James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain
CONTEXT: Qualitative studies assessing the impact of the household delivery of family planning services on women's social status have yielded contradictory findings. Given the resumption of these services in Bangladesh in 2003, it is important to reevaluate the social impact of the doorstep program ...
Mary Arends‐Kuenning, Mian Bazle Hossain, Barkat‐e‐Khuda
Should family planning programs put more effort into persuading couples to want smaller families or into helping women achieve their reproductive goals? Indeed, can family planning programs affect fertility preferences? Longitudinal data from Bangladesh collected from 1982 to 1993 show that women's ...
Shameem Ahmed, Indrani Haque, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Mian Bazle Hossain et al.
Researchers with the Centre for Health and Population Research of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDRB) analyzed data on 14896 pregnancy outcomes for 6668 married women in the rural areas of Abhoynagar and Sirajganj to examine trends in induced and spontaneous ...
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain, A. A. Zahidul Huque, Jalaluddin Akbar
James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain, Marjorie A. Koblinsky
Early use-effectiveness analyses showed that contraceptive use durations were significantly extended if the option to switch methods was available. This chapter analyses the contraceptive decision-making effects of a project aimed at improving the quality and intensity of contraceptive care in the B...
Mian Bazle Hossain, Ifeyinwa E. Udo, James F. Phillips
Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is a major cause of mortality among children under the age of five in developing countries. This paper examines Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data on maternal recall of episodes of ARI in the contrasting settings of Bangladesh and Nigeria, where about 11.1% an...
Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Mian Bazle Hossain
This study used data from the 1993-94 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning (MCH-FP) Project Recording System and Demographic Surveillance System and the Matlab MCH-FP Extension Project Sample Registration System. The aim was to examine the...
Jessica D. Gipson, Mian Bazle Hossain, Michael Koenig
Bangladesh has experienced a rapid decline in fertility in the past several decades, facilitated by proactive population policies, provision of contraceptives, and broader societal shifts, encouraging smaller families and use of contraceptive to achieve revised childbearing norms. This paper present...
Mian Bazle Hossain, Barkat-e Khuda, James F. Phillips
The 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development consensus called for actions that will make family planning programmes oriented to the needs and concerns of women that are served. This paper, based on data from Bangladesh, presents an illustrative analysis of how an outreach programme can be...
Mian Bazle Hossain
Mizanur Rahman, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Mian Bazle Hossain
The MCH-FP Extention Project (Rural) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Grant No. 388-0071-A-00-3016-00 with support from the Population Council. ICDDR,B is supported by the aid agencies of the Governments of Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Chi...