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Nazma Begum
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 75
Citations - 4327
Nazma Begum is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 69 publications receiving 3476 citations. Previous affiliations of Nazma Begum include International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh & World Health Organization.
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Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
Joshua A. Salomon,Theo Vos,Daniel R Hogan,Michael L. Gagnon,Mohsen Naghavi,Ali Mokdad,Nazma Begum,Razibuzzaman Shah,Muhammad Karyana,Soewarta Kosen,Mario Reyna Farje,Gilberto Moncada,Arup Dutta,Sunil Sazawal,Andrew Dyer,Jason F. S. Seiler,Victor Aboyans,Lesley Baker,Amanda J Baxter,Emelia J. Benjamin,Kavi Bhalla,Aref A. Bin Abdulhak,Fiona M. Blyth,Rupert R A Bourne,Tasanee Braithwaite,Peter Brooks,Traolach S. Brugha,Claire Bryan-Hancock,Rachelle Buchbinder,Peter Burney,Bianca Calabria,Honglei Chen,Sumeet S. Chugh,Rebecca Cooley,Michael H. Criqui,Marita Cross,Kaustubh Dabhadkar,Nabila Dahodwala,Adrian Davis,Louisa Degenhardt,Cesar Diaz-Torne,E. Ray Dorsey,Tim Driscoll,Karen Edmond,Alexis Elbaz,Majid Ezzati,Valery L. Feigin,Cleusa P. Ferri,Abraham D. Flaxman,Louise Flood,Marlene Fransen,Kana Fuse,Belinda J. Gabbe,Richard F. Gillum,Juanita A. Haagsma,James Harrison,Rasmus Havmoeller,Roderick J. Hay,Abdullah Hel-Baqui,Hans W. Hoek,Howard J. Hoffman,Emily Hogeland,Damian G Hoy,Deborah Jarvis,Ganesan Karthikeyan,Lisa M. Knowlton,Tim Lathlean,Janet L Leasher,Stephen S Lim,Steven E. Lipshultz,Alan D. Lopez,Rafael Lozano,Ronan A Lyons,Reza Malekzadeh,Wagner Marcenes,Lyn March,David J. Margolis,Neil McGill,John J. McGrath,George A. Mensah,Ana-Claire Meyer,Catherine Michaud,Andrew E. Moran,Rintaro Mori,Michele E. Murdoch,Luigi Naldi,Charles R. Newton,Rosana E. Norman,Saad B. Omer,Richard H. Osborne,Neil Pearce,Fernando Perez-Ruiz,Norberto Perico,Konrad Pesudovs,David Phillips,Farshad Pourmalek,Martin Prince,Jürgen Rehm,G. Remuzzi,Kathryn Richardson,Robin Room,Sukanta Saha,Uchechukwu Sampson,Lidia Sanchez-Riera,Maria Segui-Gomez,Saeid Shahraz,Kenji Shibuya,David Singh,Karen Sliwa,Emma Smith,Isabelle Soerjomataram,Timothy J. Steiner,Wilma A. Stolk,Lars Jacob Stovner,Christopher R. Sudfeld,Hugh R. Taylor,Imad M. Tleyjeh,Marieke J. van der Werf,Wendy L. Watson,David J. Weatherall,Robert G. Weintraub,Marc G. Weisskopf,Harvey Whiteford,James D. Wilkinson,Anthony D. Woolf,Zhi-Jie Zheng,Christopher J L Murray +126 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive re-estimation of disability weights for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 through a large-scale empirical investigation in which judgments about health losses associated with many causes of disease and injury were elicited from the general public in diverse communities through a new, standardised approach.
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Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on childhood mortality and nutrition in a rural area in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised trial.
