Objectives: This study was done to explore the effect of immunization (as specified in EPI) on under-five children's nutritional status in a rural area of Bangladesh. Methods: The data for this study originated from a ...

On April 16 and May 16 .1996, Bangladesh implemented the third and fourth of the six National Immunization Days. On those days oral polio vaccine (OPV) was administered to over 20 million children under 5 years of age. ...

This report describes the association between calorie consumption and socioeconomic status indicators and examines the effect of BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) membership on per capita daily calorie consumption. ...

This report describes the association between calorie consumption and socioeconomic status indicators and examines the effect of BRAC's Rural Development Programme (RDP) membership on per capita daily calorie consumption. ...

BRAC's RDP (Rural Development Programme) targets the poorest of the poor with special emphasis on improving the health and socioeconomic condition of women and children. It is hypothesized that BRAC's economic and ...

The general population of Bangladesh is in poor health, has little access to health facilities, has increasing incidence of STDs and is in close proximity to countries with high rates of HIV/AIDS. Up to date little has ...

This study explores the effect of women's involvement in BRAC's income and health development activities on the nutritional status of their children aged 6-72 months. MUAC measurements of 1,518 children aged 6- 72 months ...

This paper reports results from a prospective study of impact of a woman-focused development programme on child survival in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. A total of 5,567 children born during 1993-96 in the study ...