Bangladesh and Health
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)
- D. Te Lintelo; L. Haddad; R. Lakshman / Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
- The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are fa...
- Men’s Knowledge and Practices of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health in Rural Bangladesh: Do they differ from Women?
- S Salam / BRAC Education Programme, 2012
- Male partner involvement in maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) care has been around for a long time but nothing has been done since nobody has figured out how to do it on a large scale. We assessed men’s knowledge and the...
- Bangladesh needs to increase the supply of medicines in public facilities so the poor can utilise maternal healthcare
- J. Chandrasiri; C. Anuranga; R. Wickramasinghe / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- The Government of Bangladesh is committed to ensuring access of its population to adequate healthcare services. However, substantial inequalities exist in maternal and child health outcomes in Bangladesh, with child and maternal morta...
- Costs of Providing Maternal, Newborn and Child Healthcare: Estimates from BRAC’s IMNCS Programme in Rural Bangladesh Mohammad Nasir
- M khan / BRAC Education Programme, 2012
- Community level healthcare activities are important in low income countries like Bangladesh where the coverage of formal healthcare systems is low. Keeping pace with the national strategies and MDG targets, BRAC, has initiated a progr...
- Liberalising health services in south Asia: implications for Bangladesh
- F. Khatun / Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2012
- South Asian countries have witnessed significant shift in the structure of their economy during the last few decades, in terms of the dominance of the services sector compared to the traditional sectors such as agriculture and industr...
- Bangladeshi public maternal healthcare facilities are operating at optimal levels and further expansion is necessary
- C. Anuranga; S.D. Alwis; G. Kasthuri / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- Bangladesh has made substantial progress since the 1970s in expanding the coverage of maternal healthcare services, yet maternal mortality remains high, as available but limited data suggest. In this respect, to fill the gap need for ...
- Disease Profile and Death Pattern Among Children Admitted in a Medical College Hospital
- M Hasan 2012
- Background: An understanding of epidemiological trend in hospital admissions, including diseases and death pattern, is critical for health care planning, appropriate resource allocation & improving existing services facilities. Ob...
- A Rare and Clinically Important Blood Group- Bombay Blood Group
- F Chowdhury 2011
- Bombay blood group is the rarest blood group in the world. It is a blood group which shows absence of A,B,H antigens on red cells and presence of anti- A, anti-B and potent wide thermal range anti-H antibodies in serum reacting with a...
- How Accurately Physicians Measure Blood Pressure- An Observational Study in Enam Medical College and Hospital, Savar
- R parvin 2011
- In this study, 100% doctors used aneroid type sphygmomanometer. Ninety percent of apparatus were without error. Ninety six percent of the BP cuff was of standard size. Twenty two percent of the doctors did not let the patient rest bef...
- Abdominal Tuberculosis -A Review
- D Sarkar 2011
- Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that hasplagued mankind since Neolithic times (8000 BC). In addition to the review of key papers, we undertook searches of electronic databases. For PubMed, the search items were â€...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Unnayan Onneshan
- The Institute aims to advance critical scholarship, promote inter-disciplinary dialogue and amplify grassroots perspectives in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities. The philosophy, ideas and actions of the organisation focus on pluralistic, participatory and sustainable development and seek to challenge the narrow theoretical and pol...
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- Research and training on health, population and nutrition in Bangladesh
- Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (JHPN)
- The quarterly Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (incorporating the Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research) publishes articles on maternal, child and family health and related issues of population and nutrition that are relevant to developing countries. Issues of fertility, child spacing, maternal and child nutrition, and specific common illnesses are integrally related to overall hea...
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- International centre for health research based in Bangladesh
