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Publications of the Moment

Recognizing April 7, 2009 as
World Health Day



the BDRC provides
a list of recent developmental publications related to
health issues in Bangladesh

  • Ahmed, Faruque; Kausar Afsana; and Mushtaque Chowdhury (2008) BRAC in Health Improvements,
    Paper presented at the Conference on "Bangladesh in the 21st Century" at Harvard University,
    Cambridge, MA (June 13-14, 2008).
  • Ahmed, Syed Masud (2008) Taking healthcare where the community is: the story of the Shasthya Sebikas
    of BRAC in Bangladesh, BRAC University Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 25-35.
  • Ahmed, Tahera; Ashrafunnessa; and Jebunnessa Rahman (2008) Development of a visual inspection
    programme for cervical cancer prevention in Bangladesh, Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 16, No. 32,
    pp. 78-85.
  • Akhter, Rahena; Nur Mohammad Monsur Hassan; Jun Aida; Khurshid Uz Zaman; and Manabu Morita
    (2008) Risk Indicators for Tooth Loss due to Caries and Periodontal Disease in Recipients of Free Dental
    Treatment in an Adult Population in Bangladesh, Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.
    199-208.
  • Akhter, Sanzida and Md. Abdul Wohab (2008) Millennium development goal of improving maternal health
    in Bangladesh: a review of concepts, BRAC University Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 99-112.
  • Alam, Md. Maksud; Mohammad Sujauddin; Gazi Mohammed Asif Iqbal; and Syed Mohammed Shamsul
    Huda (2008) Healthcare waste characterization in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh,
    Waste Management and Research, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 291-296.
  • Alam, Nurul; Jeroen K. van Ginneken; and Ian Timaeus (2009) Determinants of Perceived Morbidity and
    Use of Health Services by Children Less Than 15 Years Old in Rural Bangladesh, Maternal and Child
    Health Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 119-129.
  • Andaleeb, Syed [Saad] (2008) Caring for children: a model of healthcare service quality in Bangladesh,
    International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 339-345.
  • Anwar, I.; M. Sami; N. Akhtar; M. E. Chowdhury; U. Salma; M. Rahman; and M. Koblinsky (2008) Inequity in
    maternal health-care services: evidence from home-based skilled-birth-attendant programmes in
    Bangladesh, Bulletin, (of the) World Health Organization, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 252-259.
  • Ashraf, H.; S. A. Jahan; N. H. Alam; R. Mahmud; S. M. Kamai; M. A. Salam; and N. Gyr (2008) Day-care
    management of severe and very severe pneumonia, without associated comorbidities such as severe
    malnutrition, in an urban health clinic in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol. 93,
    No. 6, pp. 490-494.
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2008) Bangladesh: Urban Primary Health Care Project, Manila, The
    Philippines: Asian Development Bank (ADB), Validation Report, Ref. No. BAN PCV 2008-24, Loan No.
    1538 (July).
  • Azim, Tasnim; Sharful Islam Khan; Fariha Haseen; Nafisa Lira Huq; Lars Henning; Md. Moshtaq Pervez;
    Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury; and Isabelle Sarafian (2008) HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh, Journal of Health,
    Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 311-324.
  • Baqui, Abdullah H.; Shams El-Arifeen; G. L. Darmstadt; S. Ahmed; H. R. Seraji; P. J. Winch; E. K. Williams;
    M. Santosham; R. E. Black; and the Bangladesh Projahnmo Study Group (2008) Differentials in neonatal
    mortality in two adjacent rural areas of Bangladesh: Lessons for neonatal health interventions, Global
    Public Health, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 366-382.
  • Begum, Bilkis A.; Swapan Biswas; and Philip K. Hopke (2008) Assessment of trends and present ambient
    concentrations of PM2.2 and PM10 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Air Quality Atmosphere and Health, Vol. 1, No.
    3, pp. 125-133.
  • Begum, Rashida and Runa Laila (2008) Health Seeking Behavior Versus Reproductive Health Care of
    Rural Women of Reproductive Age (15yr-49yr) in Bangladesh, Paper presented at the Conference on
    "Bangladesh in the 21st Century" at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 13-14, 2008).
