Liang-Chia Chen, Emdadul Huq, Stan D’Souza
Conclusive evidence was provided in an earlier study by the authors of higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh.' Male mortality exceeded female mortality in the neonatal period, but this differential was reversed in the p...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sabrina Rasheed 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 first paper in this Series, we present evidence to show that Bangladesh has achieved substantial health advances, but the country's success ...
Stan D’Souza, Liang-Chia Chen
This study provides conclusive documentation of higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh. The higher male mortality rates during the neonatal period are consistent with reports from developed countries; but whereas in deve...
Liang-Chia Chen, Melita Gesche, Shamsa Ahmed, A. I. Chowdhury et al.
Studies were carried out by the Cholera Research Laboratory to investigate maternal mortality in rural Bangladesh. In the 1st study field workers interviewed the closest relative of every reported deceased female in the reproductive age group to diagnose the probable cause of death. The 2nd investig...
Liang-Chia Chen, Shamsa Ahmed, Melita Gesche, W. Henry Mosley
Abstract A group of 209 married, fecund women in rural Bangladesh were studied prospectively for 24 months from 1969 to 1971 to define some of the biological and sociological factors relating to fertility performance. These women were selected from a larger study population of 112,000 that had been ...
Liang-Chia Chen, Md Mizanur Rahman, A.M. Sarder
From a longitudinal surveillance programme among a rural Bangladesh population of 260,000, the epidemiology and causes of child death (under age 5) over 3 years (1975-1977) were analyzed. The most significant causes of death were diarrhoea (watery and dysentery), tetanus, measles, fever, respiratory...
Liang-Chia Chen, A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Sandra L. Huffman
The influence of seasonal variations in agriculutral practices, dietary intakes and illness on the nutritional status of preschool children was examined in this longitudinal study of approximately 200 woman‐child pairs in rural Bangladesh. The seasonal nature of cropping patterns was associated with...
Mizanur Rahman, Liang-Chia Chen, J. Chakraborty, Mohammad Yunus et al.
1 approach to the prevention of tetanus neonatorum (a leading cause of infant death throughout the world) is improving the quality of prenatal, obstetric, and postnatal maternal and child health services. Another complementary approach is the active immunization of women before or during pregnancy w...
Liang-Chia Chen, Shamsa Ahmed, Melita Gesche, W. Henry Mosley
Liang-Chia Chen, Emdadul Huq, Sandra L. Huffman
Prospective field data were employed to examined the effect of child malnutrition on the subsequent risk of diarrhea among preschool children in rural Bangladesh. A total of 2019 children aged 12-23 months were classified according to weight-for-age, weight-for-height, and height-for-age of the Harv...
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Atiqur Rahman Khan, Liang-Chia Chen
Summary This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effects, behavioural and biological, of child mortality experience on subsequent fertility in two South Asian Islamic nations. Data for the investigation came from retrospective pregnancy histories of 2,910 currently married women interviewed ...
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Liang-Chia Chen, Chowdhury, A.K.M. Alauddin, Chen, Lincoln C.
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Brian Latko, José Gomes Temporäo, Julio Frenk, Timothy Evans et al.
Liang-Chia Chen, Makhlisur Rahman, Stan D’Souza, J. Chakraborty et al.
Lincoln C. Chen, Makhlisur Rahman, Stan D'Souza, J. Chakraborty, A. M. Sardar, Mortality Impact of an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 14, No. 8/9 (Aug. - Sep., 1983), pp. 199-209
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Liang-Chia Chen
Presents data on the demographic impact of 2 contemporary Bangladesh famines due to war (1971) and crop failure (1974). Fluctuations of births deaths and migrations are analyzed and disaggregated. From such empirical data an analytical framework delineating the multiple interacting causes and conseq...