Aminur Rahman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aminur Rahman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aminur |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahman |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2242-8734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Factors influencing type 2 diabetes self-management practices in rural Bangladesh: A qualitative investigation
Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a prevalent, chronic health condition of global significance, with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) disproportionately affected. Diabetes self-management practices (DSMP) are the gold-standard treatment approach, yet uptake remains challenge in LMICs. Purpose of the study: This study aimed to explore the barriers to and facilitators of DSMP and preferences for intervention design and delive…
High-risk human papillomavirus testing for underscreened populations: Cost-effectiveness and affordability in three country settings
The provided estimates can serve to inform policymakers and researchers in the context of implementing hrHPV-based screening in diverse settings
The Price of Resilience: How Climate Capitalism Exploits Coastal Lives in Bangladesh
Cultural barriers: The missing link in sustainable development in Bangladesh
From threat to justice: Rethinking the securitisation of climate-induced migration from the Global South
Risk communication and community engagement in the context of Covid-19 response in Bangladesh: A qualitative study
Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted nations worldwide, and Bangladesh was no exception. In response, the government of Bangladesh implemented community awareness initiatives aimed at containing the spread of the virus, aligned with international guidelines and recommendations. Despite these efforts, a lack of comprehensive community awareness programs played an essential role during the pandemic, not the preventive measur…
A framework for identifying opportunities for multisectoral action for drowning prevention in health and sustainable development agendas: A multimethod approach
INTRODUCTION: The 2023 World Health Assembly resolution 76.18 committed the World Health Organization to the coordination of drowning prevention efforts, including those of United Nations (UN) agencies. Here, we aim to map drowning prevention linkages across UN Agency agendas, make recommendations to guide global strategies and inform the development of the Global Alliance and a Global Strategy for drowning prevention. METHODS: We applied a quali…
Experience in implementing adolescent friendly health services in rural districts of Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has initiated Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS) at health facilities to improve access of adolescents to quality health care. This study aimed to document the AFHS program experiences and interventions implemented in four districts of Bangladesh. The study adopted review of literature, relevant project documents, research reports and analysis of secondary data on AFHS. The secondary data was extracted from th…
Finance, informal competition, and expectations: A firm-level analysis
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are less likely to apply for a bank loan. This result is not due to sample selection, omitted variable bias, or reverse causality, and it is robust to different econometric specifications, including the use of an IV strategy. As for the mechanism explaining…
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition
We study the effect of conflict on firms’ economic performance and the underlying mechanisms. We develop a simple theoretical framework in which conflict reduces a firm’s output, induces input substitution, and increases firms’ exit. In our empirical analysis, we combine an original dataset of Libyan firms and geolocalized data on conflict events during the Second Libyan Civil War to show that, in line with the predictions of the model, conflict …
Caregivers’ Compliance and Perception of Daycare Centers—A Community-Based Childhood Drowning Prevention Intervention Implemented in Rural Bangladesh
Drowning was one of the most prevalent causes of death worldwide for children under five in 2020. Drowning was the second leading cause of death for children under five in Bangladesh, while 58% of all deaths in the 1-5 years old age group resulted from drowning. Adult supervision helps prevent child drowning in rural areas where water bodies are easily accessible and located very close to homes. This paper aims to assess caregivers' compliance an…
Investigating feasibility of 2021 WHO protocol for cervical cancer screening in underscreened populations: PREvention and SCReening Innovation Project Toward Elimination of Cervical Cancer (PRESCRIP-T…
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05234112 . Registered 10 February 2022
A Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Cultural and Social Perceptions and Practices About Covid-19 in Bangladesh: What the Policy Makers and Program Planners Should Know
Anthropological literature on health beliefs and practices related to COVID-19 is scarce, particularly in low and middle-income countries. We conducted a qualitative research on perceptions of COVID-19 among slum residents of Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 2020 through January, 2021. Methods included in-depth interviews and photo elicitation with community residents. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed thematically. Results show scientific …
Challenges in Documenting Non-Fatal Drowning Disability in Bangladesh: A Community-Based Survey
Limited access to health care and the lack of robust data systems means non-fatal drownings are largely missed in low-and middle-income countries. We report morbidity among individuals who experienced non-fatal drowning in the Barishal Division, Bangladesh. A representative household survey was conducted in the Barishal Division in southern Bangladesh between September 2016 and February 2017, covering a population of 386,016. The burden of non-fa…
