One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that caused the death of 146 garment workers, a garment fire on November 24, 2012 in Bangladesh resulted in 111 deaths under remarkably similar circumstances. The majority of these workers were also young women, economically disadvantaged, migrants, and, by any definition, vulnerable. Fires have been a persistent prob...

Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan Institute of Environmental Health, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Centre, Fort Worth, Texas, USA Department of Integrative Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University ...

OBJECTIVES The overall aim of this study is to discern whether and to what degree vaccination sites exhibit constant returns to scale. METHODS Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compare all the facilities in the sample in terms of input costs used to produce multiple outputs. The application considers the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), which operated in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, duri...

Road traffic accidents and the resulting deaths have now emerged as one of the major safety and public health problems in urban areas all over the world. The combination of rapid urbanization and motorization has made the problem even severe for the developing cities of Asia. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is no exception. Official statistics reveal that more than ....... fatalities and ........

Background Globally, dengue has become one of the most alarming infectious diseases and its resurgence reflects the failure of traditional reductionistic disciplinary approach. Because neither an effective vaccine nor an effective vector control program is available for dengue prevention and control, a Community-Based Approach (CBA) to vector control and individual behavior change has been impl...

In this paper, the authors want to implement the solution of combinatorial problem, based on the heuristic behavior of ant. This paper focuses on a highly developed solution procedure using ACO algorithm. This helps to solve routing problems easily. It also reflects the method considering flow, distance, cost, and emergency etc. Here, a new algorithm named UVTR (Update Vehicle Traffic Routing) ...