Publications

Nurnabi Sheikh, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Touhidul Islam, Susan Howick, Alec Morton (2022). Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh.. International journal for equity in health.

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Md Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Jahangir A M Khan, Ziaul Islam, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sayem Ahmed (2022). Factors affecting the healthcare utilization from Shasthyo Suroksha Karmasuchi scheme among the below-poverty-line population in one subdistrict in Bangladesh: a cross sectional study.. BMC health services research.

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Trinh Manh Hung, Nguyen Van Hao, Lam Minh Yen, Angela McBride, Vu Quoc Dat, H. Rogier van Doorn, Huynh Thi Loan, Nguyen Thanh Phong, Martin J. Llewelyn, Behzad Nadjm, Sophie Yacoub, C. Louise Thwaites, Sayem Ahmed, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Hugo C Turner (2022). Direct Medical Costs of Tetanus, Dengue, and Sepsis Patients in an Intensive Care Unit in Vietnam. Frontiers in Public Health.

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Sylvia Szabo, Sayem Ahmed, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Malay Pramanik, Rashadul Islam, Ferdousi Zaman, John Km Kuwornu (2022). Remittances and food security in Bangladesh: an empirical country-level analysis.. Public health nutrition.

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Zelalem G Terfa, Sayem Ahmed, Jahangir Khan, Louis W Niessen (2022). Household Microenvironment and Under-Fives Health Outcomes in Uganda: Focusing on Multidimensional Energy Poverty and Women Empowerment Indices. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Ziaul Islam, Clas Rehnberg, Louis W Niessen, Jahangir A M Khan (2022). Assessing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments and their determinants in Bangladesh: evidence from the nationwide Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016.. International health.

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Mahfuzur Rahman, Rayhanul Islam, Sifat Parveen Sheikh, Nadia Sultana (2022). Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women ' s Undernutrition : Evidence from Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017 – 2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Gatien de Broucker, Sayem Ahmed, Md Wazed Ali, Jorge Martin Del Campo, Dagna Constenla, Bryan Patenaude, Md Jasim Uddin (2021). The economic burden of diarrhea in children under 5 years in Bangladesh. International journal of infectious diseases.

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Sayem Ahmed, Guibehi B. Koudou, Mäiwenn Bagot, François Drabo, Windtaré R. Bougma, Caisey Pulford, Moses Bockarie, Robert A. Harrison (2021). Health and economic burden estimates of snakebite management upon health facilities in three regions of southern Burkina Faso. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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Sayem Ahmed, Jahangir AM Khan (2021). Disseminating public health messages about second-hand smoking through mosque congregations in Bangladesh. The Lancet Global Health.

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Deborah Odihi, Gatien de Broucker, Zahid Hasan, Sayem Ahmed, Dagna Constenla, Jasim Uddin, Bryan Patenaude (2021). Contingent Valuation: A Pilot Study for Eliciting Willingness to Pay for a Reduction in Mortality From Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses for Children and Adults in Bangladesh.. Value in health regional issues.

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Gatien de Broucker, Sayem Ahmed, Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Jorge Martin Del Campo, Md Wazed Ali, Md Jasim Uddin, Dagna Constenla, Bryan Patenaude (2020). The economic burden of measles in children under five in Bangladesh. BMC Health Services Research.

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Md. Mehedi Hasan, Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes, Saifuddin Ahmed, Sayem Ahmed, Tuhin Biawas, Yaqoot Fatima, Md. Saimul Islam, Md Shahadut Hossain, Abdullah A. Mamun (2020). Meeting the Global Target in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Care Services in Lowand Middle-Income Countries. Global Health: Science and Practice.

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Sayem Ahmed (2020). Healthcare Financing Challenges and Opportunities to Achieving Universal Health Coverage in the Low- and Middle-Income Country Context. Karolinska Institutet.

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M.M. Hasan, F. Tasnim, M. Tariqujjaman, S. Ahmed, A. Cleary, A. Mamun (2020). Examining the prevalence, correlates and inequalities of undiagnosed hypertension in Nepal: a population-based cross-sectional study. BMJ open.

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Anita Sharif Chowdhury, Md Shakil Ahmed, Sayem Ahmed, Fouzia Khanam, Fariha Farjana, Saifur Reza, Shayla Islam, Akramul Islam, Jahangir A M Khan, Mahfuzar Rahman (2020). Estimating Catastrophic Costs due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Bangladesh. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.