Covid-19 Transmission due to Mass Mobility Before and After the Largest Festival in Bangladesh: An Epidemiologic Study
Festivals traditionally result in mass public mobility from large cities to rural or semi-urban areas in low- and middle-Income Countries (LMIC), which are inadequately prepared for tackling the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to explore the trend of COVID-19 infection in a peripheral region of Bangladesh during one of the largest festivals to develop an evidence-based hypothesis for its influence on the transmission rate …
Rapid Assessment of Price Instability and Paucity of Medicines and Protection for Covid-19 Across Asia: Findings and Public Health Implications for the Future
Background: Countries have introduced a variety of measures to prevent and treat COVID-19 with medicines and personal protective equipment (PPE), with some countries adopting preventative strategies earlier than others. However, there has been considerable controversy surrounding some treatments. This includes hydroxychloroquine where the initial hype and misinformation lead to shortages, price rises and suicides. Price rises and shortages have a…
Trends and Determinants of EBF among Adolescent Children Born to Adolescent Mothers in Rural Bangladesh
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) has proven benefits for both mothers and infants; however, adolescent mothers have poor EBF practices globally. In Bangladesh, the practice of EBF among adolescent mothers remains unexplored. The aim of our study was to understand the EBF practices among adolescent mothers and their determinants in both the Health and Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) system areas of the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Resea…
Opportunities for gender transformative approaches in a community-based drowning reduction program in Bangladesh
The Anchal program both adapted to and shaped community gender norms and roles. The program has well-established relationships in the community and can be leveraged to implement gender transformative activities to improve gender-based equity. Health programs can broaden their impacts and target social determinants of health like gender equity to increase program sustainability and promote equitable health outcomes
Barriers in access to healthcare services for individuals with disorders of sex differentiation in Bangladesh: An analysis of regional representative cross-sectional data
DSD population in Bangladesh have limited access to healthcare facilities and facing multiple barriers to get healthcare services. Initiatives from the government and social organizations are important to ensure their access to healthcare services
Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending
Complexity in Implementing Community Drowning Reduction Programs in Southern Bangladesh: A Process Evaluation Protocol
Living and geographical conditions in Bangladesh expose children to a high risk of drowning. Two programs operating in the Barishal Division of Bangladesh aim to reduce drowning risk through the provision of crèches (Anchal) and swim and rescue classes (SwimSafe). Anchal provides a safe environment with early childhood education to children aged 1−5 years old, while SwimSafe teaches children aged 6−10 years old basic swimming and rescue skills. D…
Burden of Lesser-Known Unintentional Non-Fatal Injuries in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Large-Scale Population-Based Study
Around 90% of all fatal and non-fatal unintentional injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The magnitude of unintentional injuries is unclear due to limited research and data. This paper describes the burden of lesser-known injuries (LKIs-cut injuries, unintentional poisoning, machine injuries, electrocution, injury by blunt objects, and suffocation) in rural Bangladesh, using data from the Saving of Lives from Drowning (SoLi…
Context of water transport related drownings in Bangladesh: A qualitative study
There are some immediate measures that can be implemented, with some monitoring and accountability processes for water transport safety. However, there is need for robust data to quantify transport related drowning, making a case for prioritization and action by relevant stakeholder such as government and transport providers
Working to stay healthy’, health-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh’s urban slums: A qualitative study
Health seeking behaviour of slum dwellers of Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh is based on competing priorities, where quick and effective care is key, focussed on the ability to work and generate income. This takes place in a fragmented healthcare system characterised by mistrust of providers, and where navigation is informed by word-of-mouth experiences of peers. Improving health in this context demands a comprehensive and integrated approach to hea…
Investigating the process of evidence-informed health policymaking in Bangladesh: A systematic review
Over the last four decades, Bangladesh has made considerable improvements in population health, this is in part due to the use of evidence to inform policymaking. This systematic review aims to better understand critical factors that have facilitated the diffusion of scientific evidence into multiple phases of health policymaking in Bangladesh. To do this an existing policy framework designed by Shiffman and Smith in 2007, was used to extract and…
Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development: Who pays
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
Firms amid conflict: Performance, production inputs, and market competition
We study the effect of conflict on firms’ economic performance and the underlying mechanisms. We develop a simple theoretical framework in which conflict reduces a firm’s output, induces input substitution, and increases firms’ exit. In our empirical analysis, we combine an original dataset of Libyan firms and geolocalized data on conflict events during the Second Libyan Civil War to show that, in line with the predictions of the model, conflict …
