Bangladesh and Health
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- Impact of Constipation in Children on Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- S Hoque 2010
- Culture documented UTI in children with constipation is seven times more than without constipation showing impact of constipation on urinary tract infection (UTI) in children.
- Perinatal HIV Infection - An Update
- S Ishrat 2010
- HIV pandemic is one of the most serious health crisis the world face today . Approximately 5-10% of all cases of HIV are children. Nearly all those children acquired infection through mother to child transmission either during pregnan...
- Gastric Trichobezoar with Outlet Obstruction in a Child of 4 Years old - A Rare Occurrence
- B Naher 2010
- The diagnosis of trichobezoar in an apparently healthy child requires a high index of suspicion as it can present with nonspecific symptomatology. It should be included in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain.
- Chondrodysplasia Punctata in a Newborn; Rhizomelic Type: A Case Report
- B Naher 2010
- Chondrodysplasia punctata refers to a heterogenous group of conditions which share calcific stippling of cartilage and periarticuler soft tissues. Particularly punctuate calcification is seen in the heel in infancy. These disorders di...
- A Family of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Case Report
- S Muaz 2010
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is arthritis of unknown etiology that begins before the 16th birthday and persists for at least 6 weeks; other known conditions are excluded1. JIA is a complex genetic trait. Despite the genetic con...
- Histological Changes of Human Kidney with Age in Bangladeshi People
- U Zaman 2011
- Kidney disease is one of the world's major public health problems and the prevalence of kidney failure is rising day by day. The structure and function of the kidney changes with advancing age. This study is to find out the histologic...
- Knowledge and Practicing Behavior Related to Personal Hygiene among the Secondary School Students of Mymensingh Sadar Upazilla, Bangladesh
- J Ghose 2012
- A descriptive type of cross sectional study was conducted on 132 students of class IX and X of Mymensingh sadar upazilla during early April to late June, 2007. This study was performed to assess and compare the level of knowledge and ...
- Association Between Prolonged Maternal Smokeless Tobacco Use and Pregnancy Outcome
- M Rahman 2012
- About one third of the adults in the world including increasing number of women (250 million) daily smoke (22% in developed world & 9% of women in developing world). Approximately 28% women in Bangladesh use smokeless tobacco (ST)...
- Knowledge of Health Hazards and Perception of Prevention Amongst Females Exposed to Biomass Fuel and Gas/Electricity Fuel in A District of Bangladesh
- M Alim 2013
- Indoor air pollution from biomass smoke is now regarded as public health hazard in the developing world, where more than two billion people still rely on the use of solid biomass fuels such as, dung, wood, crop residue and coal for co...
- Morbidity Pattern Among the Rural Household in a Selected Area of Dhamrai Upazila, Dhaka
- M Rahim 2012
- This is a descriptive type of cross sectional study among 477 family heads as respondents. It is aimed to identify morbidity pattern, duration of illness among households' members and also to determine treatment seeking behavior durin...
- 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
