Sohana Shafique

Biographic Data

ID5488123
NAMESohana Shafique
GIVEN NAMESSohana
FAMILY NAMEShafique
SIGNATURESHAFIQUE S
AFFILIATIONSInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
ORCID0000-0002-5234-8522
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Food systems determinants of nutritional health and wellbeing in urban informal settlements

    Open AccessArun S Roy, Anne-Sophie Roy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023

    INTRODUCTION: Increasing food and nutritional inequities are apparent in urban settings across Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), along with nutrition transition towards ultra-processed diets high in fat, sugar, and salt. In urban informal settlements, characterized by insecurity and inadequate housing and infrastructure, food systems dynamics and their nutritional implications are poorly understood. OBJECTIVES: This paper explores the foo…

  • Change in nutritional status of urban slum children before and after the first Covid-19 wave in Bangladesh

    Open AccessHayman Win, Sohana Shafique et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The onset of COVID-19 severely disrupted economies and increased acute household food insecurity in developing countries. Consequently, a global rise in childhood undernutrition was predicted, especially among vulnerable populations, but primary evidence on actual changes in nutritional status remained scarce. In this paper, we assessed shifts in nutritional status of urban slum children in Bangladesh pre- and post- the country’s first wave of CO…

  • Examining pulmonary TB patient management and healthcare workers exposures in two public tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Saiful Islam, Sayera Banu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Implementation of tuberculosis (TB) infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines in public tertiary care general hospitals remain challenging due to limited evidence of pulmonary TB (PTB) patients’ duration of hospital stay and management. To fill this evidence gap, this study examined adult PTB patient management, healthcare workers’ (HCWs) exposures and IPC practices in two public tertiary care hospitals in Bangladesh.Between December 2017…

  • Levels, trends and socio-demographic determinants of infant and under-five mortalities in and around slum areas of Dhaka city, Bangladesh

    Open AccessAbdur Razzaque, Razib Chowdhury et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Infant and child mortality are often used to monitor the progress of national population health programs. The data for this study was collected from selected urban slums where icddr,b has maintained the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS). Using the HDSS database, 6,666 married women were selected and interviewed in 2018 to collect data on socioeconomic status, pregnancy history and safe motherhood practices. The study examined leve…

  • Health-Related Quality of Life among Rural-Urban Migrants Living in Dhaka Slums

    Open AccessKamrun Nahar Koly, Md Saiful Islam et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The findings suggest that available urban social protection programs should include a comprehensive social safety net for the improvement of the slum infrastructure as well as proper health care and risk mitigation plans at workplaces

  • A place-based analysis of Covid-19 risk factors in Bangladesh urban slums

    Open AccessShaikh Mehdi Hasan, Susmita Das et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The findings highlight the practical constraints on implementing, in slums, the conventional COVID19 management approaches of social distancing, regular hand washing, and not sharing spaces. It has implications for the management of future respiratory epidemics

  • Home fortification with calcium reduces Hb response to iron among anaemic Bangladeshi infants consuming a new multi-micronutrient powder formulation

    Open AccessWaqas Ullah Khan, Sohana Shafique et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective To investigate whether the recommended dietary intake of Ca in anaemic infants compromises the expected Hb response, via home fortification with a new Ca- and Fe-containing SprinklesTM micronutrient powder (MNP). Design A double-blind, randomized controlled, 2-month trial was conducted in Bangladesh. Infants were randomized to one of two MNP intervention groups containing Fe and other micronutrients, with or without Ca. Hb, anthropometr…