http://hdl.handle.net/10361/46 2013-05-19T02:23:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/673 Demographic and health scenario of tribal people in Rangamati Sadar Thana Mullah, Muhammad Abu Shadeque; Parveen, Nabila; Ahshanullah, Mohammad In South East Asia, Bangladesh is a densely populated country with a well-off tribal presence. Around 58 tribes are living in different parts of the country. Bangladesh has 1.2 million tribal people, which is just above 1 percent of the total population. Whatever the inhabitants they diverge in their traditional social organization, marital customs, rites and rituals, food and other customs from the people of the rest of the country. This paper presents a short description of the demographic and health characteristics of the Tribal people of Rangamati Sadar Thana on the basis of data collected through a field survey. This paper also discovers that the tribal people are lagging behind the general population with respect to demographic, health, political and technological standings and still living with outdated lifestyle and principles. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/670 Teachers quality and teacher education at primary education sub-sector in Bangladesh Mullick, Jahirul Islam; Sheesh, Sameeo The paper discusses the standard of teaching, skills and based on the standards the problems regarding the teachers’ qualification in Bangladesh. It highlights that insufficient knowledge about content pedagogy, not paying adequate attention to intellectual, social, and personal development, ignoring the issues about the diversity of learners, improper and limited use of multiple-instructional strategies, practicing one-way communication, assessing the students’ performance through the conventional methods are the major problems related to teaching skills of primary school teachers in Bangladesh. The article also reveals the shortcomings of the curriculum of Certificate in Education (C-in-Ed), an initial pre-service training for the primary school teachers, e.g., by nature the C-in-Ed curriculum is over-theoretical and it allows the trainee teachers a little time to engage in practice teaching. Besides that, the way forward to producing better qualified teachers have also been discussed in the article. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/419 The stability of a mathematical model in the presence of a preventive vaccine Rahman, Kazi Aminur; Jannatun, Nayeem; Salek, Mr. Md. Abu Various kinds of deterministic models for the spread of infectious disease in populations have been analyzed mathematically and applied to specific diseases. In this paper a deterministic model for the dynamics of an infectious disease in the presence of a preventive vaccine is formulated. The model is a special case of a more general model, which is also applicable to other models of infectious diseases. The three dimensional model which assumes a non-linear incidence rate is analyzed qualitatively to determine the stability of its equilibria. This model is used to investigate the potential impact of the optimal vaccine coverage threshold needed for disease control and eradication 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10361/415 Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya sebikas of BRAC in Bangladesh Ahmed, Syed Masud To mitigate the income-erosion effect of illness and vulnerability of the poor households, BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO, integrates Essential Health Care (EHC) activities with its microcredit-based poverty-alleviation interventions. The EHC delivers preventive and basic curative health services to the villagers through Shasthya Sebika (SS) who is the community health worker selected from among the village-based women's credit group members who is willing to provide voluntary services, and acceptable to the community she serves. The SSs receive four weeks basic residential training backed up by regular monthly refreshers. For specific programmes such as DOTS, community-based ARI, or safe motherhood, the SSs are given additional training. Each SS covers around 250 households, and she makes at least once a month visit to the households. During these visits, they disseminate health, nutrition and family planning messages, motivate to install tube-wells and sanitary latrines, identify and register pregnancy cases, identify TB suspects for sputum examination, provide treatment for common illnesses and sell health commodities. The SSs work on voluntary basis but earn some income from the sale of health commodities. Meticulous selection, training, supportive supervision, functional referral linkage and performance-based incentives are key factors responsible for the sustenance of the model till date. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z