Rukhsana Haider

Biographic Data

ID7599147
NAMERukhsana Haider
GIVEN NAMESRukhsana
FAMILY NAMEHaider
SIGNATUREHAIDER R
AFFILIATIONSChild Health Research Foundation
ORCID0000-0001-5438-8192
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • The effect of electronic job aid assisted one‐to‐one counselling to support exclusive breastfeeding among 0–5‐month‐old infants in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessSk Masum Billah, Tarana E Ferdous et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months has established benefits, yet had slow improvements globally. Little is known about electronic job aid-assisted counselling to support EBF. As a secondary outcome of a cluster randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, we assessed the effect of electronic job aid-supported nutrition counselling and practical demonstration on EBF. We randomized pregnant women to one of five study arms in the tri…

  • Breastfeeding practices after a counselling intervention for factory workers in Bangladesh

    Open AccessRukhsana Haider, Virginia Thorley et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Breastfeeding may be particularly challenging for female factory workers who have long working hours and inadequate access to health information and care. In Chattogram, Bangladesh, a peer counselling intervention was undertaken to improve infant feeding practices of factory workers. Counselling started during pregnancy and continued until children were 18 months old. This article presents the results of a cross-sectional survey undertaken during…

  • The principles and practices of nutrition advocacy

    Open AccessDavid Pelletier, Rukhsana Haider et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    Advocacy represents an intervention into complex, dynamic and highly contextual socio-political systems, in which strategies and tactics must be adjusted on a continual basis in light of rapidly changing conditions, reactions from actors and feedback. For this reason, the practice of advocacy is often considered more art than science. However, capacities and practices for advocacy can be strengthened by sharing and analysing experiences in varyin…

  • Key principles to improve programmes and interventions in complementary feeding

    Open AccessChessa K Lutter, Lora L Iannotti et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    Although there are some examples of successful complementary feeding programmes to promote healthy growth and prevent stunting at the community level, to date there are few, if any, examples of successful programmes at scale. A lack of systematic process and impact evaluations on pilot projects to generate lessons learned has precluded scaling up of effective programmes. Programmes to effect positive change in nutrition rarely follow systematic p…

  • Orientación sobre lactancia materna en un hospital para enfermedades diarreicas

    Open AccessRukhsana Haider, M A Islam et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…1997

    Se adiestró a consejeras en materia de lactancia materna para que dieran asesoramiento a las madres de lactantes parcialmente amamantados y hospitalizados por diarrea, con el fin de lograr que las madres iniciaran la lactancia materna exclusiva durante su permanencia en el hospital. Se asignó de forma aleatoria a lactantes (n = 250) de 12 meses de edad o menos a un grupo de intervención y a un grupo testigo. Las madres del grupo de intervención f…

  • Is nutritional status deteriorating in Bangladesh

    Open AccessSK Roy, Rukhsana HaiderARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning1988

    SK ROY, R HAIDER; Is nutritional status deteriorating in Bangladesh?, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 3, Issue 4, 1 December 1988, Pages 325–328, https