| The wider impacts of Brac’s poverty alleviation programmes in Bangladesh |
| AMR Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya |
| Vol - 16 Issue - 3 April - 2004 |
| Journal of International Development |
| Over the decades of the 1980s and 90s many poverty alleviation programmes have been implemented in developing countries. Evaluations of such programmes have traditionally looked at their success in increasing the income levels of participants but less at the wider goals of human well-being.... |
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| Association between nutritional status and arsenicosis due to chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh |
| Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziaul Hasan, SM Shahidullah, Sinthia Sharmin, M Jakariya, Mahfuzar Rahman, Keith Dear, Wayne Smith |
| Vol - 14 Issue - 2 April - 2004 |
| International Journal of Environmental Health Research |
| The role of nutritional factors in arsenic metabolism and toxicity is not clear. Provision of certain low protein diets resulted in decreased excretion of DMA and increased tissue retention of arsenic in experimental studies. This paper reports a prevalence comparison study conducted in Bangladesh to assess the nutritional status among the chronic arsenic exposed and unexposed population.... |
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| Adaptation of Kangaroo Mother Care for Community-Based Application |
| Iftekhar Quesem, NL Solan, A Chowdhury, S Ahmed, B Winikoff, and AMR Cohowdhury |
| Vol - 23 December - 2003 |
| Journal of Perinatology |
| Working with a multidisciplinary team of Ecuadorians, Bangladeshis and Americans, we developed a simple protocol for community-based implementation of kangaroo mother care (CKMC) that does not require birth weight or clinical judgment to identify which newborns should receive CKMC. CKMC could stabilize newborns and possibly reduce neonatal mortality where there is little medical care for newborns and low birth weight (LBW) is common.... |
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| Equity Gains in Bangladesh Primary Education |
| A Mushtaque R Chowdhury , Samir R Nath, Rasheda K Choudhury |
| Vol - 49 Issue - 6 November - 2003 |
| International Review of Education |
| Although equity is a desirable objective of any form of development intervention, including education, not many studies dwell upon this important area. Information on related trends is even more rare. This essay uses field-level data from Bangladesh to examine equity levels and trends in primary education.... |
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| Freire and experimentation of conscientization in a Bangladeshi village |
| M Rafi |
| September - 2003 |
| Economic and Political Weekly |
| In the 1970s most NGOs in developing countries adopted Freire’s model of conscientisation to help the poor take up group action against forces resisting their development.... |
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| Changing health-seeking behaviour in Matlab, Bangladesh: do development interventions matter? |
| Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M Adams, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya |
| Vol - 18 Issue - 3 September - 2003 |
| Health policy and Planning |
| It is generally assumed that socioeconomic development interventions for the poor will enhance their material and social capacities to prevent ill health and to seek appropriate and timely care. Using cross-sectional data from surveys undertaken in 1995 and 1999 as part of the BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project in Matlab, Bangladesh, this paper explores.... |
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| Immunization divide: who gets vaccinated in Bangladesh? |
| AMR Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya, Simeen Mahmud, AKM Abdus Salam, Fazlul Karim |
| Vol - 21 Issue - 3 September - 2003 |
| Journal of Health Population and Nutrition |
| This paper examines inequalities in the use of, and access to, vaccination service in Bangladesh by analyzing national and small area-based datasets. The analysis showed that female children had a lower immunization coverage than male children.... |
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| Understanding the Experience of Household Food Insecurity in Rural Bangladesh Leads to a Measure Different from That Used in Other Countries |
| Edward A. Frongillo, Nusrat Chowdhury, Eva-Charlotte Ekstrom, Ruchira T. Naved |
| September - 2003 |
| Community and International Nutrition |
| This research aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the experience of household food insecurity in rural Bangladesh and to develop a direct measure of it from this understanding.... |
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| Impact of daily and weekly iron supplementation to women in pregnancy and puerperium on haemoglobin and iron status six weeks postpartum: results from a community-based study in Bangladesh |
| SM Ziauddin Hyder, LA Persson, AMR. Chowdhury, B Lonnerdal and E-C Ekstrom |
| Vol - 47 Issue - 1 August - 2003 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition |
| This research assesses whether there is a dose effect of iron supplementation in pregnancy and puerperium on haemoglobin 6 weeks after delivery, and compares the effectiveness of daily and weekly dose regimens at 6 weeks postpartum.... |
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| Does Peer Review Process Exist in Developing-Country Journals?: The Bangladesh Experience |
| Hasan Shareef Ahmed |
| Vol - 34 Issue - 4 July - 2003 |
| Journal of Scholarly Publishing |
| This study explores the effectiveness of the peer review process for scientific journals published in Bangladesh, based on 1997 interviews with forty-three Bangladeshi authors... |
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