Finance, informal competition, and expectations: A firm-level analysis
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are less likely to apply for a bank loan. This result is not due to sample selection, omitted variable bias, or reverse causality, and it is robust to different econometric specifications, including the use of an IV strategy. As for the mechanism explaining…
Women, Cultural Ideology, and Change in Rural Bangladesh
This paper is concerned with women and empowerment. It stresses the ideological perspective of gender roles in Bangladesh and the realities of poor rural women's lives. The conceptualization of gender in Bangladesh is culturally constructed and socially organized. Ideologically, women are powerless in the economic and social arenas. Persistent poverty in the country has compelled the structure of the household to change. Now many poor rural women…
Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development: Who pays
Estimating the Effects of Corruption: Implications for Bangladesh
Countries that are serious about reducing corruption tend to attract more investment, both domestic and foreign, and to accelerate economic growth and poverty reduction
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
Heard Melodies Are Sweet, But Those Unheard Are Sweeter: Understanding Corruption Using Cross-National Firm-Level Surveys
Since the early 1990s, a large number of studies have been undertaken to understand the causes and consequences of corruption. Many of these studies have employed firm-level survey data from various countries. While insightful, these analyses based on firm-level surveys have largely ignored two important potential problems: nonresponse and false response by the firms. Treating firms' responses on a sensitive issue like corruption at their face va…
Socioeconomic inequality in child injury in Bangladesh - implication for developing countries
Despite concentration indices used in this study, the analysis reflected the family's socioeconomic position in a Bangladesh context, showing a very strong statistical association with child mortality. Due to the existing socioeconomic situation in Bangladesh, the poor children were more vulnerable to injury occurrence
Effectiveness of an integrated approach to reduce perinatal mortality: Recent experiences from Matlab, Bangladesh
The continuum of care approach provided through the integration of service delivery modes decreased the perinatal mortality rate within a short period of time. Further testing of this model is warranted within the government health system in Bangladesh and other low-income countries
SP6-62 “PRECISE-a model of community participation in child injury prevention in Bangladesh, implication for other low income country”
Introduction Community participation is an important component of a community based health intervention especially in designing, implementing and sustainability issue. A model of community participation was developed and practiced in child injury prevention project PRECISE (Prevention of Child Injury through Social Intervention) in Bangladesh. Objective To describe the process of development and role of community groups in injury prevention proje…
SP6-65 Emergency medical service through community based volunteers in rural areas Bangladesh
Background Emergency medical service (EMS) cannot only lessen the severity of an illness but can also save lives. In this study we accessed the emergency medical services provided by trained community based volunteers in rural areas of Bangladesh. The objectives of this study were (1) To access the volunteer based emergency medical services and (2) To describe the types of emergency medical care services provided by the volunteers. Methods In 200…
The prevalence of naturally acquired swimming ability among children in Bangladesh: A cross sectional survey
Most children in Bangladesh report being able to swim 25 meters and learning it by middle childhood. Reported NASA is higher for males than females and for rural children than urban children. High rates of swimming appear to be achievable in the absence of pools and a swim-teaching industry. This may facilitate development of a low cost, national drowning prevention program with swimming an integral part
Willingness to administer mouth-to-mouth ventilation in a first response program in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Timely mouth-to-mouth ventilation is critical to resuscitate drowning victims. While drowning is frequent, there are no lay persons trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in rural Bangladesh. As part of a feasibility study to create a first response system in a conservative Islamic village environment, a pilot was undertaken to examine willingness to provide mouth-to-mouth ventilation for drowning resuscitation. METHODS: A qu…
Diarrhoea and smoking: An analysis of decades of observational data from Bangladesh
The aetiology and severity of diarrhoeal disease differed between smokers and non-smokers in our sample. However, we found no dose-response relationship between disease severity and the number of cigarettes smoked per day
Pattern of Road Traffic Injuries in Rural Bangladesh: Burden Estimates and Risk Factors
Globally, road traffic injury (RTI) causes 1.3 million deaths annually. Almost 90% of all RTI deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. RTI is one of the leading causes of death in Bangladesh; the World Health Organization estimated that it kills over 21,000 people in the country annually. This study describes the current magnitude and risk factors of RTI for different age groups in rural Bangladesh. A household census was carried out in …
Impact of First Aid on Treatment Outcomes for Non-Fatal Injuries in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from an Injury and Demographic Census
