Alberto M. Torres‐Cantero, KE Peterson, A C de Souza, E. John Orav et al.
INTRODUCTION: The association between infection and growth delay is not well documented in school-age children in developing countries. We conducted a prospective cohort study to examine the association between infectious disease and weight and height gains among Bangladeshi children. METHODS: A one...
Liang-Chia Chen, Robert E. Black, A.M. Sarder, Michael H. Merson et al.
The distribution of sucrose-electrolyte oral therapy packets (1 liter) by community-based workers in a rural Bangladesh population of 157,000 was evaluated. A similar population of 134,000 served as a comparison group. The locally-produced packets showed satisfactory chemical composition with a shel...
Pang‐Chi Hsu, Kuan‐Chieh Chen, Chih‐Hua Tsou, Huang‐Hsiung Hsu et al.
Abstract Future changes in the frequency and destructiveness of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) over East Asia were investigated by analyzing the simulations of two high‐resolution (20–25‐km) atmospheric general circulation models forced by sea surface temperature (SST) in the present period (19...
A.M. Sarder, Liang-Chia Chen
Liang-Chia Chen, Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury
Bangladesh, the eighth most populous country in the world, provides an acute illustration of the recent concern over the precarious global balance between food supply and rapid population growth. A new nation with about 76 million people inhabiting 142 thousand square kilometers of land, Bangladesh ...
J. B. Auden, Liang-Chia Chen
Robert E. Black, Liang-Chia Chen, Oscar Harkavy, Margubur Rahaman et al.
Liang-Chia Chen
In India the low ratio of females to males raises several questions: are the data on low sex ratio accurate? how and why does low sex ratio occur? and what action can be taken assuming that the deteriorating sex ratio is undesirable from a public welfare perspective? Substantial research undertaken ...
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Atiqur Rahman Khan, Liang-Chia Chen
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Atiqur Rahman Khan, Lincoln C. Chen, The Effect of Child Mortality Experience on Subsequent Fertility: in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Population Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jul., 1976), pp. 249-261
Abbas Bhuiya, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sabrina Rasheed, Zakir Hussain et al.
Bangladesh, the eighth most populous country in the world with about 153 million people, has recently been applauded as an exceptional health performer. In the fi rst paper in this Series, we present evidence to show that Bangladesh has achieved substantial health advances, but the country’s success...
Liang-Chia Chen, A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Sandra L. Huffman
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Atiqur Rahman Khan, Liang-Chia Chen
The increase in human fertility associated with child mortality revealed in an examination of data from Bangladesh and Pakistan has biological rather than behavioral causes. Previous investigations have suggested that low child survivorship inflates desired family size and acts as a barrier to contr...
Liang-Chia Chen, Jon E. Rohde
Mizanur Rahman, Liang-Chia Chen, L Chakroborty, Mohammad Yunus et al.
Tetanus vaccination was offered to pregnant women within the context of a maternal-child health family planning program in a rural area of Bangladesh. During a period of 16 months only about 34% of pregnant women identified by field workers received full immunization (2 injections) and about 5% rece...