José Martines, Vinod K. Paul, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Marjorie A. Koblinsky et al.
To achieve the Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG-4), neonatal deaths need to be prevented. Previous papers in this series have presented the size of the problem, discussed cost-effective interventions, and outlined a systematic approach to overcoming health-system constraints to sc...
Wendy Graham, Jacqueline Bell, Colin H W Bullough
Summary This paper explores the scientific justification for the key action message “ensure skilled attendance at delivery.” Many governments and other provider agencies in poor countries will need to commit additional health resources in order to respond to this message, and opportunity costs will ...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Ann P. Riley
Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
In efforts to reduce gender and socioeconomic disparities in the health of populations, the provision of medical services alone is clearly inadequate. While socioeconomic development is assumed important in rectifying gender and socioeconomic inequities in health care access, service use and ultimat...
Jon E. Rohde, Simon Cousens, Mickey Chopra, Viroj Tangcharoensathien et al.
We assessed progress for primary health care in countries since Alma-Ata. First we analysed life expectancy relative to national income and HIV prevalence to identify overachieving and underachieving countries. Then we focused on the 30 low-income and middle-income countries with the highest average...
Sudhin Thayyil, Stuti Pant, Paolo Montaldo, Deepika Shukla et al.
BACKGROUND: Although therapeutic hypothermia reduces death or disability after neonatal encephalopathy in high-income countries, its safety and efficacy in low-income and middle-income countries is unclear. We aimed to examine whether therapeutic hypothermia alongside optimal supportive intensive ca...
Jennifer Bryce, César G. Victora, Jean‐Pierre Habicht, Robert E. Black et al.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the expectations held by World Health Organization programme personnel about how the introduction of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy would lead to improvements in child health and nutrition, to compare these expectations with what was learned fr...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Awlad Hossain, Ahmed Mushtaque RajaChowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh. This data is essential for developing an HRH policy and plan to meet ...
Susheela Singh, Renée Samara
This study examines trends in first marriage consensual unions and cohabiting unions among adolescents. Data were obtained for 40 countries from Demographic and Health Surveys. Marriage timing was grouped for the proportion of all women aged 20-24 years who married by ages 15 18 and 20 years. Women ...
Ruhul Amin, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the socioeconomic differentials in the utilization of these services were based on a limited number of factors, focusing either on...
Roy Burstein, Nathaniel J Henry, Michael L. Collison, Laurie B. Marczak et al.
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational ...
KH Nyqvist, GC Anderson, Nils Bergman, Adriano Cattaneo et al.
UNLABELLED: The hallmark of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the kangaroo position: the infant is cared for skin-to-skin vertically between the mother's breasts and below her clothes, 24 h/day, with father/substitute(s) participating as KMC providers. Intermittent KMC (for short periods once or a few t...
Marjorie A. Koblinsky, Oona M. R. Campbell, J. Heichelheim
The various means of delivering essential obstetric services are described for settings in which the maternal mortality ratio is relatively low. This review yields four basic models of care, which are best described by organizational characteristics relating to where women give birth and who perform...
Shams El Arifeen, Aliki Christou, Laura Reichenbach, Ferdous Arfina Osman et al.
In Bangladesh, rapid advancements in coverage of many health interventions have coincided with impressive reductions in fertility and rates of maternal, infant, and childhood mortality. These advances, which have taken place despite such challenges as widespread poverty, political instability, and f...
Pradip K. Muhuri, Samuel H. Preston
Pradip K. Muhuri, Samuel H. Preston, Effects of Family Composition on Mortality Differentials by Sex Among Children in Matlab, Bangladesh, Population and Development Review, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 415-434