Author details International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 5th Floor, (Level-6), icddr,b Building, 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Library R...

s: Scientific Session 1: Health ecology and its potential challenges in Bangladesh by 2050 (50) M Shafiqur Rahman, DGHS. 03 Developing first responder training programme to prevent child drowning in a rural community in Bangladesh: Is it feasible? (43) Syed Jahangir Hussain, CIPRB. 04 Revitalizing Health for All: Developing a comprehensive primary health care model for Bangladesh (37) Taufique ...

Bangladesh, a developing economy, contains trade deficit from her very inception. This paper makes an effort to understand the time series behavior of total export and total import of Bangladesh. Unit root tests recognize the existence of random walk in total export and total import time series. Johansen cointegration test reveals long-run equilibrium relationship between these two variables. G...

Viral hepatitis poses huge burden to the health care delivery system as well as to the economy of Bangladesh. Hepatitis E virus is the leading cause of acute hepatitis in this country, however with the improvement of economic status and sanitation this seems to be on the decline. Hepatitis B virus remains the leading cause in all forms of chronic liver diseases in this country. This virus has b...

Dr. Suman Kumar Singh*, Prof. Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam and Dr. Md. Tanvir Hasan *Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Email : [email protected] Chairman, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal S...

This paper evaluates whether the exchange rate of Bangladesh is mean reverting or not by applying first-generation and second-generation panel unit root test approaches. The paper considers annual data from 1986 to 2011 of major twenty-two trading partners of Bangladesh. Although some inconclusive outcomes emerge from the first-generation tests, the second-generation test reconciles the controv...

arsenic in ground water is a very serious environmental hazard of bangladesh and west bengal of india. the presence of high level of arsenic (

the present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of developmental stages of fasciola gigantica infection in lymnaea snails and their populations in sylhet region of bangladesh. a total of 1865 lymnaea snails were collected and examined, of which 56 (3%) were found to having infected with developmental stages of fasciola gigantica. only 4.08% infected of 515 snails were collected fr...

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable areas to natural disasters in the world. Almost every year different types of natural disasters occur in Bangladesh and destroy many lives and resources of people. Although it is not possible to prevent the occurrence of disasters influenced by natural causes, proper plan, management and human collective participation may minimize the natural disasters o...

In this project, the raw data from a survey, 2011-2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey, is cleaned. Based on the research purpose of the collaborator, important variables are extracted and principal component analysis is used to form a new data set. The iterative clustering technique is applied to the new data set to classify the households involved in the survey into different categorie...