Rasheda Khanam
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6045482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rasheda Khanam |
| NOMBRES | Rasheda |
| APELLIDO | Khanam |
| FIRMA | KHANAM R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1130-2357 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Persistent postpartum depressive symptoms and developmental impairment in Bangladeshi children
Background: Optimal child development across cognitive, language, and motor domains is essential for long-term health and well-being. Postpartum depression has been linked to adverse child developmental outcomes, but evidence on the impact of persistent postpartum depressive symptoms (PPDS) across these domains and over time remains limited, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: We retrieved data from the Alliance for Materna…
Determinants of human milk lactoferrin concentrations in rural Bangladesh
Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein in human milk (HM) that reduces the risk of neonatal sepsis. Data from low- and middle-income countries regarding the determinants of HM lactoferrin concentration is limited. Our objectives were to assess how HM lactoferrin concentrations change over time and identify factors associated with lactoferrin concentration. From a pregnancy cohort in Sylhet, Bangladesh, we enrolled 99 women to join the lactat…
Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (Momi) Consortium
Background: The Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (MOMI) Consortium aims to define biological mechanisms associated with preterm birth, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, and stillbirth. Globally, the burden of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) is highest in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The MOMI Consortium consists of six different LMIC sites established by The Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement in Banglades…
Prevalence and risk factors for anaemia during pregnancy in Sylhet district of Bangladesh
Background: Anaemia during pregnancy poses a major public health problem globally, with reported prevalences ranging from approximately 5.2% to 65.7%. A significant portion of this burden is borne by low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to determine the prevalence of anaemia during pregnancy and identify the factors associated with anaemia in the third trimester of pregnancy in a cohort of women in the rural Sylhet district, Bangladesh. Met…
The relation between social media use and novel psychoactive substance use among adolescents – the mediating role of internalizing and externalizing behaviors
This study explores whether internalizing and externalizing behaviors mediate the association between adolescent social media use and novel psychoactive substance (NPS) use in Australia, addressing a gap where counterfactual mediation methods and NPS use have been rarely applied. The study sample included 1605 adolescents from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children. We assessed adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems using t…
Food safety knowledge among adult consumers in Bangladesh
Purpose Since the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on all facets of civilisation around the world, including food safety, this study aimed to determine and compare the pre-COVID and post-COVID food safety knowledge of Bangladeshi consumers and their association with sociodemographic variables. Design/methodology/approach The current study performed a cross-sectional survey of 503 consumers who prepared food at least 2–4 times per week t…
Childhood IQ and adolescent health behavior
This study investigates whether cognitive ability in early childhood predicts adolescent health-related and risky behaviors, independent of schooling and socioeconomic background. Using longitudinal data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), we link matrix reasoning scores from ages 6 to 10 to health behaviors at age 16/17. Behaviors include substance use, unsafe driving, nutrition, dental hygiene, …
Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors in children and adolescents
This study provides useful insight into socioeconomic inequalities and health behavior outcomes in children and adolescents. These findings stress the need for tailored interventions designed to improve the health behaviors of families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Additionally, addressing unhealthy dietary behaviors, such as the higher consumption of sweet and savory foods among children from higher SES backgrounds, is equally critical. …
Exploring maternal health, lifestyle, and socioeconomic influences on childhood obesity in Australia
This study highlights the utility of LCA in identifying maternal factors influencing childhood obesity and underscores the importance of promoting maternal health, lifestyle, and dietary improvements to mitigate obesity risks in children. Targeted interventions addressing high-risk maternal profiles could be instrumental in reducing childhood obesity prevalence
Asymmetric effects of long-term war on human resource development in Af…ghanistan
This study explores the effects of war on human resource development in Afghanistan using non-linear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) and asymmetric causality analysis. The results of the NARDL bound test support an asymmetric long-run relationship between predictors. It reveals that positive and negative shocks from the per capita cost of war, child mortality rate, and population growth rate asymmetrically affect the school enrollment rat…
Folate deficiency in pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth
Background: Preterm birth (PTB) and its complications are important public health problems. Its aetiology is multifactorial and involves both modifiable and non-modifiable factors. Among the modifiable risk factors, micronutrient deficiencies, including maternal folate deficiency, are increasingly being studied in PTB. In this study, we estimated the prevalence of folate deficiency during pregnancy and examined its association with PTB among rura…