  • Bhuiya, Abbas; S. M. A. Hanifi; and Shehrin Shaila Mahmood (2008) Action Monitoring for Equity and
    Gender in Health, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 378-383.
  • Bhuiyan, Afsana Jahan and M. Nazmul Haq (2008) Improving Occupational Safety and Health in
    Bangladesh, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 231-233.
  • Bosch, Alinda M.; Abdullah H. Baqui; and Jeroen K. van Ginneken (2008) Early-life Determinants of
    Stunted Adolescent Girls and Boys in Matlab, Bangladesh, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol.
    26, No. 2, pp. 189-199.
  • Bosch, Alinda M.; Inge Hutter; and Jeroen K. van Ginneken (2008) Perceptions of adolescents and their
    mothers on reproductive and sexual development in Matlab, Bangladesh, International Journal of
    Adolescent Medicine and Health, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 329-342.
  • Caussy, D. and N. D. Priest (2008) Introduction to Arsenic Contamination and Health Risk Assessment with
    Special Reference to Bangladesh, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. 197, pp.
    1-16.
  • Chandra Paul, Amal; K. B. Swapan; Cees A. Spronk; Rob P. E. Niemeijer; and Paul H. M. Spauwen (2008)
    Postburn contracture treatment: A healthcare project in Bangladesh, Burns, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 181-184.
  • Chaudhuri, Anoshua (2008) Revisiting the Impact of a Reproductive Health Intervention on Children's
    Height-for-Age with Evidence from Rural Bangladesh, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol.
    56, No. 3, pp. 619-656.
  • Cherry, Nicola; Kashem Shaikh; Corbett McDonald; and Zafrullah Chowdhury (2008) Stillbirth in rural
    Bangladesh: arsenic exposure and other etiological factors: a report from Gonoshasthaya Kendra,
    Bulletin, (of the) World Health Organization, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 172-177.
  • Chisti, M. J.; S. Huq; S. K. Das; M. A. Malek; T. Ahmed; A. S. G. Faruque; and M. A. Salam (2008)
    Predictors of severe illness in children under age five with concomitant infection with pneumonia and
    diarrhea at a large hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and
    Public Health, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 719-727.
  • Chowdhury, Hedayet and Abu Eusuf (2008) Social Protection for the Poor: A Study on Micro-Health
    Insurance in Bangladesh, Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of Canadian Economic Association
    (CEA) in Vancouver (June 6-9).
  • Chowdhury, Omar Haider (2008) The right to health in Bangladesh, In: Stephen P. Marks (ed.) The right to
    health in comparative perspective (Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard School of Public Health) Chapter 3.
  • Chowdhury, Zafrullah and S. L. Bachman (2009) The people's health center: building primary health care
    in Bangladesh, In: Daniel Perlman, Ananya Roy (eds.) The practice of international health : a case-based
    orientation ( Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press), pp. 34-53 (Chapter 2).
  • Dancer, Diane; Anu Rammohan; and Murray D. Smith (2008) Infant mortality and child nutrition in
    Bangladesh, Health Economics, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 1015-1035.
  • El Arifeen, Shams; Abdullah H. Baqui; Cesar G. Victora; Robert E. Black; Jennifer Bryce; D. M. E. Hoque;
    E. K. Chowdhury; N. Begum; T. Akter; and A. Siddik (2008) Sex and Socioeconomic Differentials in Child
    Health in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Baseline Survey for Evaluating Integrated Management of
    Childhood Illness, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March), pp. 22-35.
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul and Zulfiqar Ali (2009) Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the
    Improving Health of Bangladesh, World Development, Vol. 37, No. 1 (January), pp. 208-218.
  • Faruque, A. S. G.; A. M. Shamsir Ahmed; Tahmeed Ahmed; M. Munirul Islam; Md. Iqbal Hossain, S. K. Roy;
    Nurul Alam; Iqbal Kabir; and David A. Sack (2008) Nutrition: Basis for Healthy Children and Mothers in
    Bangladesh, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 325-339.
  • Fischer Walker, Christa L.; Robert E. Black; and Abdullah H. Baqui (2008) Does Age Affect the Response
    to Zinc Therapy for Diarrhoea in Bangladeshi Infants?, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26,
    No. 1 (March), pp. 105-109.
