Public health sciences research papers
195 publications available
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Community-based health workers achieve high coverage in neonatal intervention trials: a case study from Sylhet, Bangladesh
A large proportion of four million neonatal deaths occur each year during the first 24 hours of life. Research is particularly needed to determine the efficacy of interventions during the first 24 hours. Large cadres of&#x... -
Manual for the use of pictorial card and pregnant women register for emergency obstetric care
Maternal morality ratio in Bangladegh at 4.5 per 1,000 live births is one of the highest in the world. Although Bangladesh has an extensive health and family planning service-delivery network starting from the community to ... -
Relationships of exclusion and cohesion with health: the case of Bangladesh
The concept of social exclusion, applied widely in the European Union, has in recent years been gaining use in Bangladesh, mostly by international development agencies. Does this discourse of deprivation, developed in the welfare&#x... -
Paramedic-conducted mental health counselling for abused women in rural Bangladesh: an evaluation from the perspective of participants
This paper reports on evaluation of an initiative to use paramedics as the first-level mental health counsellors of abused women in rural Bangladesh (2003-2004) from the perspective of the abused women who participated in one&#... -
Public-sector maternal health programmes and services for rural Bangladesh
Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 in Bangladesh calls for an appreciation of the evolution of maternal healthcare within the national health system to date plus a projection of future needs. This paper assesses the develo... -
Action monitoring for equity and gender in health
Equity and gender, despite being universal concerns for all health programmes in Bangladesh, are often missing in many of the health agenda. The health programmes fail to address these important dimensions unless these are spec... -
Reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal health: Bangladesh and MDG 5
Bangladesh is on its way to achieving the MDG 5 target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, but the annual rate of decline needs to triple. Although the use of skilled ... -
Spousal violence in Bangladesh: a call for a public-health response
Spousal violence against women is a serious public-health issue. Although there is a growing body of literature on this subject, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the prevalence of this violence, the risk fact... -
Sociodemographic characteristics of tobacco consumers in a rural area of Bangladesh
Bangladesh typifies many developing countries experiencing an increasing trend in tobacco consumption. However, little is known about the general pattern of tobacco consumption and about population groups who are more prone to tobacco&#x... -
Factors affecting production of haemolysin by strains of vibrio fluvialis
The in vitro production of haemolysin by Vibrio fluvialis was studied using sheep erythrocyte. The effect of the composition of various media and different concentrations of sodium chloride on the production of haemolysin and h... -
Hand washing with soap reduces diarrhoea and spread of bacterial pathogens in a Bangladesh village
Hand washing with soap and water can prevent the spread of diarrhoeal diseases in areas where comparatively costly interventions, such as supply of safe water and improved sanitation, are not possible. In this study, the p... -
Survival of shigella flexneri in artificial aquatic environment: effects of different physicochemical stress factors
Survival of bacteria in aquatic environment is influenced by the prevailing physicochemical characteristics of water. A study was carried out to assess the effects of temperature, pH, and salinity of water on the survival of&#x...
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Author
- Bhuiya, Abbas 11
- Albert, M. John 9
- Huq, M.I. 9
- Sack, David A. 9
- Mosley, Wiley Henry 8
- Baqui, A.H. 6
- Rahman, Mahfuzar 6
- Chakraborty, J. 5
- Khan, M Shamsul Islam 5
- Mitra, Amal K. 5
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Subject
- Bangladesh 68
- Cholera 40
- Diarrhoea 38
- Public health 19
- Vibrio cholerae 14
- Escherichia coli 10
- Shigella 10
- Diarrhea 9
- Pregnancy 9
- Public Health 9
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Date issued
- 2000 - 2010 109
- 1990 - 1999 39
- 1980 - 1989 32
- 1970 - 1979 4
- 1968 - 1969 11