The efficacy of government strategies to control the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the efficacy of government policy directions in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by employing a panel of 22 countries throughout the 2020-second quarter of 2022. Design/methodology/approach The panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is employed to examine this phenomenon and to investigate the long-run effects of government policy decisions on infection and mortality rates from the pand…
Socioeconomic status and health behavior in children and adolescents
Socioeconomic status affects individuals’ health behaviors and contributes to a complex relationship between health and development. Due to this complexity, the relationship between SES and health behaviors is not yet fully understood. This literature review, therefore, aims to assess the association between socioeconomic status and health behaviors in childhood and adolescence. Preferred Reporting for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis protocol…
The creation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children aged 0–3 years
INTRODUCTION: With the ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an increased emphasis on early childhood development (ECD) and well-being. The WHO led Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) project aims to provide population and programmatic level measures of ECD for 0-3 years that are valid, reliable and have psychometrically stable performance across geographical, cultural and language contexts. This paper reports on the …
Association of maternal physical and mental health characteristics with the hazard of having any medical condition or disability in Australian children
Any long-term medical condition or disability among children is a significant health issue. This study measured the incidence rate of any medical condition or disability among children from a nationally representative birth cohort, then used the random effect parametric survival regression model to assess whether the hazard of any medical condition or disability in children is associated with maternal physical and mental health characteristics (o…
Food insecurity and health outcome nexus
Extending social and economic protection towards health coverage and basic consumption is suggested as an immediate action to save lives and ensure productivity of the informal workers. Besides, an increase in income and ensuring decent working conditions are also recommended for the health, safety and satisfaction of workers working in informal sector enterprises
Clustering of lifestyle and health behaviours in Australian adolescents and associations with obesity, self-rated health and quality of life
The study offers novel insights into latent class classification through the utilisation of different lifestyles and health-related behaviours of adolescents to identify characteristics of vulnerable groups concerning obesity, general health status and quality of life. This classification strategy may help health policy makers to target vulnerable groups and develop appropriate interventions
The health consequences of civil wars
This study examines the effects of long-run civil wars on healthcare, which is an important component of human capital development and their causality nexus in Afghanistan using the MVAR (modified vector autoregressive) approach and the Granger non-causality model covering data period 2002Q3-2020Q4. The primary results support a significant long-run relationship between variables, while the results of the MVAR model indicate the per capita cost o…
Environmental consequence of Australian agricultural trade
Link between environmental degradation and agricultural trade balance (ATB) is an under investigated issue. This article, therefore, investigates the issue for Australia using the data of 1988–2021. In this investigation when a linear model is applied, support for short‐run impact is revealed. However, linear model is unable to explore the asymmetry of the relationship. Therefore, to assess the asymmetry a nonlinear model is applied. The latter m…
Sero-prevalence and risk factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 infection in women and children in a rural district of Bangladesh
Background: Bangladesh reported its first COVID-19 case on March 8, 2020. Despite lockdowns and promoting behavioural interventions, as of December 31, 2021, Bangladesh reported 1.5 million confirmed cases and 27 904 COVID-19-related deaths. To understand the course of the pandemic and identify risk factors for SARs-Cov-2 infection, we conducted a cohort study from November 2020 to December 2021 in rural Bangladesh. Methods: After obtaining infor…
Machine learning prediction of gestational age from metabolic screening markers resistant to ambient temperature transportation
Background: Knowledge of gestational age is critical for guiding preterm neonatal care. In the last decade, metabolic gestational dating approaches emerged in response to a global health need; because in most of the developing world, accurate antenatal gestational age estimates are not feasible. These methods initially developed in North America have now been externally validated in two studies in developing countries, however, require shipment o…
Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries
BACKGROUND: Despite the declining trends worldwide, infant and child mortality rates are still high in many African countries. These high rates are problematic; therefore, this study attempts to explore the contributing factors that cause high infant and child mortality rates in 14 African countries using panel data for the period of 2000-2018. In particular, the role globalisation is explored. METHODS: The panel corrected standard error (PCSE), …
Socioeconomic inequalities in teenage pregnancy in Nigeria
There is a need for targeted intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy among low socioeconomic status women in Nigeria. The intervention should break the intergenerational cycle of low socioeconomic status that make teenagers' susceptible to unintended pregnancy. Economic empowerment is recommended, as empowered girls are better prepared to handle reproductive health issues. Moreover, religious bodies, parents and schools should provide counsellin…