Shams El Arifeen,D. M. Emdadul Hoque,Tasnima Akter,Muntasirur Rahman,Mohammad Enamul Hoque,Khadija Begum,Enayet K. Chowdhury,Rasheda Khan,Lauren S. Blum,Shakil Ahmed,M. Altaf Hossain,Ashraf Siddik,Nazma Begum,Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman,Twaha M. Haque,Sk Masum Billah,Mainul Islam,Reza Ali Rumi,Erin Law,ZA Motin Al-Helal,Abdullah H Baqui,Joanna Schellenberg,Taghreed Adam,Lawrence H. Moulton,Jean-Pierre Habicht,Robert W Scherpbier,Cesar G. Victora,Jennifer Bryce,Robert E. Black +28 more
TL;DR: Implementation of IMCI led to improved health-worker skills, health-system support, and family and community practices, translating into increased care-seeking for illnesses, and IMCI implementation had no effect on mortality within the timeframe of the assessment.
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Urinary tract infections in pregnancy in a rural population of Bangladesh: population-based prevalence, risk factors, etiology, and antibiotic resistance.
Anne C C Lee,Luke C. Mullany,Alain K. Koffi,Iftekhar Rafiqullah,Rasheda Khanam,Lian V. Folger,Mahmoodur Rahman,Dipak Kumar Mitra,Alain B. Labrique,Parul Christian,Parul Christian,Jamal Uddin,Parvez Ahmed,Salahuddin Ahmed,Arif Mahmud,Sushil Kanta Dasgupta,Nazma Begum,M. A. Quaiyum,Samir K. Saha,Abdullah H Baqui +19 more
TL;DR: There is a need for low-cost and accurate methods for UTI screening in pregnancy and efforts to address increasing rates of antibiotic resistance in LMIC.
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The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial
Shams El Arifeen,Luke C. Mullany,Rasheduzzaman Shah,Ishtiaq Mannan,Ishtiaq Mannan,Syed Moshfiqur Rahman,M Radwanur R Talukder,Nazma Begum,Ahmed Al-Kabir,Gary L. Darmstadt,Mathuram Santosham,Robert E. Black,Abdullah H Baqui,Abdullah H Baqui +13 more
TL;DR: Chlorhexidine cleansing of a neonate's umbilical cord can save lives, but further studies are needed to establish the best frequency with which to deliver the intervention.
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Population-based rates, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study
Imran Ahmed,Said M. Ali,Seeba Amenga-Etego,Shabina Ariff,Rajiv Bahl,Abdullah H Baqui,Nazma Begum,Nita Bhandari,Kiran Bhatia,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Godfrey Biemba,Saikat Deb,Usha Dhingra,Brinda Dube,Arup Dutta,Karen Edmond,Fabian Esamai,Wafaie W. Fawzi,Amit Kumar Ghosh,Peter Gisore,Caroline Grogan,Davidson H. Hamer,Julie M. Herlihy,Lisa Hurt,Muhammad Ilyas,Fyezah Jehan,Michel Kalonji,Jasmine Kaur,Rasheda Khanam,Betty R. Kirkwood,Aarti Kumar,Alok Kumar,Vishwajeet Kumar,Alexander Manu,Irene Marete,Honorati Masanja,Sarmila Mazumder,Usma Mehmood,Shambhavi Mishra,Dipak Kumar Mitra,Erick Mlay,Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan,Mamun Ibne Moin,Karim Muhammad,Alfa Muhihi,Sam Newton,Serge Ngaima,Andre Nguwo,Imran Nisar,Maureen O'Leary,John Otomba,Pawankumar Patil,M. A. Quaiyum,Mohammed Hefzur Rahman,Sunil Sazawal,Katherine Semrau,Caitlin Shannon,Emily R. Smith,Sajid Bashir Soofi,Seyi Soremekun,Venantius Sunday,Sunita Taneja,Antoinette Tshefu,Yaqub Wasan,Kojo Yeboah-Antwi,Sachiyo Yoshida,Anita K. M. Zaidi +66 more
TL;DR: The findings imply that programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia need to further intensify their efforts to reduce mortality rates, which continue to be high.