  • Futures Group International (2009) Achieving the MDGs : the contribution of family planning --
    Bangladesh, Washington, DC, USA: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Health
    Policy Initiative, Task Order 1.
  • Gipson, Jessica D. and Michelle J. Hindin (2008) "Having Another Child Would Be a Life or Death Situation
    for Her'': Understanding Pregnancy Termination Among Couples in Rural Bangladesh, American Journal of
    Public Health, Vol. 98, No. 10, pp. 1827-1832.
  • Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (GoB), Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF),
    Climate Change Cell (2008) Protecting Health from Climate Change, Dhaka, Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of
    Environment and Forest, Climate Change Cell, Paper prepared for World Health Day (7th April).
  • Grimard, Franque and Vivek Prakash (2008) Helping Poor Women's Health: an evaluation of a microcredit
    program targeted at the poorest in Bangladesh, Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of Canadian
    Economic Association (CEA) in Vancouver (June 6-9).
  • Gurmu, Shiferaw and Mohammad Yunus (2008) Tobacco Chewing, Smoking and Health Knowledge:
    Evidence from Bangladesh, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 1-9.
  • Haider, Muhiuddin; Shamsun Nahar Ahamed; and Teresa Leslie (2008) Challenges for Bangladesh to
    conquer avian influenza, International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Vol. 2, No. 4,
    pp. 273-283.
  • Halder, Amal K. and M. Kabir (2008) Child Mortality Inequalities and Linkage with Sanitation Facilities in
    Bangladesh, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 64-73.
  • Haque, Md. Aminul and Amir Mohammad Sayem (2009) Socioeconomic Determinants of Age at First Birth
    in Rural Areas of Bangladesh, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 104-111.
  • Hashizume, Masahiro; Yukiko Wagatsuma; Abu S. G. Faruque; David A. Sack; Taiichi Hayashi; Paul R.
    Hunter; and Ben Armstrong (2008) Factors determining vulnerability to diarrhoea during and after severe
    floods in Bangladesh, Journal of Water and Health, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 323-332.
  • Hasib, Enamul (2008) Bangladesh Public Health Conference 2008, Report of the Bangladesh Public
    Health Conference 2008 at BRAC Inn, Dhaka, Bangladesh (June 13-14).
  • Heck, Julia E.; Jeri W. Nieves; Yu Chen; Faruque Parvez; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf; Joseph H. Graziano; Vesna
    Slavkovich; Geoffrey R. Howe; and Habibul Ahsan (2009) Dietary Intake of Methionine, Cysteine, and
    Protein and Urinary Arsenic Excretion in Bangladesh, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 117, No. 1,
    pp. 99-104.
  • Heinzen, Rebekah R. and John F. P. Bridges (2008) Comparison of four contingent valuation methods to
    estimate the economic value of a pneumococcal vaccine in Bangladesh, International Journal of
    Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 481-487.
  • Hossain, Md. Iqbal; Nina S. Dodd; Tahmeed Ahmed; Golam Mothabbir Miah; Kazi M. Jamil; Baitun Nahar;
    Badrul Alam; and C.B. Mahmood (2009) Experience in Managing Severe Malnutrition in a Government
    Tertiary Treatment Facility in Bangladesh, Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.
    72-79.
  • Huq, Mohammed Nazmul and Tarana Tasnim (2008) Maternal Education and Child Healthcare in
    Bangladesh, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January), pp. 43-51.
  • International Family Planning Perspectives (ed.) (2008) Inequities Remain in Use of Maternal Health Care
    Services in Bangladesh, International Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 98.
  • Islam, Ziaul; Brian Maskery; Andrew Nyamete; Mark S. Horowitz; Mohammad Yunus; and Dale Whittington
    (2008) Private demand for cholera vaccines in rural Matlab, Bangladesh, Health Policy, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp.
    184-195.
  • Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; ICDDR,B; Dhaka Shishu Hospital; and
    Kumudini Hospital (2008) A community-based surveillance to estimate the burden of typhoid fever in
    Bangladeshi children as a prelude to a typhoid vaccine trial, Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins
    University, Bloomberg School of Public Health (for USAID) End of project report (October).
  • Johnston, Heidi Bart and Ruchira Tabassum Naved (2008) Spousal Violence in Bangladesh: A Call for a
    Public-health Response, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 366-
    377.