A gender-specific assessment of tobacco use risk factors
This study identified gender-specific factors contributing to the risk of tobacco usage in Pakistani adults, suggesting that policy interventions to curb tobacco consumption in Pakistan should be tailored to specific population sub-groups based on their sociodemographic and psychosocial features
Environmental kuznets curve and causal links between environmental degradation and selected socioeconomic indicators in Bangladesh
Family Income and Child Cognitive and Noncognitive Development in Australia
This article investigates whether family income affects children's cognitive and noncognitive development by exploiting comprehensive information from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. We include variables that represent parental investment, parental stress, and neighborhood characteristics to examine if these factors mediate the effects of income. Using dynamic panel data, we find that family income is significantly associated with …
Mental health services use among adolescent bullying victims in Australia
Influence of food safety concerns on safe food purchasing at rural and urban consumers in Bangladesh
Mental health service use in Australia
The efficacy of government strategies to control the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the efficacy of government policy directions in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by employing a panel of 22 countries throughout the 2020-second quarter of 2022. Design/methodology/approach The panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is employed to examine this phenomenon and to investigate the long-run effects of government policy decisions on infection and mortality rates from the pand…
Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh
Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of four activities: ‘study only’, ‘study and work’, ‘neither work nor study’ and ‘work only’. The results of the multinomial logit model show that being a first-born child increases the probability of work as the prime activity, or at least a combination of school and work, rather than schooling only. The results c…
The Effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling for Recruiting Males Who have Sex with Males in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Impact of Childhood Malnutrition on Schooling
This paper examines the impact of childhood malnutrition on schooling performance in rural Bangladesh. The results reveal that malnourished children are less likely to enrol in school on time and achieve an age-appropriate grade by 26 percentage points and 31 percentage points, respectively. Other important determinants of schooling outcomes include infrastructure and education level of parents. One major contribution of this paper is the control…
Family Income and Child Cognitive and Noncognitive Development in Australia
This article investigates whether family income affects children's cognitive and noncognitive development by exploiting comprehensive information from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. We include variables that represent parental investment, parental stress, and neighborhood characteristics to examine if these factors mediate the effects of income. Using dynamic panel data, we find that family income is significantly associated with …
Understanding biological mechanisms underlying adverse birth outcomes in developing countries
OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI study aims to seek for biomarkers as predictors of important pregnancy-related outcomes, and establish a biobank in developing countries for future research as new methods and technologies become available. METHODS: AMANHI is using harmonised protocols to enrol 3000 women in early pregnancies (8-19 weeks of gestation) for population-based follow-up in pregnancy up to 42 days postpartum in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Tanzania, …
Family Income and Child Cognitive Development
The association between childhood outcomes and family income has gained enormous attention from academics, researchers, and policymakers in recent years because understanding the socioeconomic gradient in child development is important for uncovering the mechanisms through which intergenerational transmission of poverty takes place, as well as for formulating policies to help children reach their full potential. A considerable literature has show…
Impact of integrating a postpartum family planning program into a community-based maternal and newborn health program on birth spacing and preterm birth in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Short birth intervals are associated with an increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. However, reduction of rates of short birth intervals is challenging in low-resource settings where majority of the women deliver at home with limited access to family planning services immediately after delivery. This study examines the feasibility of integrating a post-partum family planning intervention package within a community-based materna…
Can facility delivery reduce the risk of intrapartum complications-related perinatal mortality? Findings from a cohort study
BACKGROUND: Intrapartum complications increase the risk of perinatal deaths. However, population-based data from developing countries assessing the contribution of intrapartum complications to perinatal deaths is scarce. METHODS: Using data from a cohort of pregnant women followed between 2011 and 2013 in Bangladesh, this study examined the rate and types of intrapartum complications, the association of intrapartum complications with perinatal mo…
Health care expenditure and health outcome nexus
BACKGROUND: The total health expenditure (as a percentage of GDP) and health outcomes in the region of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are lower than that of the OECD region and the world. This study investigated the relationship between different types of healthcare expenditures (public, private and total) and three main health status outcomes - life expectancy at birt…