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A.D. Alatawi, S. Ahmed, L. Niessen, J. Khan (2020). Erratum: Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings (Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (2019) 17: 17 DOI: 10.1186/s12962-019-0185-4). Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

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Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Montira J Pongsiri, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Sylvia Szabo (2020). Effect of extreme weather events on injury, disability, and death in Bangladesh. Climate and Development.

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Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Felix Roth, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Md Kamruzzaman, Md Zahid Hasan, Andrew J. Mirelman, Ziaul Islam, Louis W. Niessen, Clas Rehnberg, A. K.Azad Khan, Niklaus Gyr, Jahangir A.M. Khan (2020). Do employer-sponsored health insurance schemes affect the utilisation of medically trained providers and out-of-pocket payments among ready-made garment workers? A case-control study in Bangladesh. BMJ Open.

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Sayem Ahmed, Haribondhu Sarma, Zahid Hasan, Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Eric W Djimeu, Mduduzi N N Mbuya, Tahmeed Ahmed, Jahangir A M Khan (2020). Cost-effectiveness of a market-based home fortification of food with micronutrient powder programme in Bangladesh. Public Health Nutrition.

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Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Samia Laokri, Zerin Jannat, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Veronica Vargas, Jahangir A M Khan (2019). Technical efficiency of public district hospitals in Bangladesh: a data envelopment analysis. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

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Jahangir A M Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Mohammad Hafizur Rahman, Ziaul Islam, Clas Rehnberg, Louis W Niessen (2019). The effect of a community-based health insurance on the out-of-pocket payments for utilizing medically trained providers in Bangladesh.. International health.

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JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Tao Chen, Ewan M Tomeny, Louis W Niessen (2019). A Transparent Universal Health Coverage Index with Decomposition by Socioeconomic Groups: Application in Asian and African Settings.. Applied health economics and health policy.

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Sayem Ahmed, Md Tariqujjaman, Md Arafat Rahman, Md Zahid Hasan, Md Mehedi Hasan (2019). Inequalities in the prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension among Bangladeshi adults: evidence from a nationwide survey.. International journal for equity in health.

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Ahmed Alatawi, Sayem Ahmed, Louis Niessen, Jahangir Khan (2019). Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

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Md. Hasan, Fariha Tasnim, Md. Tariqujjaman, Sayem Ahmed (2019). Socioeconomic Inequalities of Undiagnosed Diabetes in a Resource-Poor Setting: Insights from the Cross-Sectional Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Sayem Ahmed, Zahid Hasan, Mary Maclennan, Farzana Dorin, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Mehedi Hasan, Shaikh Mehdi Hasan, Jahangir A M Khan (2019). Measuring the efficiency of health systems in Asia: a data envelopment analysis. BMJ Open.

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Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Marufa Sultana, Ziaul Islam, Andrew J. Mirelman, Clas Rehnberg, Jahangir A. M. Khan, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury (2018). Evaluating the implementation related challenges of Shasthyo Suroksha Karmasuchi (health protection scheme) of the government of Bangladesh: a study protocol. BMC Health Services Research.

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Abdur Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sayem Ahmed, Rashidul Mahumud, Alec Morton, Jahangir Khan (2018). Clients' Experience and Satisfaction of Utilizing Healthcare Services in a Community Based Health Insurance Program in Bangladesh. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin, Andrew J Mirelman, Ziaul Islam, Mohammad Hafizur Rahman, Louis W Niessen, Clas Rehnberg, Jahangir A. M. Khan (2018). The impact of community-based health insurance on the utilization of medically trained healthcare providers among informal workers in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE.

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Louis W Niessen, Diwakar Mohan, Jonathan K Akuoku, Andrew J Mirelman, Sayem Ahmed, Tracey P Koehlmoos, Antonio Trujillo, Jahangir Khan, David H Peters (2018). Tackling socioeconomic inequalities and non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries under the Sustainable Development agenda. The Lancet.

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Sayem Ahmed, Sylvia Szabo, Kristine Nilsen (2018). Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment in tropical deltas: evidence from the Mekong Delta region.. International journal for equity in health.

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Jahangir AM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Timothy G Evans (2018). Response to a comment on ‘Unravelling the socioeconomic gradient in the incidence of catastrophic health care expenditure'. Health Policy and Planning.

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Andrew J. Mirelman, Antonio J. Trujillo, Louis W. Niessen, Sayem Ahmed, Jahangir A.M. Khan, David H. Peters (2018). Household coping strategies after an adult noncommunicable disease death in Bangladesh. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

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Veronica Vargas, Sayem Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams (2018). Factors enabling comprehensive maternal health services in the benefits package of emerging financing schemes: A crosssectional analysis from 1990 to 2014. PLOS ONE.

