By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, signifi cant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health ...

    • Health shock and preference instability: Assessing health-state dependency of willingness-to-pay for corrective eyeglasses 

      Islam, Muhammed Nazmul; Rabbani, Atonu; Sarker, Malabika (BMC, 2019-11-07)
      Background: Differences in contingent valuation (CV) estimates for identical healthcare goods can cast considerable doubt on the true economic measures of consumer preferences. Hypothetical nature of CV methods can ...

    • Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action 

      Adams, Alayne M.; Ahmed, Tanvir; El Arifeen, Shams E.; Evans, Timothy Grant; Huda, Tanvir M.; Reichenbach, Laura J.; Ahmed, Faruque S K; Ahmed, Shamim; Ahmed, Syéd Masud; Azad, Kishwar; Bhuiya, Abbas Uddin; Mahmood, Shehrin Shaila; Cash, Richard A.; Chen, Lincoln; Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Khan; Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza; Christou, Aliki; Halder, Shantana R.; Husain, Mushtuq Mushtaq; Islam, Mohammad Sirajul; Islam, Khaled Shamsul; Huq, Shireen; Hussain, Zakir; Mahmud, Simeen; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; May, Maria A.; Osman, Ferdous Arfina; Peters, David H.; Perry, Henry B.; Rabbani, Atonu; Rahman, Mijanur Aminur; Rahman, Mahmudur Ziaur; Rasheed, Sabrina; Rashid, Sabina F.; Al-Sabir, Ahmed; Standing, Hilary; Mahmud, Simeen (© 2013 The Lancet, 2013)
      A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should ...

    • Trends and determinants of inequities in childhood stunting in Bangladesh from 1996/7 to 2014 

      Rabbani, Atonu; Khan, Akib; Yusuf, Sifat; Adams, Alayne (© 2016 International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016-11-16)
      Background We explore long-term trends and determinants of socioeconomic inequities in chronic childhood undernutrition measured by stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh. Given that one in three children remain ...

    • Willingness to pay for cataract surgeries among patients visiting eye care facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh 

      Islam, Muhammed Nazmul; Engels, Thomas; Hossain, Shafayet; Sarker, Malabika; Rabbani, Atonu (Springer Link, 2019-05-07)
      Background Cataract is the leading cause of avoidable blindness globally. It is estimated that 89% of people with visual impairment live in low- and middle-income countries where the cost of cataract surgery represents a ...