Public health sciences conference papers
54 publications available
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Implementation of the essential services package through standardized service delivery protocols
Objective: Evaluate the range and quality of services delivered from the urban primary-care clinics through the adaptation and implementation of appropriate and practical service delivery protocols.Methodology: The study was on a quasi-... -
Aetiology and pathogenesis of chronic diarrhoeal illness in adults
Objective: Study the aetiology of chronic diarrhoea and understand the underlying pathology leading to the disease. Methodology: Chronic diarrhoea was defined as duration of diarrhoeal illness for approximately three weeks or longer.&#x... -
Health conditions of pregnant women and perinatal mortality in a slum of Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Objective: Examine the association between perinatal mortality with health conditions, and treatment-seeking behaviour of pregnant women in a slum population of Dhaka city in Bangladesh. Methodology: A cohort of 2,007 pregnant women... -
Reported morbid symptoms and conditions of pregnant, intrapartum and postpartum women: experience from three villages
Investigate reported morbid symptoms and conditions of antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum women. Methodology: In early 1996, a cross-sectional survey was conducted in three villages outside ICDDR.B Matlab intervention and comparison area... -
Impact of lactational performance on calcium metabolism through bone mass density in marginally nourished Bangladeshi women
Objective: See the impact of breast-feeding behaviour/or pattern on bone mass density (BMD) in a group of Bangladeshi women. Methodology: Four hundred Bangladeshi women aged 20-81 years were studied for their nutritional statu... -
Determinants of haemoglobin level during pregnancy and relationship with pregnancy outcome in Bangladeshi urban poor
Objective: Investigate the determinants of haemoglobin (Hb) level during pregnancy and relationship with the pregnancy outcome in Bangladeshi urban poor. Methodology: As part of a zinc supplementation trial, 559 women from Dhaka ur... -
Exclusive breast-feeding reduces ARI and diarrhoea deaths among infants in
Objective: Describe the breast-feeding practices and assess the effect of exclusive breast-feeding in early infancy on the risk of infant deaths, especially those due to acute respiratory infections (ARI) and diarrhoea. Methodology:... -
Breastmilk retinol levels in Bangladeshi mothers: reflection on the serum retinol level of infants
Objective: Examine the retinol levels in breastmillc and serum of 32 mothers and same from cord blood and serum of infants of urban middle class families. Methodology: Colostrum and morning collection of full expression o... -
Effectiveness of an iron supplementation programme for pregnant and postpartum women in rural Bangladesh
Objective: Compare the levels of anaemia in a population served by an iron supplementation programme with that in other rural populations in Bangladesh: Methodology: Haemoglobin concentration was determined from a venous sample of&... -
Effects of age, duration of illness and infecting species on the pathology of fatal childhood shigellosis
Objective: Understand the pathogenesis of the complications and the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in the persistence of the diarrhoeal illness, and determine the severity of colitis associated with infection due to different species&#x... -
Presence of a daughter in the family and old-age survival of mothers in Matlab, Bangladesh
Objective: Examine if having a daughter in the household improves the survival of older women in Bangladesh. Methods: Data for this study came from the ICDDR,B's Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) which records all vita... -
A qualitative study of the problem-solving process in obstetric complications: the gap between home and hospital
Objective: Investigate the health care-seeking process in case of obstetric complications, referring to the sequence of events prior to admission in the hospital, and assess the clients' satisfaction with hospital services. Methods:... -
Mortality pattern of women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh
Objective: Analyze the causes of death of women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh and interpret results in the light of the contraceptive prevalence rate. Methods: Causes of death for all women dying between January... -
Survival potential of non-culturable vibrio cholerae 01 by laboratory
Objective: Assess the survival potential of V, cholerae 01 using conventional cultural, fluorescent antibody and recently developed polymerase chain reaction techniques. In Bangladesh, cholera is endemic in certain areas and flares into ... -
Inhibition of cholera toxin-induced salt and water secretion by short-chain fatty acids in vivo
Objective: Determine the effect of SCFAs on cholera toxin-induced colonic secretion. Short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) produced by the fermentation of unabsorbed carbohydrates by the colonic bacteria have been shown to&#... -
Oxidative stress in patients with severe cholera
Objective: Determine the adverse metabolic effects of oxidative stress in cholera. Oxidative stress is an adverse metabolic condition induced by the Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). These ROS are produced and catabolized by specific e... -
Efficacy of tetracycline in the treatment of cholera due to vibrio cholerae O139
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of tetracycline in the treatment of acute watery diarrhoea due to V. cholerae 0139. Methods: A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial was carried out during September through Nove... -
Comparison of the efficacy of a single-dose ciprofloxacin and of a single-dose doxycycline in the treatment of cholera
Objective: Compare the efficacy of a single 1 g dose of ciprofloxacin with that of a single 300 mg dose of doxycycline in the treatment of cholera due to V. cholerae 0139. Methods: More than 100,000 diarrhoea&#x... -
Effects of outreach workers' visits on perceived quality of care in two rural areas of Bangladesh
Objective: Provide information on rural women's perceptions of the regularity and the quality of care provided by the government family planning programme, especially by the female field workers. Methods: Working within the gov...
Publications in this collection
Author
- Alam, D.S. 2
- Albert, M.J. 2
- Amin, Selina 2
- Azad, A.K. 2
- Aziz, K.M.A. 2
- Bhattacharya, M.K. 2
- Butler, T. 2
- Chakraborty, J. 2
- Chowdhury, A.K. 2
- Chowdhury, H.R. 2
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Subject
- Bangladesh 20
- Cholera 15
- Diarrhea 8
- Vibrio cholerae 8
- Women 7
- Infantile, Diarrhea 5
- Shigella 4
- Shigella dysenteriae 3
- Breast Feeding 2
- Breast feeding 2
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Date issued
- 2000 - 2007 24
- 1990 - 1999 21
- 1980 - 1989 3
- 1968 - 1969 2