The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon gets intensified in the process of urbanization, which increases vulnerability dwellers to heatwaves. UHI-induced heatwaves has increased Bangladesh during past decades. Thus, this study aims examine UHI and city Dhaka using a index (HVI). HVI is constructed various demographic, socioeconomic, environmental risk variables at thana level. Principal componen...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of weight reduction in obese infertile women on conception rate spontaneously as well as with ovulation induction and pregnancy outcome. STUDY DESIGN Observational experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Different private clinics at Mirpurkhas, Thana Bola Khan and Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, from March 2008 to February 2011. METHODOLOGY Infertile wom...

During the summer of 1930, a very severe epidemic of cholera broke out in several villages of the Faridpur district, accounting for a total of 3,445 cases amongst a population of only 256,249; of the latter, 52,295 were inoculated at the beginning of the epidemic with one cubic centimetre of cholera vaccine prepared in the Bengal Vaccine Laboratory with local strains. As in some instances a few...

Background: Chikungunya virus is common in Bangladesh. Objective: The aim of the study was to estimate post-outbreak seroprevalence chikungunya infection a Bangladeshi urban slum population. Methodology: From April May 2018, cross-sectional conducted Bauniabadh, an underprivileged area Mirpur Thana (subdistrict), Dhaka, Randomly selected residents this were interviewed and screened for IgM IgG ...

The drug use pattern and the quality of care were assessed in 80 public sector facilities throughout rural Bangladesh. A total of 40 thana health complexes and 40 union subcentres, the lowest level in primary health care facilities, were selected at random. A total of 2880 prescriptions, consultations, and drug-dispensing practices were studied, and the availability and use of essential drugs a...

Infant and child are not only the assets but also they are the future of a country or a nation. Women are core of development because they bear children and they are nearly half of the total population. Infant and child mortality are powerful indicators to measure overall health situation of a country. In fact, infant and child mortality are also powerful social indicator. The aim of this study...