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How has early marriage, a critical social determinant of child stunting and wasting, changed over a decade in South Asia? trends, inequities and drivers, 2005 to 2018
(Oxford Academic, 2020-05-29)
Objectives:
In South Asia, many women are married before their 18th birthday and give birth soon after. Delaying marriage is an attractive nutrition policy target as previous research shows that early marriage (EM) is ...
Prevalence of Non-communicable disease risk factors among adolescent girls and boys in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Nutrition Surveillance Study
(Oxford Academic, 2020-06)
Objectives:
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and their risk factors have become a major public health problem worldwide. Understanding NCD risk factors among adolescents is important as many risk behaviors start in this ...
Thinness and fecundability: Time to pregnancy after adolescent marriage in rural Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2020-03-24)
Undernutrition may affect fecundability, but few studies have quantified this relationship. In rural Bangladesh, where newlywed couples face strong pressures to
become pregnant, we assessed fecundability, estimated by ...
Developing core economic parameter sets for asthma studies: A realist review and an analytical framework
(BMJ Journals, 2020-10-20)
Objective: To develop a standardised set of economic
parameters (core economic parameter set) for economic
evaluations in asthma studies.
Design A systematic literature review and an analytical
framework.
Outcome ...
Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements
(Springer Link, 2020-04-24)
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in ...
Tackling antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh: A scoping review of policy and practice in human, animal and environment sectors
(PLOS ONE, 2020-01-27)
Background
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an emerging issue in the developing countries
as well as in Bangladesh. AMR is aggravated by irrational use of antimicrobials in a largely
unregulated pluralistic ...
Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17
(Elsevier, 2020-08)
Background: Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a form of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhoea that has the
potential to drastically reduce child mortality; yet, according to UNICEF estimates, less than half of ...
Why are adolescent mothers more likely to have stunted and underweight children than adult mothers? A path analysis using data from 30,000 Bangladeshi mothers, 1996–2014
(Oxford Academic, 2020-05-29)
Objectives:
Adolescent pregnancy is a major global concern due to its adverse effects on maternal and child health and wellbeing. Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy globally. We sought to ...
Inadequate dietary diversity and Its determinants among adolescent girls and boys: Evidence from the National Nutrition surveillance study in Bangladesh
(Oxford Academic, 2020-05-29)
Objectives:
Bangladesh is experiencing triple burden of malnutrition among adolescents, which may be associated with inadequate dietary diversity (IDD). In the recently completed round of the national nutrition surveillance ...
Reclaiming comprehensive public health
(BMJ Journals, 2020-09-25)
Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of responses to it in different countries and contexts.1 Acute emergencies often mobilise a short ...