Bangladesh and Health
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- Parents’ beliefs and perceptions delay care-seeking for childhood pneumonia in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This report, produced by the Centre for Health and Population Research (ICDDR, B), outlines research conducted among parents in Matlab, Bangladesh, revealing how their beliefs affect household treatment of childhood pneumonia and infl...
- How can the MDG in hunger be achieved?: issues of food security in Asia
- G. Gill; J. Farrington; E. Anderson; C. Luttrell; T. Conway; N.C. Saxena; R. Slater / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. It identifies the key issues relating to food s...
- Drowning has become a major public health problem in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2002
- This article draws attention to drowning as a major public health problem in Bangladesh. It argues that as child mortality rates from infectious diseases in under-five years old children have declined dramatically, drowning deaths, wh...
- Influenza is an important cause of respiratory infection in children in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This paper reports the findings of a study which suggests that influenza is an important cause of respiratory infection in children in Bangladesh. Findings include: among 130 children under 13 years of age with a...
- Hib is an important cause of meningitis and pneumonia in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This report summarizes data from haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease surveillance among children hospitalised with pneumonia, meningitis and septicaemia in three hospitals in Dhaka city during 1999-2002. Findings includ...
- Risk of a drug-resistant dysentery epidemic in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This short article analyses the likelihood that a dysentery epidemic occurs in the near future in Bangladesh and proposes measures to deal with it. Claims include: in South Asia, epidemics of dysentery due to Shi...
- Fair for all: are health services equitable in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka?
- R.P. Rannan-Eliya; A. Somanathan; V. Sumathiratne; G.D. Dayaratne / Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka, 2001
- Achieving equity in access to health care is a central element of health systems reforms in many developing countries. But, how equitable are health systems in reality? This paper assesses the equity in distribution and financing of h...
- Adolescent and youth reproductive health in Bangladesh
- US Agency for International Development, 2003
- Survey of the reproductive health status of adolescents in the country. The report looks at the social context and gender socialization issues that set girls and boys apart in terms of life expectations, educational attainment,...
- Improving the detection of syphilis in Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This paper addresses the issue of syphilis in Bangladesh. It examines current screening systems, the level of infection and proposes new testing procedures to improve screening. Findings: screening for syphilis w...
- Children should be vaccinated against typhoid in their first year of life: data from Bangladesh
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003
- This paper presents the first community-based epidemiological data on typhoid disease burden from Bangladesh. Findings community-based surveillance for typhoid fever in Kamalapur during 2001 found that 5.5% blood...
- 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
