Tackling socioeconomic inequalities and non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries under the Sustainable Development agenda

LW Niessen, D Mohan, JK Akuoku, AJ Mirelman… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Summary Five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set targets that relate to the
reduction of health inequalities nationally and worldwide. These targets are poverty …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of food reformulation and fortification to improve dietary and nutrition outcomes

J Fanzo, R McLaren, A Bellows, B Carducci - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Reformulation, a change to a food or beverage's processing or composition, can reduce
potentially harmful ingredients such as salt, added sugar, and saturated and trans fats or …

Genetic and reproductive consequences of consanguineous marriage in Bangladesh

S Anwar, J Taslem Mourosi, Y Arafat, MJ Hosen - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction This study aimed to assess the prevalence, sociodemographic factors,
reproductive consequences, and heritable disease burdens associated with …

Assessing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments and their determinants in Bangladesh: evidence from the …

S Ahmed, MW Ahmed, MZ Hasan, GG Mehdi… - International …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare have been increasing steadily in
Bangladesh, which deteriorates the financial risk protection of many households. Methods …

Prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors among poor shantytown residents in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a community-based cross-sectional survey

M Khalequzzaman, C Chiang, SR Choudhury… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aims to describe the prevalence of non-communicable disease (NCD)
risk factors among the urban poor in Bangladesh. Design We conducted a community-based …

云南省农村老年人五种常见慢性病及共病的流行现状及与社会经济地位的关系

李潇, 蔡乐, 王旭明, 崔文龙, 吕思齐… - 中华疾病控制 …, 2019 - zhjbkz.ahmu.edu.cn
目的分析云南省农村老年人高血压, 糖尿病, 脑卒中, 冠心病, 慢性阻塞性肺疾病(chronic
obstructive pneumonia diseases, COPD) 及共病的流行现状及与社会经济地位的关系 …

Rural community perceptions of antibiotic access and understanding of antimicrobial resistance: qualitative evidence from the Health and Demographic Surveillance …

M Chowdhury, J Stewart Williams, H Wertheim… - Global Health …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background The use of large quantities of antimicrobial drugs for human health and
agriculture is advancing the predominance of drug resistant pathogens in the environment …

Health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh

N Alam, T Ali, A Razzaque, M Rahman… - International journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh,(icddr, b, former Pakistan
SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory) set up a field diarrhoea hospital in Matlab in …

Happiness in Bangladesh: The role of religion and connectedness

J Devine, T Hinks, A Naveed - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019 - Springer
Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence.
Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the …

Socioeconomic inequalities in the risk factors of noncommunicable diseases (hypertension and diabetes) among Bangladeshi population: Evidence based on …

MA Rahman - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and diabetes are
among the most fatal disease and prevalent among the adult population worldwide …