  • Khan, N. Z.; H. Muslima; M. Bhattacharya; R. Parvin; N. Begum; M. Jahan; D. Begum; S. Akhtar; A. S.
    Ahmed; and Gary L. Darmstadt (2008) Stress in mothers of preterm infants in Bangladesh: associations
    with family, child and maternal factors and children's neuro-development, Child Care Health and
    Development, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 657-664.
  • Khatun, Selina and Mahmudur Rahman (2008) Quality of antenatal care and its dose-response
    relationship with birth weight in a maternal and child health training institute in Bangladesh, Journal of
    Biosocial Science, Vol. 40, No. 3 (May), pp. 321-338.
  • Koblinsky, Marge; Iqbal Anwar; Malay Kanti Mridha; Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury; and Roslin Botlero (2008)
    Reducing Maternal Mortality and Improving Maternal Health: Bangladesh and MDG 5, Journal of Health,
    Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 280-294.
  • Lee, Vanessa; Faruk Ahmed; Shoko Wada; Tahmeed Ahmed; A. M. Shamsir Ahmed; Cadi Parvin Banu;
    and Nasima Akhter (2008) Extent of vitamin A deficiency among rural pregnant women in Bangladesh,
    Public Health Nutrition, Vol. 11, No. 12, pp. 1326-1331.
  • Luby, Stephen P. and Amal K. Halder (2008) Associations among handwashing indicators, wealth, and
    symptoms of childhood respiratory illness in urban Bangladesh, Tropical Medicine and International
    Health, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 835-844.
  • Mahabub-ul-Anwar, M.; U. Rob; and M. N. Talukder (2008) Inequalities in Maternal Health Care Utilization
    in Rural Bangladesh, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 281-298.
  • Mamun, Khawaja A. and Le Wang (2008) Corruption and Health: Evidences from Cross-Country Analysis,
    Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Washington D. C.
    (November 20-23).
  • Mamun, Rashed; Nazrul Islam Mondal; Rafiqul Islam; and M. Kabir (2008) Impact of Some Key Factors on
    Health Complication of the Child Laborers During Work: A Study on Rangpur, Bangladesh, Pakistan
    Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 262-267.
  • Mamun-Al-Mahtab; S. Rahman; M. Khan; and F. Karim (2009) HEV Infection as an Aetiologic Factor for
    Acute Hepatitis: Experience from a Tertiary Hospital in Bangladesh, Journal of Health Population and
    Nutrition, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 14-19.
  • Mannan, M. A. and Jafar Ahmad Hakim; et al. (2008) Creating the conditions for scaling up the integration
    of reproductive health services for men in health and family welfare centers in Bangladesh, Dhaka,
    Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate General of Family Planning; Institute
    of Child and Mother Health; Population Council; and USAID, Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population
    and Reproductive Health, Reproductive health operations research (FRONTIERS), Subproject no. AI05.
    45A (April).
  • Molla, Azizur R. (2008) The Power of Culture in Selecting Health Care Providers in Rural Bangladesh: An
    Ethno Scientific Analysis, Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 26, pp. 35-54.
  • Momin, Md. Abdul (2008) Primary Health Care and Family Planning Project: Progress Report to April 2008,
    Dhaka, Bangladesh: Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) [Funded by DFID].
  • Momin, Md. Abdul; Kate Conroy; Rafiqul Islam; and Malcolm Marks (2008) CLP Primary Health Care and
    Family Planning Pilot Project: Patient Satisfaction Survey, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Chars Livelihoods
    Programme (CLP) [Funded by DFID].
  • Mondal, Dinesh; Mohammad Shafiul Alam; Zehadul Karim; Rashidul Haque; Marleen Boelaert; and Axel
    Kroeger (2008) Present situation of vector-control management in Bangladesh: A wake up call, Health
    Policy, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 369-376.
  • Mullah, Muhammad Abu Shadeque; Nabila Parveen; and Mohammad Ahshanullah (2008) Demographic
    and health scenario of tribal people in Rangamati Sadar Thana, BRAC University Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1,
    pp. 25-35.
  • Nahar, Nurun; Faisal Hossain; and M. Delawer Hossain (2008) Health and Socioeconomic Effects of
    Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Rural Bangladesh: New Evidence from Field Surveys, Journal of
    Environmental Health, Vol. 70, No. 9, pp. 42-47.
