Browsing James P. Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH) by Subject "BRAC"
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An assessment of knowledge and uptake of COVID-19 vaccine among the school going students at Cox Bazar in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2023)Adequate knowledge about COVID-19 vaccination among school students is necessary after the re-opening of schools to ensure that the students stay protected from COVID-19. BRAC has implemented interventions in the selected ... -
Experiences of volunteers as change agents for prevention of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh: an exploratory qualitative study
(Brac University, 2023)Background: Community volunteers are an important backbone for engaging communities to bring about health related behaviour change among the people of the communities. In recent years the pandemic due to Coronavirus 2019 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A qualitative study on implementer’s perspective of success and challenges: Interactive Popular Theatre (IPT) component of BRAC CST
(Brac University, 2023)Interactive popular theater (IPT) has been used as a public health education tool for decades in different countries of the world. Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) conducted IPTs in the Cox’s bazar districts ... -
Understanding the implementer’s experiences for identifying key facilitators and bottlenecks of BRAC Community Support Team (CST) Cox’s Bazar project for COVID-19 prevention, Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of managerial perspectives
(Brac University, 2023)Introduction: Recent research has highlighted the significance of understanding a managers' perspective for improving implementation to successfully execute interventions. It is still largely unexplored how their experiences ...