Globally, road traffic injury (RTI) causes 1.3 million deaths annually. Almost 90% of all RTI deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. RTI is one of the leading causes of death in Bangladesh; the World Health Organization estimated that it kills over 21,000 people in the country annually. This study describes the current magnitude and risk factors of RTI for different age groups in rur...

Tilapia was introduced to Bangladesh in 1954. Culture of this species is still in its infancy compared to neighboring countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Despite many positive culture attributes of tilapia, culture in Bangladesh may be constrained by different technical, socio-economic, and institutional factors. Some attempts have been made by the Department...

Bangladesh has already experienced the biggest catastrophe in the world due to arsenic contamination of drinking water. This study investigates the association of drinking arsenic-contaminated water (DACW) with both personal and household characteristics of 9116 household respondents using the household data of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2004. Here DACW means that arsen...

OBJECTIVES The informal sector is the dominant area of employment and the economy for any developing country including Bangladesh. The cost of productivity loss due to absence from work or presenteeism with illness has rarely been examined in the Bangladesh context. This current study, therefore, attempted to examine the impact of ill health of informal sector workers on labor productivity, fut...

As a result of an epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases for last few decades, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are being considered as an important cause of mortality and morbidity in many developing countries including Bangladesh. Performing an extensive literature search, we compiled, summarized, and categorized the existing information about CVD mortality and...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature on mental health disorders in Bangladesh to summarize the available data and identify evidence gap...

Bangladesh is a developing country with the literacy rate of 62.5%. Challenges in education sector are huge. There is no doubt that IT is going to bring about a tremendous change in education. The use of ICT in education was more student-centred learning. Because of the world moving rapidly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more important. In ...

Although fertility rate is still high (2.7) compared to other South Asian countries, the total wanted fertility is only 2.3, which clearly shows that average 0.4 pregnancies are unwanted. In Bangladesh, women with unwanted pregnancy are more likely to seek unsafe abortion and it is one of the important causes of maternal mortality and morbidity (Ahmed et al. 2005). The main objective of this st...

This background paper was prepared for a workshop on Climate Change and Health in Bangladesh, held on 19–20 November 2007 in Dhaka. The workshop was organized jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office, Dhaka and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS). The primary objective of this background paper was to facilitate discussion during workshop by providing latest sc...

* Corresponding author and present address: Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO), Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh Abstract – Recent global climate change is the consequence of many human activities; deforestation in the tropics is one of them. The research estimated the amount of carbon flux due to forest cover change by combining satellite i...