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Zahid Memon
Researcher at Aga Khan University
Publications - 36
Citations - 883
Zahid Memon is an academic researcher from Aga Khan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 28 publications receiving 747 citations. Previous affiliations of Zahid Memon include Allama Iqbal Medical College.
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Improvement of perinatal and newborn care in rural Pakistan through community-based strategies: a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial
Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Sajid Bashir Soofi,Simon Cousens,Shah Mohammad,Zahid Memon,Imran Q. Ali,Asher Feroze,Farrukh Raza,Amanullah Khan,Steve Wall,Jose Martines +10 more
TL;DR: The results support the scale-up of preventive and promotive maternal and newborn interventions through community health workers and emphasise the need for attention to issues of programme management and coverage for such initiatives to achieve maximum potential.
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Implementing community-based perinatal care: results from a pilot study in rural Pakistan
Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Zahid Memon,Sajid Bashir Soofi,Muhammad Suhail Salat,Simon Cousens,Jose Martines +5 more
TL;DR: Improved stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates observed indicate that community health workers (i.e. LHWs and Dais) can be effective in implementing a community and outreach package that leads to improved home care practices by families, increased care-seeking behaviour and greater utilization of skilled care providers.
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Coverage and quality of antenatal care provided at primary health care facilities in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
TL;DR: The coverage and quality of the antenatal care services in ‘Punjab’ are extremely compromised and only half of the expected pregnancies are enrolled and out of those 1/3 drop out in follow-up visits.
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Impact of a community-based perinatal and newborn preventive care package on perinatal and neonatal mortality in a remote mountainous district in Northern Pakistan
TL;DR: The implementation of a set of low cost community-based intervention package within the health system settings in a mountainous region of Pakistan was found to be both feasible and beneficial and had a significant impact in reduction of the burden of perinatal and neonatal mortality.
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Psychological impact of COVID-19 and lock down measures: An online cross-sectional multicounty study on Asian university students.
Karuthan Chinna,Sheela Sundarasen,Heba Bakr Khoshaim,Kamilah Kamaludin,Mohammad Nurunnabi,Gul Mohammad Baloch,Syed Far Abid Hossain,Areej Sukayt,Nevi Dalina,Usha Rajagopalan,Ramesh Kumar,Zahid Memon +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between April and May 2020 in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, India and Indonesia to examine the psychological impact of lockdown measures on university students in Asia.