Recently added articles from Journal of Health Population and Nutrition:
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; ... In early 2006, scientists at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) proposed to the Office of the Population, Health, and Nutrition at the USAID Mission in Dhaka a review of some major health issues of Bangladesh--at least those in which ICDDR,B has ...
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for health and nutrition in Bangladesh: key issues and interventions--an introduction.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Newcomers to Bangladesh tend to consider this to be a small country because of its small geographic size. However, public-health professionals are less focused on the size of the landmass than they are on the size of the population. Geographic and environmental features shown on maps do ...
Infectious diseases and vaccine sciences: strategic directions.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Despite substantial progress, infectious diseases remain important causes of ill-health and premature deaths in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has experienced a >90% reduction in the incidence of deaths due to childhood diarrhoea over the last 25 years. Further reductions can ...
HIV and AIDS in Bangladesh.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Bangladesh initiated an early response to the HIV epidemic starting in the mid-1980s. Since then, the response has been enhanced considerably, and many HIV-prevention interventions among the most at-risk populations and the general youth are being undertaken. Alongside ...
Nutrition: basis for healthy children and mothers in Bangladesh.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Recent data from the World Health Organization showed that about 60% of all deaths, occurring among children aged less than five years (under-five children) in developing countries, could be attributed to malnutrition. It has been estimated that nearly 50.6 million ...
Micronutrients and anaemia.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of ...
Zinc treatment to under-five children: applications to improve child survival and reduce burden of disease.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Zinc is an essential micronutrient associated with over 300 biological functions. Marginal zinc deficiency states are common among children living in poverty and exposed to diets either low in zinc or high in phytates that compromise zinc uptake. These children are at ...
Action monitoring for equity and gender in health.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Equity and gender, despite being universal concerns for all health programmes in Bangladesh, are often missing in many of the health agenda. The health programmes fail to address these important dimensions unless these are specifically included in the planning stage of ...