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From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh
(International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015-06)
Introduction: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to
well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance ...
Electric and lighting energy audit: a case study of selective commercial buildings in Dhaka
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
Energy audit can be one of the fastest and cheapest solutions to mitigate the gap between energy demand and supply since it identifies the energy loss and improvement areas. The paper shows a detailed analysis on building ...
Towards Sustainable Development Goals: Indexing the performance of Bangladesh in achieving the MDGs
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2015-11)
The study evaluated the performance of regions in Bangladesh, both across divisions and districts, in their attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Based on the data from the Multiple Cluster Survey and applying ...
Utilization of maternal health services among adolescent women in Bangladesh: a scoping review of the literature
(Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2015-07)
objective To understand the health-seeking behaviour of adolescent women in Bangladesh with
respect to the use of maternal health services.
methods Literature review of seven electronic databases: PubMed, ISI Web of ...
“Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladesh
(Science Direct, 2015-11)
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation ...
Knowledge and attitude of key community members towards tuberculosis: mixed method study from BRAC TB control areas in Bangladesh
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background: Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme adopted a number of strategies to facilitate TB diagnosis and treatment. 'Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization' (ACSM) was one of the key ...
Understanding the lives of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in rural Bangladesh: use of mixed methods
(© 2015 Action for Disability Regional Rehabilitation Centre, 2015-06)
Cerebral palsy is the most prevalent health condition linked to childhood
disability in Bangladesh, yet support and rehabilitation for this group is limited.
Understanding the impact of cerebral palsy at family level is ...
Childhood malnutrition in households with contemporary siblings: a scenario from urban Bangladesh
(© 2015 Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
This study aimed to determine the effect of the presence of under-5 siblings (≥1) in a household on childhood malnutrition in urban Bangladesh. During 2000 and 2013, a total of 16 948 under-5 children were enrolled in the ...