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A Bhuiya

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PubMed1992

A hazard logit model analysis of covariates of childhood mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh.

In a prospective study in Matlab, a rural area in Bangladesh, the relationship between a variety of covariates and childhood mortality was examined. Economic status of household, education of mother, sex of the children, health intervention programmes, age of mother, and live birth order of the children were identified as having a statistically significant impact on child survival when the effect of age was controlled. The effects of sex of the children, health programmes, age of mother, and birth order were found to be dependent on the age of the children, but the effect of mother's education was dependent on sex of the children.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Village health care providers in Matlab, Bangladesh: a study of their knowledge in the management of childhood diarrhoea.

This study was conducted among village health care providers in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1987. The objectives were to assess their knowledge of childhood diarrhoea and methods of management. All types of health care providers considered diarrhoea as a major childhood disease and opined that treatment should be initiated in case of four or more loose motions a day. Slightly more than half of the allopaths were aware of the scientific causes of diarrhoea; homeopaths and traditional healers in large proportions related diarrhoeal diseases with certain types of food, and 'evil eyes'. Eighty per cent of the allopaths reported use of oral rehydration solution in treating watery diarrhoea against 20% of the others. Prescription of antibiotics in treating dysentery was higher among allopaths than others. Allopaths were also less restrictive regarding continuation of breastfeeding and intake of food during diarrhoea among children.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Malnutrition and child mortality: are socioeconomic factors important?

The influences of household economic condition, maternal education, sex, and nutritional status of children on mortality were examined using multivariate analytical techniques. Weights of around 1700 children aged 2 60 months in five villages of Matlab, Bangladesh, were taken during the first half of 1981. The children were followed for 18 months and their survival was recorded. The severely malnourished children had a risk of death nine times that of their counterparts with better nutritional status. Female children had a higher risk of death than the males. Mother's education and economic condition of household also showed negative relationships with the risk of death, but the effect of mother's education was modified by economic condition and sex of the children.

Bangladesh↗
PubMed1987

Measles case fatality among the under-fives: a multivariate analysis of risk factors in a rural area of Bangladesh.

This study investigated the relationship of measles case fatality among the under-fives with age, case type, complications, sex, mother's education, and household economic condition in a rural area of Bangladesh. A total of 3465 measles cases were detected during 1980 and 61 of them died of measles associated complications within 45 days of rash onset. Case type, sex, mother's education and household economic condition were found to have statistically significant impact on case fatality. Risk of death among the secondary cases was 1.87 times higher than in the primary cases, girls had 2.73 times higher risk of death than boys. Children of mothers without any formal schooling and those from the poorest households experienced 1.83 and 2.18 times higher risk of death than their counterparts whose mothers had at least one year of schooling and from economically better off households respectively.

Bangladesh↗
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Cultural construction of health and institutional measures of change in rural Bangladesh: cases of BRAC's village organization and ICDDR,B's MCH-FP programmes.

The study aims to examine the perceptions, causes, and treatment of diseases among the people of a few selected villages in Matlab and their relation to traditional culture and interventions made by BRAC and ICDDR,B in the form of rural development and MCH-FP programs. Four sets of villages were chosen purposively--two DSS and the other two non-DSS. In one of the DSS villages the MCH-FP program is underway, while the other does not have such programs. Likewise, one of the non-DSS villages has the rural development program of BRAC, while the other does not have any. From each village 10 respondents were selected purposively to gather information. The perception of disease is mostly defined in terms of the functions of the body. On very few occasions it is defined in terms of the action rendered by germs or the pathological condition of the body organs. The difference between the meaning and the actual diseases is often blurred. While identifying the causes, often the reference is made to invisible spirits, locally known as alga batash. The modes of treatment combine both modern and traditional elements. However, the health teaching educates them about the perception, causes, and treatment of certain diseases. In society, the elderly people, religious preachers, and traditional healers play important roles to influence the mind of the people. Sometimes gender relations and other structural features also bear on the minds of the illiterate poor. The difference between the intervention and non-intervention villages is expressed in the fact that the people of the intervention villages are constantly exposed to the agents making changes, while in the non-intervention villages it is intermittent. Traditional culture still plays an important role in the construction of disease perception and the choice of treatment, while modern approaches are combined with it. The intervention procedures widen modern approaches but could not eliminate the traditional notions altogether.

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