Browsing by Author "Chowdhury, AMR"
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Drug abuse in Bangladesh: knowledge, attitude and perceptions of secondary school students
Ahmed, Syed Masud; Chowdhury, Shamim Matin; Rana, AKM Masud; Rahman, Azizur; Chowdhury, AMR (Research and Evaluation Division, Brac, 2001-12) -
Effect of BRAC's rural development programme on calorie consumption: evidence from Matlab
Khatun, Masuma; Hyder, SM Ziauddin; Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)This report describes the association between calorie consumption and socioeconomic status indicators and examines the effect of BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) membership on per capita daily calorie consumption. ... -
Effect of BRAC's rural development programme on calorie consumption: evidence from Matlab
Khatun, Masuma; Hyder, SM Ziauddin; Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)This report describes the association between calorie consumption and socioeconomic status indicators and examines the effect of BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) membership on per capita daily calorie consumption. ... -
Effectiveness of field methods for detecting Arsenic between 0 and 100 ppb in Bangladesh ground water
Nickson, Ross T.; Hossain, Md. Zabed; Jakariya, Md.; Khandakar, Nadim; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1999-11) -
Effectiveness of the daily and weekly doses of iron supplementation in pregnancy and puerperium on Haemoglobin and iron status at 6 weeks postpartum
Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin; Persson, Lars-Ake; Chowdhury, AMR; Lonnerdal, B; Ekstrom, Eva-Charlotte (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000)Objective: Describe the effectiveness of continuous daily and weekly doses of iron supplementation during pregnancy and puerperium on haemoglobin and iron status at 6 weeks postpartum. Design: An iron supplementation ... -
Effects of EPI on nutrition of under-five children In rural Bangladesh: the Matlab experience
Ahmed, Syed Masud; Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-12)Objectives: This study was done to explore the effect of immunization (as specified in EPI) on under-five children's nutritional status in a rural area of Bangladesh. Methods: The data for this study originated from a ... -
Efficacy and trial effectiveness of weekly and daily iron supplementation among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh: disentangling the issues
Ekstrom, Eva-Charlotte; Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin; Chowdhury, AMR; Chowdhury, Sadia A.; Lonnerdal, Bo; Habicht, Jean-Pierre; Persson, Lars Ake (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002)BACKGROUND: According to our current understanding, iron absorption with weekly iron supplements is not higher than that with daily supplements (ie, there is no mucosal block). However, community-based trials have repeatedly ... -
Empowerment through health education: the approach of an NGO in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR (CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1990)The paper describes a health programme in Bangladesh which is distinct in many respects. Instead of providing curative services, the programme is educational; it works with the community in raising awareness, empowers ... -
Enrolment at primary level: gender difference disappears in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Nath, Samir R; Choudhury, Rasheda K. (International Journal of Educational Development, 2002-03)In the recent past, there have been a number of new initiatives to improve the access to primary education in many developing countries. Such initiatives, which came from the public, private and non-governmental (NGO) ... -
Evaluating community ORT programmes: indicators for use and safety
Chowdhury, AMR (© 1986 Oxford University Press, 1986)Community-based oral rehydration programmes to reduce diarrhoea-related mortality have been initiated in many developing countries in recent years. However, to date few evaluation studies have been carried out on these ... -
Exploratory study on BRAC's NGO cooperation project
Karim, Fazlul; Begum, Shamim Ara; Chowdhury, Kabir; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2000-08)BRAC embarked on an NGO Cooperation Project to enhance efficiency of the small and medium NGOs in effective micro-finance management vis-a-vis augmentation of micro-finance activities for poverty alleviation. The newly ... -
Exploring women’s perception on birth process through body mapping
Shahaduzzaman; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-09)To explore women's perception on birth process 'body mapping' exercise was conducted with three different categories of rural women; trained traditional birth attendants (TBA), untrained TBAs and women who had never ... -
Family size preferences among Matlab couples
Khan, Shahriar Reza; Chowdhury, AMR; Bhuiya, Abbas (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1995-12) -
Folk terminology for Diarrhea in rural Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Kabir, Zarina N. (Oxford University Press, 1991-03-01)Diarrhea, a descriptive term used in medical science for a variety of clinical diseases denotes an illness that is categorized differently and known by numerous terms in various cultures. These diversified classifications ... -
Gender barriers to tuberculosis control: fade-out or in? key findings and recommendations from the preliminary analysis
Karim, Fazlul; Begum, Insana; Islam, Akramul; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-09) -
GQAL: from rhetoric to reality
Farashuddin, Fehmin; Khan, Mahmuda Rahman; Mannan, Manzurul; Akter, Shahnuz; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-07)BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) Progranune was initiated in 1994 to improve the quality of programmes with village women and to improve the quality of . gender relations within BR.AC. In its first year of ... -
Historical perspective of immunization in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, AMR; Ihtesham, Kazi (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998) -
Immunisations in enclaved populations: the case of Chittagong Hill tracts and tea estates
Bhuiya, Abbas; Begum, Shamim Ara; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998) -
Impact of BRAC on community health networks: a village study
Begum, Shamim Ara; Hannan, Rowshan; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2001-07)Mere health service provision may be unable to bring about the desired impacts on health outcomes. Such outcome impact is mediated by changes in health seeking behavior underpinned by changes in health kr!Owledge, attitude ... -
Indirect technique for estimating life expectancy from limited data set of BRAC female members
Gani, Md. Showkat; Chowdhury, AMR (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-12)This paper aims to construct the complete life table (L T) from limited data set of the female members of BRAC village organizations (VO) using the INDEPTH (International Network for the continuous Demographic Evaluation ...