Roy Sk, George J. Fuchs, Zeba Mahmud, Gulshan Ara et al.
This prospective randomized trial was carried out to test the efficacy of a specific intervention for reducing the extent of their malnutrition and to change behaviour of mothers relating to child-feeding practices, care-giving, and health-seeking practices under the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition ...
Md Kamrul Hasan, Sam Desiere, Marijke D’Haese, Lalit Kumar
Alok Bhargava, Howarth E. Bouis, Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Iron deficiency anemia affects a large number of women in developing countries, especially during child-bearing years. The hemoglobin concentration is useful for identifying iron deficiency anemia. The main objectives of this study were, first, to extend algorithms for calculating bioavailable iron ...
Nigar S. Shahid, W. B. Greenough, A R Samadi, M. I. Huq et al.
Hand washing with soap and water can prevent the spread of diarrhoeal diseases in areas where comparatively costly interventions, such as supply of safe water and improved sanitation, are not possible. In this study, the practice of hand washing with soap and water was instituted in a periurban slum...
Nurul Alam, Roy Sk, Tahmeed Ahmed, AM Shamsir Ahmed
This study estimated the levels and differentials in nutritional status and dietary intake and relevant knowledge of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh using data from the Baseline Survey 2004 of the National Nutrition Programme. A stratified two-stage random cluster-sampling was used for selectin...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Carole Tronchet, Shamima Akhter et al.
Handwashing with soap prevents diarrhea and respiratory disease, but it is rarely practiced in high-need settings. Among 100 randomly selected villages in rural Bangladesh, field workers enrolled 10 households per village and observed and recorded household activities for 5 hours. Field workers obse...
C. S. Srinivasan, Giacomo Zanello, Bhavani Shankar
BACKGROUND: The persistence of rural-urban disparities in child nutrition outcomes in developing countries alongside rapid urbanisation and increasing incidence of child malnutrition in urban areas raises an important health policy question - whether fundamentally different nutrition policies and in...
Margaret Lawson, Margaret Thomas
The Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Department of Health carried out a survey between 1994 and 1996 of infant feeding practices of mothers of Bangladeshi, Indian, or Pakistani origin living in England. 1 A blood sample was taken during October-November 1...
Chloe Puett, Kate Sadler, Harold Alderman, Jennifer Coates et al.
This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of adding the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (CMAM) to a community-based health and nutrition programme delivered by community health workers (CHWs) in southern Bangladesh. The cost-effectiveness of this model of treatment for sever...
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nurnabi Sheikh et al.
In Bangladesh, the burden of diarrheal diseases is significant among children <5 years old. The objective of this study is to capture the prevalence of and health care-seeking behavior for childhood diarrheal diseases (CDDs) and to identify the factors associated with CDDs at a population level in B...
Stephanie Psaki, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shamsir Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Stunting results from decreased food intake, poor diet quality, and a high burden of early childhood infections, and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although food insecurity is an important determinant of child nutrition, including stunting, development of u...
Chris Hillbruner, Rebecca Egan
BACKGROUND: The influence of seasonality on food security and nutritional status is widely accepted. However, research has typically focused on rural households and has not explored the specific mechanisms underlying seasonal effects. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of seasonality in determining ...
Bonnie Hausman, Constance Hammen
The same factors that impede a mother's ability to maintain a stable residence are likely to impair her capacity to nurture children. This double crisis of homelessness and child rearing confronts caregivers with a special set of ethical and practical dilemmas. Psychosocial characteristics of homele...
Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
OBJECTIVE: Despite a strong relationship between household food security and the health and nutritional status of adults and older children, the association of household food security with the growth of infants and young children has not been adequately studied, particularly in developing countries....
Sonia Akter, Syed Abul Basher