Geoffrey McNicoll, Roger Jeffery, Alaka Malwade Basu
Schooling as Contraception? - Roger Jeffery and Alaka M Basu Girls' Schooling, Autonomy and Fertility Change - Alaka M Basu What Do These Words Mean in South Asia? Maternal Schooling and Fertility - John Cleland and Shireen Jejeebhoy Evidence from Censuses and Surveys Educational Attainment, Status ...
John C. Caldwell, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris et al.
The claim has been made, notably in a 1994 World Bank report, that the Bangladesh fertility decline shows that efficient national family planning programs can achieve major fertility declines even in countries that are very poor, and even if females have a low status and significant socioeconomic ch...
John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris
This article aims to show how the period now known as adolescence came into being and how it was shaped by international economic, institutional, and social influences. It considers premodern societies and argues that traditional culture has shaped contemporary adolescence even more than has global ...
Kamalini Lokuge, Wayne Smith, Bruce Caldwell, Keith Dear et al.
Many interventions have been advocated to mitigate the impact of arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh. However, there are few data on the true magnitude of arsenic-related disease in Bangladesh nationally. There has also been little consideration given to possible adverse effects of...
Carine Claeys, Khalequ Zaman, Ghassan Dbaibo, Ping Li et al.
Background Despite the importance of vaccinating children younger than 5 years, few studies evaluating vaccine prevention of influenza have been reported in this age group. We evaluated efficacy of an inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (IIV4) in children aged 6-35 months. Methods In this pha...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra, Wayne Smith
Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis: Thirty years ago Bangladesh experienced very high levels of infant and child mortality, much of it due to water-borne disease in deltaic conditions where surface water was highly polluted. In what appeared to be one of the great pub...
Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, John Caldwell et al.
Bangladesh adjoins the Asian region with the severest AIDS epidemic and has common borders with two of the most affected areas, the Indian Hill States and northern Burma. There has been disagreement about the danger to Bangladesh, one view citing the likelihood of transmission from neighbouring infe...
Bruce Caldwell
In contrast to East and South-east Asia, changes in marriage patterns have played a small role in reducing fertility in South Asia. While age at marriage for women has risen, it remains early, with the exception of Sri Lanka, and change has been slow. Except in Sri Lanka, the region has shown few si...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra, Wayne Smith
Abstract Bangladesh has seen one of the developing world's great public health successes, the conversion of the drinking water source for 94% of the rural population to ‘safe water’, in the form of tubewells, with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality from water‐borne disease. Now, that succes...
Bruce Caldwell, Barkat‐e‐Khuda
In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproductive age in 1980 to 3.3 children per woman in 1996. Much discussion has ensued about the circumstances responsible for this decline and, in particular, about the contribution made by the national family...
John C. Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell
The Asian demographic transition is treated as one aspect of the global Industrial Revolution, which started in the West but now involves the whole world. In fact, the multiplication of per capita income in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century has been the world's fastest. With the rise ...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Wayne Smith, Keith Dear, J. C. Ng et al.
Arsenic groundwater contamination in Bangladesh warrants immediate remediation. This randomised controlled intervention trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of two possible interventions: dug wells and three-pitcher filters. A total of 640 individuals participated with 218 randomised t...
Bruce Caldwell, Wayne Smith, Kamalini Lokuge, Geetha Ranmuthugala et al.
The discovery of arsenic contamination in groundwater has challenged efforts to provide safe drinking-water to households in rural Bangladesh. Two nationally-representative surveys in 2000 and 2002 investigated water-usage patterns, water-testing, knowledge of arsenic poisoning, and behavioural resp...
Bruce Caldwell
Sri Lanka has almost completed the demographic transition with low mortality rates and fertility rates approaching replacement levels. Sri Lanka shares these characteristics with the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in contrast to elsewhere in South Asia where mortality and especially fe...
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt, Robert Wasson
Foreword - Peter P Mollinga Introduction: Placing Water First - Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt I. THE REGIONAL POLITICS OF WATER IN SOUTH ASIA National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene - Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers ...