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Double burden of malnutrition among elderly people in Bangladesh: Evidence from the National Nutrition Surveillance Study
(Oxford Academic, 2020-06)
Objectives:
Double burden of malnutrition (DBM), referred as the coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition, is an evolving public health concern. There is a paucity of data about DBM among elderly people in ...
Prenatal and postnatal supplementation with lipid-based nutrient supplements reduces anemia and iron deficiency in 18-month-old Bangladeshi children: A cluster-randomized effectiveness trial
(Oxford Academic, 2018-06-13)
Background: Anemia, iron deficiency (ID), and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) among young children are public health
concerns in developing countries.
Objective: We evaluated the effects of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient ...
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 ...
Helping the poor: BRAC to the future
(The Economist Newspaper Limited, 2019-09-07)
Resistance of rap: an ever struggling battlefield in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2018-12)
The thesis explores the relationship of rap and resistance among youth in urban Bangladesh, situated in a transnational context. I first show how rap, a global phenomenon, becomes localized and gains its resistive nature ...
Traditional healing beliefs and practices in Bagnibari and Samair villages: implications for public health in rural Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2012-12)
Introduction: Traditional medicine plays a vital part in the health care systems of many developing countries. Healers’ knowledge and background, commonly treated illnesses, methods, and the factors leading to communities’ ...
NGO contributions to community health and primary health care: Case studies on BRAC (Bangladesh) and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (India)
(Oxford University Press, 2020-04-30)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries are chiefly a
post-World War II phenomenon. Though they have made important contributions to health
and development among impoverished people throughout ...
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 ...
Monitoring the status of health equity in Bangladesh: the BHEW Survey 2002
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-03)