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Primary healthcare in later life: improving services in Bangladesh and Vietnam (PHILL): post-intervention report on qualitative data
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2005-11)
When thinking of the development of primary healthcare, the position of older people within
households and communities should be taken into account. Relationships between primary
healthcare and infonnal support for older ...
Women focused development intervention reduces neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a study of the pathways of influence
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-05)
Background: There has been a substantial reduction in hazard of childhood death in
Bangladesh over the last decade. The reduction was much greater in case of infants
whose mothers participated in the development program. ...
Primary Healthcare Later Life (PHILL) improving services in Bangladesh and Vietnam
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2004)
The Primary Health-Care in Later Life: Improving Service in Bangladesh and Vietnam
(PHILL) project seeks to identify the effectiveness of low-cost, preventive and health promotion
interventions in improving the primary ...
Monitoring the status of health equity in Bangladesh: the BHEW Survey 2002
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2003-03)
Morbidity prevalence and health care-seeking behavior of BRAC member and non-member households households: evidences from Matlab. Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)
Understanding the morbidity profile-and health care seeking behaviour of socioeconomic
strata of the community is important for planning and delivery of appropriate health
services, especially for the poor. This paper ...
Muktagacha: a targeted nutrition project in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997-12)
Malnutrition is one of the major public health problems in Bangladesh. Since 1993,
BRAC, a national non-governmental organisation (NGO), has been carrying out a
targeted nutrition project in a thana (sub-district) of ...
Oral administration of misoprostol reduces postpartum Haemorrhage in urban slums of Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2013-04)
To avert deaths from postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), Manoshi initiated community
health workers (CHW) administered oral misoprostol (400~g) to women following
childbirth either at delivery centers or home in slums of Dhaka ...
Household sanitation and hygiene practices of BRAC member and non-member households: evidences from Matlab, Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)
Provision of potable water and sanitation facilities for the vast majority of the
poverty-stricken people of developing countries remains a formidable challenge for sustainable
development To accomplish this task, policy ...
Assessment of supplementary food in Muktagacha pilot nutrition initiative of BRAC
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1996-07)
Food supplementation refers to providing additional food to the nutritional deprived
population in addition to their regular diet to reduce or meet the gap between intake and
requirement in order to improve their nutritional ...
The incentives and constraints of government doctors in primary healthcare facilities in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2008-11)