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Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh
(© 2011 Rashid; licensee BioMed Central Ltd., 2011)
In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent womens human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, ...
Breast cancer in South Asia: a Bangladeshi perspective
(© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014)
South Asian countries are facing a hidden breast cancer epidemic. A significant proportion of the breast cancer cases occur in premenopausal women. Knowledge of the various aspects of breast cancer in different geographical ...
Gestational weight gain and newborn anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh
(Wiley Online Library, 2019-10)
Low gestational weight gain (GWG) is a known predictor of fetal growth restriction in higher income countries, but there is little information on this association in lower income countries. Our objective is to describe the ...
A Review of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh: the millennium development goal era and beyond
(© 2016 MDPI AG, 2016)
Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few ...
Developing the public health workforce in Asia
(© 2014 Taylor and Francis, 2014)
Newborn physical condition and breastfeeding behaviours: Secondary outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial of prenatal lipid-based nutrient supplements in Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2019-10)
Prenatal nutritional supplements may improve birth outcomes. This study aims to examine the effect of prenatal lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS), compared with iron and folic acid (IFA), on general newborn physical ...
The global burden of women's cancers: a grand challenge in global health
(© 2017 The Lancet, 2017-02-25)
Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines whether she will develop one of these cancers ...
Scenario of adolescent sexual and reproductive health with opportunities for information communication and technology use in selected South Asian countries
(© 2015 Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 2015)
Introduction: Regardless of being involved in early sexual activity, significant number of South Asian adolescents gets restricted in making informed decisions on sexual and reproductive practices due to diverse seclusion ...
Intersectoral collaboration: an original way to promote community health promotion
(© 2012 Global Health Promotion, 2012)
Trends and inequities in use of maternal health care services in Bangladesh, 1991-2011
(© 2015 Public Library of Science, 2015)
Background and Methods Monitoring use-inequity is important to measure progress in efforts to address healthinequities. Using data from six Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys (BDHS), we examine trends, inequities ...