James F. Phillips, Wayne S. Stinson, Shushum Bhatia, Makhlisur Rahman et al.
This paper evaluates the demographic impact of the Family Planning-Health Services Project in Matlab Thana of rural Bangladesh. The project was begun by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in October 1977. Contraceptive services--including pills, condoms, IUDs, steri...
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
Makhlisur Rahman, W. Henry Mosley, Atiqur Rahman Khan, A. I. Chowdhury et al.
Makhlisur Rahman, W. H. Mosley, Atiqur Rahman Khan, A. I. Chowdhury, J. Chakraborty, Contraceptive Distribution in Bangladesh: Some Lessons Learned, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1980), pp. 191-201
Wayne S. Stinson, James F. Phillips, Makhlisur Rahman, J. Chakraborty
This paper evaluates a study fielded in Bangladesh in 1975 to test the hypothesis that ubiquitous availability of pills and condoms in a rural, traditional, noncontracepting population would increase contraceptive use and reduce fertility. Treatment and comparison areas were designated in Matlab, an...
Makhlisur Rahman
This study is concerned with variations in levels of contraceptive practice in Matlab thana Bangladesh. The focus of the study was examine to what extent theories and findings of other studies on the causes of variation in levels of contraceptive practice apply in the rural area of Bangladesh. A cor...
Makhlisur Rahman, M. Kabir, Ruhul Amin
This paper examines the association between infant mortality of the first born and subsequent children using data from rural Bangladesh collected during the period 1971-82. It shows that birth spacing and age of mother at the time of the second birth are important predictors of the survival status o...
Makhlisur Rahman
Sultana Razia, Makhlisur Rahman
Makhlisur Rahman, Douglas Huber, J. Chakraborty
Moni Nag, Makhlisur Rahman
Makhlisur Rahman
Sallie Craig Huber, Douglas Huber, Atiqur Rahman Khan, J. Chakraborty et al.
A case-control survey of mothers was undertaken in rural Bangladesh to assess the health problems of oral contraceptive users compared with two groups of nonusers. The complaint most often reported was weakness--more than 80% of all women surveyed. Significantly more pill users than nonusers reporte...