Vincent Fauveau
Various community-based interventions have been proposed to improve maternity care, but hardly any studies have reported the effect of these measures on maternal mortality. In this study, the efficacy of a maternity-care programme to reduce maternal mortality has been evaluated in the context of a p...
Michael Koenig, Vincent Fauveau, A. I. Chowdhury, Jayajit Chakraborty et al.
This paper reports findings from a study of maternal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh during the 1976-85 period. The study employed a multiple-step procedure to identify maternity-related deaths to all reproductive-aged women within the study area during this period. A total of 387 maternal deaths we...
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...
Vincent Fauveau, T. Blanchet
Information about injuries and violence as causes of death of women is scarce and often incomplete, and particularly so regarding women in the rural areas of South Asia. This report provides detailed specific information collected in Matlab, a sub-district of rural Bangladesh. Of 1139 women (aged 15...
Vincent Fauveau, Michael Koenig, J. Chakraborty, A. I. Chowdhury
Of a total of 1037 women of reproductive age who died during the period 1976-85 in the Matlab area that was under demographic surveillance, 387 (37%) were maternal deaths. The mean maternal mortality over the 10-year period was 5.5 per 1000 live births (101 per 100 000 women of reproductive age). Ma...
Michael Koenig, Ubaidur Rob, Mehrab Ali Khan, J. Chakraborty et al.
The results of a 1990 knowledge, attitudes, and practice survey in Matlab, Bangladesh, indicate that contraceptive prevalence has risen to 57 percent in the maternal and child health/family planning project area. Between 1984 and 1990 significant increases were registered in the proportions of women...
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...
Vincent Fauveau, M.K. STEWART, J. Chakraborty, Shah Alam Khan
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRIs) are a major cause of death among young children in developing countries. A targeted programme designed to treat children with ALRI was implemented in 1988 in a primary health care project in rural Bangladesh. In the 2 years preceding the introduction ...
Vincent Fauveau, Fitzroy J. Henry, André Briend, Mohammad Yunus et al.
To determine the importance of persistent diarrhea in childhood mortality a multiple-step verbal autopsy method was used to study 1934 deaths in Matlab, Bangladesh. We found that most of the deaths from acute watery diarrhea occurred in infancy, whereas the peak of non-watery diarrhea deaths was in ...
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, André Briend, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty, Abdul Majid Sarder
The contribution of severe malnutrition to child mortality was examined in a rural Bangladeshi population of 200,000 under intensive demographic surveillance. In 1986–1987 one-third of all the deaths in children between 6 and 36 months of age were associated with severe malnutrition, and 79% of thos...
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...
Kotsaythoune Phimmasone, Inpanh Douangpoutha, Vincent Fauveau, Phonethep Pholsena
The results of the first nationally representative survey of nutritional status of children in the Lao PDR, focusing on the assessment of protein-energy malnutrition are described. Among children under 5 years of age, the prevalence of stunting (children of short stature, below -2 Z-scores height-fo...
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...
Michael Koenig, Vincent Fauveau, Bogdan Wojtyniak
Researchers used data from rural Matlab Bangladesh to examine potential mortality reductions from immunization. 20.5% of all neonatal deaths were attributable to tetanus. These deaths were very high during days 1-2. Nevertheless the number of deaths attributable to tetanus compared to all causes of ...