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Item A new school of public health in Bangladesh(World Health Organization, 2005) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Aging trends-making an invisible population visible: the elderly in Bangladesh(Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology, 1998) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Kabir, Zarina NaharItem Anaemia among non-pregnant women in rural Bangladesh(Public Health Nutrition, 2000) Ekstrom, Eva-Charlotte; Hyder, SM Ziauddin; Persson, Lars-Ake; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Arsenic crisis in Bangladesh(Scientific American, 2004) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Bangladesh politics, development and perspectives of the poor(The Journal of Social Studies, 1998) Alam, Aminul M.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Bangladesh: la démocratie contre les pauvres(BRAC, 1999) Alam, Aminul M.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Beliefs and practices regarding delivery and postpartum maternal morbidity in rural Bangladesh(1995) Goodburn, Elizabeth A.; Gazi, Rukhsana; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Beneficial effects of a woman-focused development programme on child survival evidence from rural Bangladesh(Social Science & Medicine, 2002) Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Change in health knowledge of Bangladeshi children five years experience(Public Health, 2001) Nath, S.R.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Chronic energy deficiency in women from rural Bangladesh: some socioeconomic determinants(Cambridge University Press, 1998) Ahmed, Syed Masud; Adams, Alayne; Bhuiya, Abbas; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Community health workers role in DOTS(Health Action, 1999) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Control of tuberculosis by community health workers in Bangladesh(The Lancet, 1997) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Vaughen, J Patrick; Chowdhury, Sadia; Islam, Md. Nazrul; Islam, AkramulItem Cultural incorporation of ORT message(The Lancet, 1993) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Cash, Richard A.Item Demystifying the control of tuberculosis in rural Bangladesh(Imperial College Press, 1999) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Abed, Fazle Hasan; Vaughen, J Patrick; Chowdhury, SadiaItem Do side-effects reduce compliance to iron supplementation: a study of daily- and weekly-dose regimens in pregnancy(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), 2002) Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin; Persson, Lars Ake; Ekstrom, Eva-Charlotte; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Side-effects of iron supplementation lead to poor compliance. A weekly-dose schedule of iron supplementation rather than a daily-dose regimen has been suggested to produce fewer side-effects, thereby achieving a higher compliance. This study compared side-effects of iron supplementation and their impact on compliance among pregnant women in Bangladesh. These women were assigned to receive either weekly doses of 2x60 mg iron (one tablet each Friday morning and evening) or a daily dose of I x60 mg iron. Fifty antenatal care centres were randomly assigned to prescribe either a weekly- or a daily-supplementation regimen (86 women in each group). Side-effects were assessed by recall after one month of supplementation and used for predicting compliance in the second and third months of supplementation. Compliance was monitored using a pill bottle equipped with an electronic counting device that recorded date and time whenever the pill bottle was opened. Of five gastrointestinal side-effects (heartburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, or constipation) assessed, vomiting occurred more frequently in the weekly group (21 %) than in the daily group (11 %. p<0.05). Compliance (ratio between observed and recommended tablet intake) was significantly higher in the weekly supplementation regimen (93%) than in the daily-supplementation regimen (61 %, p<0.05). Overall, gastrointestinal side-effects were not significantly associated with compliance. However. the presence of nausea and/or vomiting reduced compliance in both regimens, but only among women from the lower socioeconomic group. In conclusion, weekly supplementation of iron in pregnancy had a higher compliance compared to daily supplementation of iron despite a higher frequency of sideeffects. The findings support the view that gastrointestinal side-effects generally have a limited influence on compliance, at least in the dose ranges studied. Efforts to further reduce side-effects of iron supplementation may not be a successful strategy for improving compliance and effectiveness of antenatal iron supplementation.Item Effectiveness of antenatal risk screening: a preliminary analysis of pregnancy records from BRAC's Women's Health and Development Program(BRAC, 1996) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Chowdhury, S.A.Item Efficacy and trial effectiveness of weekly and daily iron supplementation among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh(The American journal Of Clinical Nutrition, 2002) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Equity gains in Bangladesh primary education(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Nath, S.R.; Chowdhury, Rasheda KItem Evaluation of the impact of weaning food messages on infant feeding practices and child growth in rural Bangladesh(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Brown, L.V.; Zeitlin, Marian F.; Peterson, Karen E.; Gershoff, Stanley N.; Weld, Leisa H.; Rogers, Batrice L.Item Expanded programme in immunization and nutrition of under-five children: experiences from Matlab Bangladesh(Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, 1998) Ahmed, S.M.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.