Non-fatal injuries have a significant impact on disability, productivity, and economic cost, and first-aid can play an important role in improving non-fatal injury outcomes. Data collected from a census conducted as part of a drowning prevention project in Bangladesh was used to quantify the impact of first-aid provided by trained and untrained providers on non-fatal injuries. The census covered approximately 1.2 million people from 7 sub-distric…
Epidemiology of Drowning in Bangladesh: An Update
Over one-quarter of deaths among 1-4 year-olds in Bangladesh were due to drowning in 2003, and the proportion increased to 42% in 2011. This study describes the current burden and risk factors for drowning across all demographics in rural Bangladesh. A household survey was carried out in 51 union parishads of rural Bangladesh between June and November 2013, covering 1.17 million individuals. Information on fatal and nonfatal drowning events was c…
Caregiver Supervision Practices and Risk of Childhood Unintentional Injury Mortality in Bangladesh
Unintentional injury-related mortality rate, including drowning among children under five, is disproportionately higher in low- and middle-income countries. The evidence links lapse of supervision with childhood unintentional injury deaths. We determined the relationship between caregiver supervision and unintentional injury mortality among children under five in rural Bangladesh. We conducted a nested, matched, case-control study within the coho…
Small Firms’ Formalisation: The Stick Treatment
Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, Bangladesh being no exception. The informal status of many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore impacts the provision of public goods. The literature on encouraging formalisation has predominantly focused on reducing the direct costs of formalisation and has found negligible impacts of such policies. In this paper, we focus on a stick intervention, which to the best…
Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending
Complexity in Implementing Community Drowning Reduction Programs in Southern Bangladesh: A Process Evaluation Protocol
Living and geographical conditions in Bangladesh expose children to a high risk of drowning. Two programs operating in the Barishal Division of Bangladesh aim to reduce drowning risk through the provision of crèches (Anchal) and swim and rescue classes (SwimSafe). Anchal provides a safe environment with early childhood education to children aged 1−5 years old, while SwimSafe teaches children aged 6−10 years old basic swimming and rescue skills. D…
Burden of Lesser-Known Unintentional Non-Fatal Injuries in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Large-Scale Population-Based Study
Around 90% of all fatal and non-fatal unintentional injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The magnitude of unintentional injuries is unclear due to limited research and data. This paper describes the burden of lesser-known injuries (LKIs-cut injuries, unintentional poisoning, machine injuries, electrocution, injury by blunt objects, and suffocation) in rural Bangladesh, using data from the Saving of Lives from Drowning (SoLi…
Context of water transport related drownings in Bangladesh: A qualitative study
There are some immediate measures that can be implemented, with some monitoring and accountability processes for water transport safety. However, there is need for robust data to quantify transport related drowning, making a case for prioritization and action by relevant stakeholder such as government and transport providers
Working to stay healthy’, health-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh’s urban slums: A qualitative study
Health seeking behaviour of slum dwellers of Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh is based on competing priorities, where quick and effective care is key, focussed on the ability to work and generate income. This takes place in a fragmented healthcare system characterised by mistrust of providers, and where navigation is informed by word-of-mouth experiences of peers. Improving health in this context demands a comprehensive and integrated approach to hea…
Investigating the process of evidence-informed health policymaking in Bangladesh: A systematic review
Over the last four decades, Bangladesh has made considerable improvements in population health, this is in part due to the use of evidence to inform policymaking. This systematic review aims to better understand critical factors that have facilitated the diffusion of scientific evidence into multiple phases of health policymaking in Bangladesh. To do this an existing policy framework designed by Shiffman and Smith in 2007, was used to extract and…
Rapid Assessment of Price Instability and Paucity of Medicines and Protection for Covid-19 Across Asia: Findings and Public Health Implications for the Future
Background: Countries have introduced a variety of measures to prevent and treat COVID-19 with medicines and personal protective equipment (PPE), with some countries adopting preventative strategies earlier than others. However, there has been considerable controversy surrounding some treatments. This includes hydroxychloroquine where the initial hype and misinformation lead to shortages, price rises and suicides. Price rises and shortages have a…
Trends and Determinants of EBF among Adolescent Children Born to Adolescent Mothers in Rural Bangladesh
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) has proven benefits for both mothers and infants; however, adolescent mothers have poor EBF practices globally. In Bangladesh, the practice of EBF among adolescent mothers remains unexplored. The aim of our study was to understand the EBF practices among adolescent mothers and their determinants in both the Health and Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) system areas of the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Resea…
Medicine (28 works) · Environmental health (24 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (14 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Public health (12 works) · Poison control (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Injury prevention (10 works)