Bangladesh and Health
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- Initiatives in Bangladesh and Ghana demonstrate the key role of research in health reform
- J.F. Phillips; T.C. Jones; F.K. Nyonator; S. Ravikumar / Population Council, USA, 2003
- This paper, produced by the Population Council, looks at the role of research in health reform through the example of two country initiatives in Bangladesh and Ghana. Both of these initiatives have used experimental studies to guide t...
- Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health
- Kim Rivers; Peter Aggleton / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton ...
- Research programme on food insecurity and malnutrition in urban areas
- J. Garrett; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
- This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security. The programme began in 1995 and aims at providing policy makers, program administrators and development practitioner...
- Using dietary diversity as an indicator of household food access
- J. Hoddinott; Y. Yohannes / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access. It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, K...
- The importance of developing preventive strategies for tackling coronary heart disease in South Asia
- S. Nishtar / The Lancet, 2002
- It is increasingly recognised that cardiovascular diseases are a major health problem in developing countries. However, tertiary health care for such diseases is expensive and frequently unavailable in developing countries. Cost and a...
- An evaluation of two case studies of contracting out primary health care to NGOs in Bangladesh
- B. Loevinsohn / World Bank, 2002
- There is increasing interest in developing countries, in contracting with NGOs and the for-profit private sector to deliver primary health care (PHC) including nutrition and family planning services. Some experience in low-income coun...
- The pros, cons and consequences of shifting from programme-based aid to sector wide approaches in the health sector
- A. Brown / HLSP Institute, UK, 2001
- Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes? This research paper was commissioned by the Swiss Agency f...
- Overview of Bangladesh’s health care system
- M. Pearson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999
- In the late 1990s, Bangladesh implemented a national strategy – the Health and Population Sector Strategy – aimed at addressing some of the lessons learned from their fourth five-year plan. This national strategy has led to ...
- Overview of the development of the SWAp in the health sector of Bangladesh
- HLSP Institute, UK, 2001
- The health sector programme in Bangladesh – known as the Health and Population Sector Programme (HPSP) – aims to ensure that government action and resources make a cost-effective contribution to the priority health needs of ...
- How do sector wide approaches tackle poverty reduction objectives in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?
- M. Foster; S. Mackintosh-Walker / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
- Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper. The purpose of this paper, produced by the Overseas Development Instit...
- 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
