Abbas Bhuiya

Biographic Data

ID1399829
NAMEAbbas Bhuiya
GIVEN NAMESAbbas
FAMILY NAMEBhuiya
SIGNATUREBHUIYA A
AFFILIATIONSInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
ORCID0000-0001-9032-8760
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS182
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX8

  • Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh

    Open AccessNazia Sultana, Aazia Hossain et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Bangladesh initiated the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme (MHVS) in 2007 to improve maternal and child health practices and bring equity to the mainstream of health systems by reducing financial and institutional barriers. In this study, we investigated whether the MHVS has an association with immunization coverage in a rural area of Bangladesh. Between 30 October 2016 and 15 June 2017, we carried out a cross-sectional survey in two low performing …

  • The Bangladesh Maternal Health Voucher Scheme

    Open AccessMohammad Nahid Mia, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2022

    This study aimed to assess completeness of antenatal care coverage following implementation of a voucher scheme for maternal health in Bangladesh. The investigation used interview data from a survey conducted in Bangladesh in 2017 of 2400 randomly selected women aged 15–49 with children aged 0–23 months in four geographical areas where voucher scheme implementation was underway. Of these women, 1944 had attended at least one antenatal clinic visi…

  • Feasibility, acceptability and initial outcome of implementing community scorecard to monitor community level public health facilities

    Open AccessShehrin Shaila Mahmood, Sabrina Rasheed et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    The findings suggest that CSC is a feasible and acceptable tool to engage community and healthcare providers in monitoring and managing health facilities. For countries with health systems faced with challenges around accountability, quality and coverage, CSC has the potential to improve community level health-service delivery. The findings are intended to inform program implementers, donors and other stakeholders about context, mechanisms, outco…

  • Do community scorecards improve utilisation of health services in community clinics

    Open AccessSyed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Aazia Hossain et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    CSC is an effective tool to increase the service utilization provided by CCs by ensuring community awareness and participation, and service providers' accountability. Policy makers and concerned authorities may take necessary steps to integrate community scorecard in the health system by incorporating it in CCs

  • Social determinants of under-five mortality in urban Bangladesh

    Open AccessAsiful Haidar Chowdhury, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2020Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Does healthcare voucher provision improve utilisation in the continuum of maternal care for poor pregnant women? Experience from Bangladesh

    Open AccessShehrin Shaila Mahmood, Mark Lyons-Amos et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: Improving maternal health is a major development goal, with ambitious targets set for high-mortality countries like Bangladesh. Following a steep decline in the maternal mortality ratio over the past decade in Bangladesh, progress has plateaued at 196/100,000 live births. A voucher scheme was initiated in 2007 to reduce financial, geographical and institutional barriers to access for the poorest.Objective: The current paper reports th…

  • Health system innovations

    Open AccessGerald Bloom, Annie Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    This paper introduces the Thematic Issue on Innovation in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  • Who enrols in voluntary micro health insurance schemes in low-resource settings? Experience from a rural area in Bangladesh

    Open AccessShehrin Shaila Mahmood, Syed Manjoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    BACKGROUND: Micro health insurance (MHI) has proved to be a potential health-financing tool for many developing countries. Bangladesh also included MHI in its current health-financing strategy which aims to achieve universal health coverage. However, low uptake, low renewal and high dropouts have historically challenged financial sustainability of these schemes. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to identify factors influencing people from low-resource s…

  • Socioeconomic and programmatic determinants of renewal of membership in a voluntary micro health insurance scheme

    Open AccessMohammad Iqbal, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure is a major obstacle for achieving universal health coverage in low-income countries including Bangladesh. Sixty-three percent of the USD 27 annual per-capita healthcare expenditure in Bangladesh comes from individuals' pockets. Although health insurance is a financial tool for reducing OOP, use of such tools in Bangladesh has been limited to some small-scale voluntary micro health insurance (…

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessAsiful Haidar Chowdhury, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

    The socioeconomic inequality in under-five mortality is showing resistance against further reduction. An assessment of the adequacy of the existing programmes taking the proximate determinants of child survival into consideration will be useful for further improvement