  • Nahar, Quamrun and Hosik Min (2008) Trends and determinants of adolescent childbearing in
    Bangladesh, Calverton, MD, USA: Macro International Inc., Demographic and Health Research Division;
    and USAID Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health; DHS working paper,
    no. 48 (August).
  • Nasreen, Zobaida (2008) Poverty and Health Women Working in Tanneries, Dhaka, Bangladesh:
    Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB) (October).
  • Naved, Ruchira Tabassum and Nazneen Akhtar (2008) Spousal Violence Against Women and Suicidal
    Ideation in Bangladesh, Womens Health Issues, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 442-452.
  • Parvez, Faruque; Yu Chen; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf; Alfred Bernard; Xavier Dumont; Vesna Slavkovich; Maria
    Argos; Jeanine D’Armiento; Robert Foronjy; M. Rashidul Hasan; H. E. M. Mahbubul Eunus; Joseph H.
    Graziano; and Habibul Ahsan (2008) Nonmalignant Respiratory Effects of Chronic Arsenic Exposure from
    Drinking Water among Never-Smokers in Bangladesh, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 116, No. 2
    (February), pp. 190-195.
  • Pitt, Mark M.; Mark R. Rosenzweig; and Md. Nazmul Hassan (2008) Short- and Long-Term Health Effects
    of Burning Biomass in the Home in Low-Income Countries, Paper presented at the ASSA 2008 meetings in
    New Orleans.
  • Rahman, M. A. and M. M. Zaman (2008) Smoking and smokeless tobacco consumption: Possible risk
    factors for coronary heart disease among young patients attending a tertiary care cardiac hospital in
    Bangladesh, Public Health, Vol. 122, No. 12, pp. 1331-1338.
  • Rahman, Mahfuzur; Rashed Alam; Tapan Kumar Roy; and Abdul Goni (2008) Mother’s Health Seeking
    Behaviour at Rajshahi District, Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 612-619.
  • Rahman, Mahmuder [interview with] (2008) Bangladesh's arsenic agony, Bulletin, (of the) World Health
    Organization, Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 11-11.
  • Rahman, Mosiur; Sumaiya Abedin; Kamruzzaman; and Nurul Islam (2008) Women’s Empowerment and
    Reproductive Health: Experience from Chapai Nawabganj District in Bangladesh, Pakistan Journal of
    Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 883-888.
  • Rahman, S.; S. Garland; M. Currie; S. N. Tabrizi; M. Rahman; K. Nessa; and F. J. Bowden (2008)
    Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in health clinic attendees complaining of vaginal discharge in
    Bangladesh, International Journal of STD & AIDS, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 772-774.
  • Rahman, T. and M. Asaduzzaman (2008) Marital Adjustment and Mental Health of Middle Class Married
    Women of Bangladesh, Indian Psychological Review, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 139-144.
  • Rana, A. K. M. Masud; Ake Wahlin; Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg; and Zarina Nahar Kabir (2009) Impact of
    health education on health-related quality of life among elderly persons: results from a community-based
    intervention study in rural Bangladesh, Health Promotion International, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 36-45.
  • Rana, A. K.; C. S. Lundborg; A. Wahlin; S. M. Ahmed; and Z. N. Kabir (2008) The impact of health
    education in managing self-reported arthritis-related illness among elderly persons in rural Bangladesh,
    Health Education Research, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 94-105.
  • Razzaque, Mohammad A. and Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique (2008) Health, Physical Activity and
    Intrahousehold Food Allocation: Revisiting the Evidence of Gender Discrimination, In: Abdur Razzaque,
    Bazlul H. Khondker and Selim Raihan (eds.) Capturing Intra-household Distribution and Poverty Incidence:
    A Study on Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh: University of Dhaka, Department of Economics, Bureau of
    Economic Research).
  • Ronsmans, Carine; Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury; Nurul Alam; Marge Koblinsky; and Shams El Arifeen (2008)
    Trends in stillbirths, early and late neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: the role of public health
    interventions, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 269-279.
  • Sack, David A. (2008) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Health and Nutrition in
    Bangladesh: Key Issues and Interventions--An Introduction, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition,
    Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 253-260.