Levels and correlates of nutritional status of women of childbearing age in rural Bangladesh
Objective The present study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for malnutrition in a population-based cohort of women of childbearing age in rural Bangladesh. Design A cross-sectional study that collected pre-pregnancy weight, height, and data on selected risk factors for nutritional status of women. Setting The study was conducted in Sylhet District of Bangladesh. Subjects Study subjects included 13 230 non-pregnant women of childbearin…
Mental health service use in Australia
Double burden of underweight and overweight among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh
Objective: Bangladesh, like many emerging economies of South-East Asia, has started to experience a double burden of continuing high rates of undernutrition and increasing rates of overweight and obesity. A lack of assessment of the nutritional shift leaves a gap in current policies: the growing overweight and obesity is yet to be addressed. The present paper investigates the change in nutritional status, particularly the shift in BMI, of Banglad…
Combining Microfinance and Health in Reducing Poverty-Driven Healthcare Costs
The role of microfinance in alleviating poverty and poor health is significant. Its health programs have been shown to improve healthcare utilisation and strengthen a healthcare system. In the Philippines, microfinance’s widespread presence is seen as instrumental in achieving the objectives of Healthy Philippines 2022, particularly in reducing poverty-driven healthcare costs. However, little is known on how microfinance can reduce the cost of he…
Suicidality, mental disorder and the utilization of mental health services among Australian adolescents
Association of maternal prenatal selenium concentration and preterm birth
BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association of maternal Se concentrations during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large number of samples collected from diverse populations. METHODS: Gestational duration data and maternal plasma or serum samples of 9946 singleton live births were obtained from 17 geographically diverse study cohorts. …
Adolescents’ time allocation and skill production
Using Amanhi-ACT cohorts for external validation of Iowa new-born metabolic profiles based models for postnatal gestational age estimation
BACKGROUND: Globally, 15 million infants are born preterm and another 23.2 million infants are born small for gestational age (SGA). Determining burden of preterm and SGA births, is essential for effective planning, modification of health policies and targeting interventions for reducing these outcomes for which accurate estimation of gestational age (GA) is crucial. Early pregnancy ultrasound measurements, last menstrual period and post-natal ne…
Clustering of asthma and related comorbidities and their association with maternal health during pregnancy
Using LCA analysis, this study improved a classification strategy for children with asthma and related morbidities to identify the most vulnerable groups within a population-based sample
The private returns to education in rural Bangladesh
Sero-prevalence and risk factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 infection in women and children in a rural district of Bangladesh
Background: Bangladesh reported its first COVID-19 case on March 8, 2020. Despite lockdowns and promoting behavioural interventions, as of December 31, 2021, Bangladesh reported 1.5 million confirmed cases and 27 904 COVID-19-related deaths. To understand the course of the pandemic and identify risk factors for SARs-Cov-2 infection, we conducted a cohort study from November 2020 to December 2021 in rural Bangladesh. Methods: After obtaining infor…
Machine learning prediction of gestational age from metabolic screening markers resistant to ambient temperature transportation
Background: Knowledge of gestational age is critical for guiding preterm neonatal care. In the last decade, metabolic gestational dating approaches emerged in response to a global health need; because in most of the developing world, accurate antenatal gestational age estimates are not feasible. These methods initially developed in North America have now been externally validated in two studies in developing countries, however, require shipment o…
Socio-economic factors affecting high infant and child mortality rates in selected African countries
BACKGROUND: Despite the declining trends worldwide, infant and child mortality rates are still high in many African countries. These high rates are problematic; therefore, this study attempts to explore the contributing factors that cause high infant and child mortality rates in 14 African countries using panel data for the period of 2000-2018. In particular, the role globalisation is explored. METHODS: The panel corrected standard error (PCSE), …
Socioeconomic inequalities in teenage pregnancy in Nigeria
There is a need for targeted intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy among low socioeconomic status women in Nigeria. The intervention should break the intergenerational cycle of low socioeconomic status that make teenagers' susceptible to unintended pregnancy. Economic empowerment is recommended, as empowered girls are better prepared to handle reproductive health issues. Moreover, religious bodies, parents and schools should provide counsellin…
A gender-specific assessment of tobacco use risk factors
This study identified gender-specific factors contributing to the risk of tobacco usage in Pakistani adults, suggesting that policy interventions to curb tobacco consumption in Pakistan should be tailored to specific population sub-groups based on their sociodemographic and psychosocial features
Environmental kuznets curve and causal links between environmental degradation and selected socioeconomic indicators in Bangladesh
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