Michael L. Bennish, Bogdan Wojtyniak
Almost all fatal cases of shigellosis occur in developing countries, and data on mortality are generally compiled from three sources: investigations of epidemics caused by Shigella dysenteriae type 1, surveillance of endemic diarrheal disease, and reports from hospitals. Attack rates during epidemic...
André Briend, Bogdan Wojtyniak, MichaelG.M Rowland
Mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) was measured monthly for 6 months in about 500 children aged 6-36 months from rural Bangladesh. Children who would die within 1 month of screening could be identified with 94% specificity and 56% sensitivity--almost twice the sensitivity achieved by other anthropom...
Michael L. Bennish, Jeffrey R. Harris, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Marc Struelens
The total number of admissions and deaths of patients with shigellosis were ascertained at the Dhaka Treatment Centre of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 1974-1988, and the characteristics of 67 patients who died were compared with those of 134 discharged alive. ...
Nurul Alam, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Margubur Rahaman
Six anthropometric indicators based on weight, height, arm circumference (AC), and age were examined to predict mortality risk of children aged 12-59 mo in a rural area of Teknaf, Bangladesh. In the period 1981-85, 9861 measurements at 6-mo intervals were made on 2449 children. For all indices morta...
André Briend, Bogdan Wojtyniak, M.G.M. Rowland
The effect of breast feeding on nutritional state, morbidity, and child survival was examined prospectively in a community in rural Bangladesh. Every month for six months health workers inquired about breast feeding and illness and measured arm circumference in an average of 4612 children aged 12-36...
Michael Koenig, Mehrab Ali Khan, Bogdan Wojtyniak, John D. Clemens et al.
This study examines the impact of measles vaccination on childhood mortality, based on longitudinal data from the Matlab maternal and child health/family planning programme in rural Bangladesh. It analyses the mortality experience of 8135 vaccinated and 8135 randomly matched nonvaccinated children a...
J. D. Clemens, Bonita Stanton, J. Chakraborty, SHAHRIAR CHOWDHURY et al.
To ascertain whether measles vaccination was associated with reduced mortality rates in rural Bangladeshi children, the authors conducted a case-control study in four contiguous areas, two of which had participated in an intensive measles vaccination program which began in the spring of 1982. Cases ...
Nurul Alam, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Fitzroy J. Henry, Margubur Rahaman
Alam N (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh), Wojtyniak B, Henry F J and Rahaman M M. Mothers' personal and domestic hygiene and diarrhoea incidence in young children in rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 18...
André Briend, Clare A. Dykewicz, K Graven, Ramendra Nath Mazumder et al.
The usefulness of nutritional indices and classifications in predicting the death of children under 5 years old was evaluated by comparing measurements of 34 children with diarrhoea who died in a Dhaka hospital with those of 318 patients who were discharged in a satisfactory condition. In a logistic...
Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Ghorbani Mostafa, A.M. Sarder et al.
Fauveau V (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR-B) GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh), Wojtyniak B, Mostafa G, Sarder A M and Chakraborty J. Perinatal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: A community-based study. International Journal of Epidemiology 1990, 19: 606–612. Perinatal...
Mizanur Rahman, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Margubur Rahaman, K M Aziz
In two villages of Bangladesh, 2471 infants born in 1976 and 1977 were followed up for a year to study the impact of environmental sanitation and crowding on their mortality. Neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates in the study cohort were 100 and 75 per 1000 live-births, respectively. Multiple lo...
Michael Koenig, N C Roy, Thomas F. McElrath, M Shahidullah et al.
OBJECTIVES: Although maternal tetanus immunization has been shown to be highly effective in the prevention of neonatal tetanus, unresolved questions remain concerning the required minimum number of doses and the resulting duration of effective immunity. This study examined the duration of effective ...
Vincent Fauveau, Michael Koenig, Bogdan Wojtyniak
Excess female over male mortality during childhood, well known in the northern Indian subcontinent, is particularly marked in rural Bangladesh. While the determinants of this phenomenon and the respective roles of cultural and economic factors are still debated, little data exist on cause-specific m...
Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Michael Koenig, J. Chakraborty et al.
A total of 542 women aged 15 to 44 years died during the 10-year period 1976 to 1985 in the control area of Matlab, an area with a population of 90,000, representative of many other rural areas of southern Bangladesh. The corresponding age-specific mortality rate was 290 per 100,000 women 15-44 year...
Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak, J. Chakraborty, A.M. Sarder et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact on mortality of a child survival strategy, mostly based on preventive interventions. DESIGN: Cross sectional comparison of cause specific mortality in two communities differing in the type, coverage, and quality of maternal and child health and family planning servic...