Humayun Kabir, Nirod Chandra Saha, Rukhsana Gazi
Background: Information system is an essential component for planning and management of health and family planning services. In most developing countries, Management Information Systems (MIS) are inadequate in providing the required management support. Data accuracy refers to the degree to which the...
Humayun Kabir, Rukhsana Gazi, Ali Ashraf, Nirod Chandra Saha
BACKGROUND: During 1982-1992, the Maternal and Child Health Family Planning (MCH-FP) Extension Project (Rural) of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), i...
Rukhsana Gazi, Fazlul Karim, Amr Chowdhury
This report is part of a prospective study Investigating the consequences of low birth weight on Infant \ngrowth, morbidity and feeding practices in rural Bangladesh. The study registered 644 infants who \nwere followed-up for one year of their age. The study was conducted in three unions of...
Rukhsana Gazi, Fazlul Karim, Ahmed Ali
The study was the part of a longitudinal study on the consequences of low birth \nweight babies (LBW) in three unions of Manikganj district in Bangladesh. The \nstudy aimed to estimate the infant mortality rate In title study population ·and to \nidentify the causes and factors related t...
Rukhsana Gazi, Fazlul Karim, A. K. M. Chowdhury, Mahmud, Shah Noor
The study was aimed to obtain information on knowledge of mothers about \nfecundity after childbirth and to explore the reproductive behavior of the mothers \nrelated to breastfeeding, postpartum abstinence and contraceptive practices. This \nwas a comparative study between the WHOP of B...
Rukhsana Gazi, A.R. Chowdhury, Shah Noor Mahmud, Fazlul Karim
The present study was designed to estimate the prevalence of post-partum \ninfection and two neonatal infections in rural Bangladesh and to identify the factors \nand determinants related to these infections. In this study, a total of 400 women \n(200 from WHOP area and 200 from comparis...