Training Niport, Bangladesh, Mitra, Associates et al.
Sohana Shafique, Nasima Akhter, Gudrun Stallkamp, Saskia de Pee et al.
BACKGROUND: Although undernutrition and communicable diseases dominate the current disease burden in resource-poor countries, the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases is increasing. This paper explores current trends of under- and overweight in Bangladeshi women. METHOD: Nationally representa...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Göran Tomson, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir
OBJECTIVE: To study the health-seeking behaviour of elderly members (aged > 60 years) of households in rural Bangladesh, to ascertain how their behaviour differs from that of younger people (aged 20-59 years) living in the same household and to explore the determinants of health-seeking behaviour. M...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Sadia Chowdhury, Md. Nazrul Islam, Akramul Islam et al.
Background Tuberculosis remains a major public-health problem in Bangladesh, despite national efforts to improve case identification and treatment compliance. In 1984, BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), a national, non-governmental organisation, began an experimental tubercu...
Shams El Arifeen, Kenneth Hill, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil et al.
Background Bangladesh is one of the only nine Countdown countries that are on track to achieve the primary target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015. It is also the only low-income or middle-income country with two large, nationally-representative, high-quality household surveys focused ...
Nai Peng Tey, Siow Li Lai
The high maternal and neonatal mortality rates in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa can be attributed to the lack of access and utilization of health services for delivery. Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania show that m...
Martin Adjuik
OBJECTIVE: To provide internationally comparable data on the frequencies of different causes of death. METHODS: We analysed verbal autopsies obtained during 1999 -2002 from 12 demographic surveillance sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh to find cause-specific and age-specific mortality rates....
Vincent Fauveau
Various community-based interventions have been proposed to improve maternity care, but hardly any studies have reported the effect of these measures on maternal mortality. In this study, the efficacy of a maternity-care programme to reduce maternal mortality has been evaluated in the context of a p...
Farzana Ferdous, Sumon K. Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Fahmida Dil Farzana et al.
Enteric pathogens are commonly associated with diarrhea among malnourished children. This study aimed to determine the association between the severity of diarrheal illnesses and malnutrition among under 5-year-old children. During 2010 and 2011, we studied 2,324 under 5-year-old diarrheal children ...
Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Mohammad Mubarak Hossain Khan, Mohammad Nazrul Islam Mondal et al.
Objective To identify the prevalence and risk factors of child malnutrition in Bangladesh. Study design Data was extracted from the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (2011). The outcome measures were stunting, wasting, and underweight. χ(2) analysis was performed to find the association of outcom...
S. N. Mitra, M. Nawab Ali, Shahidul Islam, Anne R. Cross et al.
This report provides the full results of the 1993-94 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey among 9640 ever married women 10-49 years old and 3284 husbands of respondents. Evidence suggests rapid and accelerating fertility decline to 3.4 births during 1991-93 a drop of 21% from 1989-91. Levels of ...
Tuhin Biswas, Md. Saimul Islam, Natalie M. Linton, Lal Rawal
INTRODUCTION: Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major public health challenge, and undermine social and economic development in much of the developing world, including Bangladesh. Epidemiologic evidence on the socioeconomic status (SES)-related pattern of NCDs remains limited in Banglad...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Roslin Botlero, Marge Koblinsky, Sajal Saha et al.
Background Research on the effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality is scarce. We aimed to assess the contribution of intervention strategies, such as skilled attendance at birth, to the recorded reduction in maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh. We examined and compared trends i...
Training Niport, Bangladesh, Orc Macro
Liang-Chia Chen, Md Mizanur Rahman, A.M. Sarder
From a longitudinal surveillance programme among a rural Bangladesh population of 260,000, the epidemiology and causes of child death (under age 5) over 3 years (1975-1977) were analyzed. The most significant causes of death were diarrhoea (watery and dysentery), tetanus, measles, fever, respiratory...