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Marufa Sultana
Researcher at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Publications - 72
Citations - 1386
Marufa Sultana is an academic researcher from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 59 publications receiving 837 citations. Previous affiliations of Marufa Sultana include Deakin University.
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Distribution and Determinants of Low Birth Weight in Developing Countries.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that delayed conception, advanced maternal age, and inadequate ANC visits had independent effects on the prevalence of LBW.
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Willingness-to-Pay for Community-Based Health Insurance among Informal Workers in Urban Bangladesh
Sayem Ahmed,Mohammad Enamul Hoque,Abdur Razzaque Sarker,Marufa Sultana,Ziaul Islam,Rukhsana Gazi,Jahangir A. M. Khan +6 more
TL;DR: Informal workers in urban areas thus are willing to pay for CBHI and socioeconomic differences explain the magnitude of WTP, and the policy maker might think introducing community-based model including public-community partnership model for healthcare financing of informal workers.
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Prevalence and Health Care-Seeking Behavior for Childhood Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh.
Abdur Razzaque Sarker,Marufa Sultana,Rashidul Alam Mahumud,Nurnabi Sheikh,Robert Van Der Meer,Alec Morton +5 more
TL;DR: The overall diarrhea prevalence among children <5 years old was found to be 5.71% and some factors found to significantly influence the health care–seeking pattern were age and sex of the children, nutritional score, age and education of mothers, wealth index, and access to electronic media.
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Prevalence and associated determinants of malaria parasites among Kenyan children
Marufa Sultana,Nurnabi Sheikh,Rashidul Alam Mahumud,Tania Jahir,Ziaul Islam,Abdur Razzaque Sarker,Abdur Razzaque Sarker +6 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of malaria showed an upward trend in terms of age, with the highest prevalence among children aged 11–14 years, and the need to focus on awareness programs to prevent malaria and to use existing knowledge in practice to control the malaria burden in Kenya is demonstrated.
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Prevalence, determinants and health care-seeking behavior of childhood acute respiratory tract infections in Bangladesh.
Marufa Sultana,Marufa Sultana,Abdur Razzaque Sarker,Abdur Razzaque Sarker,Nurnabi Sheikh,Raisul Akram,Nausad Ali,Rashidul Alam Mahumud,Nur H. Alam +8 more
TL;DR: Various factors, such as age and sex of the children, wealth index, the education of the mother, and household lifestyle factors were significantly associated with ARI prevalence and care-seeking behaviors.