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Ziaul Islam, Sayem Ahmed, Farzana Akter Dorin, M Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Ferdousi Zaman (2018). Costs of the Bangladesh Essential Health Service Package: 2016- 2022. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Bangladesh and World Health Organization (WHO).

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Sayem Ahmed, AR Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Md. Zahid MZ Hasan, AJ Andrew J Mirelman, JAM Jahangir A M Khan (2018). Adverse Selection in Community Based Health Insurance among Informal Workers in Bangladesh: An EQ-5D Assessment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Timothy G Evans (2017). Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and poverty related to out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Bangladesh-an estimation of financial risk protection of universal health coverage.. Health policy and planning.

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Aminur Rahman, Monjura Khatun Nisha, Tahmina Begum, Sayem Ahmed, Nurul Alam, Iqbal Anwar (2017). Trends, determinants and inequities of 4+ ANC utilisation in Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.

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Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nausad Ali, Sayem Ahmed, Ziaul Islam, Jahangir A. M. Khan, Abdur Razzaque Sarker (2017). The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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A.R. Sarker, M. Sultana, R.A. Mahumud, S. Ahmed, Z. Islam, A. Morton, J.A.M. Khan (2017). Determinants of enrollment of informal sector workers in cooperative based health scheme in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE.

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Andrew J. Mirelman, Sherri Rose, Jahangir AM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, David H. Peters, Louis W. Niessen, Antonio J. Trujillo (2016). The relationship between non-communicable disease occurrence and poverty—evidence from demographic surveillance in Matlab, Bangladesh. Health Policy and Planning.

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JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Mary Maclennan, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Hafizur Rahman (2016). Benefit incidence analysis of healthcare in Bangladesh - equity matters for universal health coverage.. Health policy and planning.

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Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Ziaul Islam, Rukhsana Gazi, Jahangir A.M. Khan (2016). Effects of occupational illness on labor productivity: A socioeconomic aspect of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh. Journal of Occupational Health.

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Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Ziaul Islam, Rukhsana Gazi, Jahangir A. M. Khan (2016). Willingness-to-Pay for Community-Based Health Insurance among Informal Workers in Urban Bangladesh. PLOS ONE.

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Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Hafizur Rahman, Ziaul Islam, Jahangir A. M. Khan (2016). Inequalities in Health Status from EQ-5D Findings: A Cross-Sectional Study in Low-Income Communities of Bangladesh. International Journal of Health Policy and Management.

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Veronica Vargas, Tahmina Begum, Sayem Ahmed, Owen Smith (2016). Fiscal space for health in Bangladesh : towards universal health coverage.

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Jahangir AM Khan, Sayem Ahmed (2016). Analyzing Benefit-Cost Ratio of Health Interventions for Improving Maternal and Child Mortality and Child Immunization in Bangladesh.

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Jahangir A.M. Khan, Antonio J. Trujillo, Sayem Ahmed, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee, Nurul Alam, Andrew J. Mirelman, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Louis Wilhelmus Niessen, David H. Peters (2015). Distribution of chronic disease mortality and deterioration in household socioeconomic status in rural Bangladesh: an analysis over a 24-year period. International Journal of Epidemiology.

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Sylvia Szabo, Md. Sarwar Hossain, W. Neil Adger, Zoe Matthews, Sayem Ahmed, Attila N. Lázár, Sate Ahmad (2015). Soil salinity, household wealth and food insecurity in tropical deltas: evidence from south-west coast of Bangladesh. Sustainability Science.

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Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Marufa Sultana, Sayem Ahmed, Wahid Ahmed, Jahangir AM Khan (2014). The impact of age and sex on healthcare expenditure of households in Bangladesh. SpringerPlus.

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Bidhan Krishna Sarker, Sayem Ahmed, Noushin Islam, Jahangir A.M. Khan (2013). Cost of behavior change communication channels of Manoshi -a maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

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Dr Sayem Ahmed, Robert Ford (2013). An example conference paper. In ICW.

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JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed (2013). Impact of educational intervention on willingness-to-pay for health insurance: A study of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh. Health Economics Review.

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Bidhan Krishna Sarker, Jonathan Higgins, Malay Kanti Mridha, Jannatul Ferdous, Sushil Kanti Dasgupta, Sayem Ahmed, Jahangir A.M. Khan, Laura Reichenbach (2012). Caesarean Delivery in Urban Slums of Dhaka City : Indications and Consequences.

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Bidhan K Sarker, Noushin Islam, Sayem Ahmed, Jahangir A.M. Khan (2011). Cost of behavior change communication channels of MANOSHI.

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