have been the main determinants of maternal and child health outcomes in Bangladesh over this period? (3) Given these … here relates to Bangladesh, a country which has made spectacular progress but needs to maintain momentum in order to … achieve its own poverty reduction goals. The report addresses the following issues: (1) What has happened to child health and …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

This article analyses health inequalities of Bangladeshi population by using gini index, health concentration index …, slope index, and relative index. The result of gini index confirms that there is a substantial gap health status of … population. It is to be visualized that concentration index for education and income are 0.24 and 0.17. This means that health is …

research and examples. This research has been carried out on two cities: Melbourne in Australia and Dhaka in Bangladesh. The … residents' physical and mental health status. Therefore, there is an urgent need for intensive research in both cities for … health as well as to find out remedies to reduce such harmful effects …

Coastal areas of Bangladesh more vulnerable in terms of climate change, and coastal zone experience the adversative …-monsoon and post-monsoon season. Bangladesh coastal zone could be labeled a geographical “death trap” due to its extreme … negatively affected food security, people lives and health condition. People of this areas face challenges to cope with a post …

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …

generated by the Female Secondary School Stipend Program in Bangladesh, which made secondary education free for rural girls. Our … assortative mating. Those educated women appear to experience greater autonomy in making decisions on receiving their own health … care and visiting their family. Furthermore, educated women have lower fertility and use more maternal health care, and …

Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …