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Illness perception of tuberculosis (TB) and health seeking practice among urban slum residents of Bangladesh: a qualitative study
(© 2014 BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)
Background: Combating tuberculosis (TB) in urban slums is more complex than in rural areas due to reasons such as over-crowding, unhygienic living conditions and poverty. This study aimed to assess illness perception of ...
Erotic desires and practices in cyberspace: "virtual reality" of the non-heterosexual middle class in Bangladesh
(© 2014 Asian Institute of Technology, 2014)
Sexually diverse and marginalized groups are constantly challenged to create spaces for realizing their sexual fantasies, desires and politics within the all-pervasiveness of heterosexual spaces. Technology has brought ...
Lessons learned in using realist evaluation to assess maternal and newborn health programming in rural Bangladesh
(© 2016 Oxford University Press, 2016)
Realist evaluation furnishes valuable insight to public health practitioners and policy makers about how and why interventions work or don't work. Moving beyond binary measures of success or failure, it provides a systematic ...
Qualitative insights into promotion of pharmaceutical products in Bangladesh: how ethical are the practices?
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background: The pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh is highly concentrated (top ten control around 70 % of the market). Due to high competition aggressive marketing strategies are adopted for greater market share, which ...
Score based risk assessment of lung cancer and its evaluation for Bangladeshi people
(© 2014 Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, 2014)
Background: The problem of cancer, especially lung cancer, is very acute in Bangladesh. The present study was conducted to evaluate the risk of lung cancer among Bangladeshi people based on hereditary, socio-economic and ...
Users discourses about primary health care professionals in rural Bangladesh
(© 2014 Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2014-12)
Evidence from earlier studies in Bangladesh indicates that an imbalance in status between health professionals and primary healthcare users in rural Bangladesh can lead to corrupt behaviour among health professionals. This ...
Antibiotic use for pneumonia among children under-five at a pediatric hospital in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
(© 2017 Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2017-08-03)
Background: Pneumonia has been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 for more than 3 decades, particularly in low-income countries like Bangladesh. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed ...
Issues with families and children in a disaster context: a qualitative perspective from rural Bangladesh
(© 2015 Elsevier Ltd., 2015-09)
Natural disasters such as floods and cyclones have repeatedly devastated lives and destroyed the belongings of people. This is especially so for children and their families in Bangladesh. This study analyzed the specific ...
Informal allopathic provider knowledge and practice regarding control and prevention of TB in rural Bangladesh
(International Health, 2014-06-17)
Background: BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), in collaboration with the National
Tuberculosis Control Programme, provides one full-day training on TB to make informal allopathic providers
knowledgeable ...
Cultural attitudes toward postpartum depression in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(© 2017 Taylor and Francis Inc., 2017-05-15)
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet in many cultures, it remains unaddressed and unacknowledged. Postpartum depression is particularly delicate because of its association with gender and expectations ...