Bangladesh and Health
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- Urinary Tract Infection in Children : An Update
- K Laila 2012
- UTI is an important cause of acute illness, it may be a marker of underlying urinary tract abnormality. Bacteria causes the large majority of UTI in children-Escherichia coli is the most common (90%) bacterial cause . Urine culture &a...
- Health Care Exclusion: An Examination in Bangladesh
- A Taher 2011
- Bangladesh has made significant progress in many of its social development indicators particularly in health; however, a vast portion of its people still does not use health care services from medically trained providers. An attempt h...
- Healthcare-seeking Behaviour among the Tribal People of Bangladesh: Can the Current Health System Really Meet Their Needs?
- S Rahman 2012
- Despite the wealth of studies on health and healthcare-seeking behaviour among the Bengali population in Bangladesh, relatively few studies have focused specifically on the tribal groups in the country. This study aimed at exploring t...
- Mass Media Exposure and its Impact on Fertility: Current Scenario of Bangladesh
- A. Rabbi 2012
- On the way to reduce fertility rate of Bangladesh, mass media plays significant role to raise consciousness about the family planning program on general peoples. In this study the impact of mass media has been measured by the pattern ...
- How Paediatricians can Promote, Protect and Support Breastfeeding
- M Talukder 2011
- The last five Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) data8-12 from 1993 to 2007 show that there has not been significant change in exclusive breastfeeding rates nationally and this is reflected in almost static nutritional st...
- Internalized HIV/AIDS-related Stigma in a Sample of HIV-positive People in Bangladesh
- T. Hasan 2012
- Internalized stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) is prevalent in Bangladesh. A better understanding of the effects of stigma on PLHA is required to reduce this and to minimize its harmful effects. This study employed a qua...
- “Growing Pain in Children†Review
- T Begum 2011
- Growing pains (GP) is the most common form of episodic childhood musculoskeletal pain1, 2. Medical science is still unable to fully explain the exact causes of the discomfort experienced by up to one –third of all ch...
- Blood Transfusion: A Risk Factor in Retinopathy of Prematurity
- S Akter 2010
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal vascular disorder of preterm neonates resulting in visual impairement. Along with prematurity, very low birth weight and hyperoxia, role of blood transfusions in the occurrence of ROP has ...
- Past and Present Pattern of Congenital Heart Disease at Dhaka Shishu Hospital: A Situation Analysis
- M Hussain 2010
- Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital problem in children. In order to avoid complications, reduce mortality and for proper management early detection of congenital heart disease is of utmost importance.Acyanoti...
- Factors Influencing the quality of life of stroke patients
- A Nayeem 2012
- Stroke related disability seriously hamper the good quality of life. Along with proper medications, ensuring the good quality of life is vital. This study was designed to determine the quality of life and its relationship with socio-d...
- 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