  • Health literacy in a community with low levels of education

    Open AccessSusmita Das, Mohammad Nahid Mia et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    A low level of HL in terms of modern health service facilities, diabetes and hypertension clearly indicated the need for a systematic HL programme. The relatively high levels of literacy concerning immunization show that it is possible to enhance HL in areas with low levels of education through systematic awareness-raising programmes, which could result in higher service coverage

  • Effects of mothers’ deaths on children’s schooling in Matlab subdistrict, Bangladesh

    Abdur Razzaque, Julie Davanzo et al.ARTICLEAsian Population Studies2017References: 3

    This quantitative analysis examines evidence for the impacts of mothers’ death on the schooling of their left-behind children (ages 6–17 years) in the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) area of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The analysis compared the completed levels of primary and junior secondary schooling in 2005 (respectively Class 1 among ages 6–17, Class 5 among ages 12–17 and Cla…

  • Everyday health security practices as disaster resilience in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessNibedita S Ray-Bennett, Nibedita S Ray‐bennett et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2016References: 12

    Health security is a relatively new concept in terms of how it is practised in disaster-prone locales. We observed 10 rural households in Bangladesh for four months using informal interviews, field diaries, and observation. The findings suggest that the everyday practises of health security involve the capabilities of “caring for themselves” in resource-constrained contexts. Understanding how households care for themselves prior to and during dis…

  • Prenatal arsenic exposure and drowning among children in Bangladesh

    Open AccessMahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    There is increasing concern regarding adverse effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on the neurodevelopment of children. We analyzed mortality data for children, who were born to 11,414 pregnant women between 2002 and 2004, with an average age of 5 years of follow-up. Individual drinking-water arsenic exposure during pregnancy was calculated using tubewell water arsenic concentration between last menstrual period and date of birth. There were 84 d…

  • Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic status in Chakaria, Bangladesh

    Open AccessSyed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has achieved remarkable gains in health indicators during the last four decades despite low levels of economic development. However, the persistence of inequities remains disturbing. This success was also accompanied by health and demographic transitions, which in turn brings new challenges for a nation that has yet to come to terms with pre-transition health challenges. It is therefore important to understand the causes of…

  • Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By re…

  • HIV/Aids-related mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an opportunity to assess the mortality burden of the pandemic from individual data. OBJECTIVE: To present standardised comparisons of HIV/AIDS-related m…

  • Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis. Overviews of the state of external cause mortality in Africa and Asia are therefore based on uncertain information. The INDEPTH Network maintains longitudinal surveillance, including cause of death, at populatio…

  • Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be achieved by substantial reductions in risk factors and improvements in the management of chronic conditions. A high burden of NCD mortality among muc…

  • Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population surveillance in Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites across Africa and Asia, in which individual deaths are followed up with verbal autopsies…

  • Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia

    Open AccessPeter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By registering all deaths over time and carrying out verbal autopsies to determine cause of death across many such sites, using standardised methods, the Network seeks to …

  • The INDEPTH standard population for low- and middle-income countries, 2013

    Open AccessOsman Sankoh, David Sharrow et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    Crude rates such as the crude death rate are functions of both the age-specific rates and the age composition of a population. However, differences in the age structure between two populations or two time periods can result in specious differences in the corresponding crude rates making direct comparisons between populations or across time inappropriate. Therefore, when comparing crude rates between populations, it is desirable to eliminate or mi…

  • How much salt do adults consume in climate vulnerable coastal Bangladesh

    Open AccessSabrina Rasheed, Shamshad Jahan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    It is important to create awareness about the implication of excessive salt intake on health and to develop strategies for reducing salt intake that can be implemented at the community-level. A sustainable policy for salt reduction in the Bangladeshi diet should be formulated with special emphasis on coastal areas

  • A prospective cohort study of stroke mortality and arsenic in drinking water in Bangladeshi adults

    Open AccessMahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    The result suggests that arsenic exposure was associated with increased stroke mortality risk in this population, and was more significant in women compared to men

  • The Bangladesh paradox

    A Mushtaque R Chowdhury, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013