  • Sack, David A. (2008) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh, Journal of Health,
    Population and Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September), pp. 251-252.
  • Salam, Abdus; Tofazzal Hossain; M. N. A. Siddique; and A. M. Shafiqul Alam (2008) Characteristics of
    atmospheric trace gases, particulate matter, and heavy metal pollution in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Air Quality
    Atmosphere and Health, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 101-109.
  • Sarkar, Kamalesh; Baishali Bal; Rita Mukherjee; Sekhar Chakraborty; Suman Saha; Arundhuti Ghosh; and
    Scott Parsons (2008) Sex-trafficking, Violence, Negotiating Skill, and HIV Infection in Brothel-based Sex
    Workers of Eastern India, Adjoining Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, Journal of Health, Population and
    Nutrition, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 223-231.
  • Sarkar, Md. A. Quaiyum and Nasima Akter (2008) Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Small
    and Medium Enterprises of BRAC Bank Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh: BRAC Research Monograph Series
    No. 37 (November).
  • Shannon, Kate; Zeba Mahmud; Azim Asfia; and Mohammed Ali (2008) The Social and Environmental
    Factors Underlying Maternal Malnutrition in Rural Bangladesh: Implications for Reproductive Health and
    Nutrition Programs, Health Care for Women International, Vol. 29, No. 8-9, pp. 826-840.
  • Sundar, Shyam; Dinesh Mondal; Suman Rijal; Sujit Bhattacharya; Hashim Ghalib; Axel Kroeger; Marleen
    Boelaert; Philippe Desjeux; Heide Richter-Airijoki; and Gundel Harms (2008) Implementation research to
    support the initiative on the elimination of kala azar from Bangladesh, India and Nepal - the challenges for
    diagnosis and treatment, Tropical Medicine & International Health, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January), pp. 2-5.
  • Tofail, Fahmida; Marie Vahter; Jena D. Hamadani; Barbro Nermell; Syed N. Huda; Mohammad Yunus;
    Mahfuzar Rahman; and Sally M. Grantham-McGregor (2009) Effect of Arsenic Exposure during Pregnancy
    on Infant Development at 7 Months in Rural Matlab, Bangladesh, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol.
    117, No. 2, pp. 288-293.
  • Uddin, Md. Jashim and Abdul Mannan Choudhury (2008) Reproductive Health Awareness Among
    Adolescent Girls in Rural Bangladesh, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 117-128.
  • Uddin, Md. Jasim; Charles P. Larson; Elizabeth Oliveras; Azharul Islam Khan, M. A. Md. Abdul Quaiyum;
    and Nirod Chandra Saha (2009) Child Immunization Coverage in Rural Hard-to-Reach Haor Areas of
    Bangladesh: Possible Alternative Strategies, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 8-18.
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2008) USAID Country Health Statistical
    Report Bangladesh, Washington, DC, USA: United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
    PN-ADM-363 (May).
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Analysis, Information Management and
    Communication Activity (AIM) Project (2008) USAID Country Health Statistical Report Bangladesh,
    Washington, DC, USA: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Analysis, Information
    Management and Communication Activity (AIM) Project (November).
  • Woodle, Dian; Todd Dickens; Jennifer Fox (2008) Procurement primer for health and family planning
    programs in Bangladesh, Arlington, VA, USA: Prepared by PATH for USAID, DELIVER PROJECT, Task
    Order 1 (June).
  • World Health Organization (WHO) (2008) Getting health to rural communities in Bangladesh, Bulletin, (of
    the) World Health Organization, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 85-86.
  • World Health Organization (WHO) (2008) Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in Bangladesh by lot
    quality-assurance cluster sampling, Weekly Epidemiological Record, Vol. 83, No. 34, pp. 301-306.
  • Zablotska, Lydia B.; Yu Chen; Joseph H. Graziano; Faruque Parvez; Alexander van Geen; Geoffrey R.
    Howe; and Habibul Ahsan (2008) Protective Effects of B Vitamins and Antioxidants on the Risk of Arsenic-
    Related Skin Lesions in Bangladesh, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 116, No. 8, pp. 1056-1062.
  • Zaman, Shahaduz (2009) Ladies Without Lamps: Nurses in Bangladesh, Qualitative Health Research, Vol.
    19, No. 3, pp. 366-374.