AMR Chowdhury Publications Volume V: 2002-2008 (July)
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Item A new school of public health in Bangladesh(World Health Organization, 2005) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Arsenic crisis in Bangladesh(Scientific American, 2004) 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 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 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 Gender and rural-urban differences in reported health status by older people in Bangladesh(Elsevier, 2003) Kabir, Zarina Nahar; Tishelman, Carol; Torres, Hedda Aguero; Winblad, Bengt; Hojer, Bengt; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Getting women to hospital is not enough aqualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh(QSHC online, 2008) Pitchforth, E; Teijlingen, Evan; Graham, W; Dixon-Woods, M; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Harnessing social capital for health, security, and development in Bangladesh(Global Health Challenges for Human Security, 2004) Adams, Alayne; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Immunization divide who do get vaccinated in Bangladesh(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), 2003) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Bhuiya, Abbas; Mahmud, Simeen; Salam, A.K.M. Abdus; Karim, FazlulItem Importance of health research in South Asia(BMJ, 2008) Sadana, Ritu; D'Souza, Carol; Hyder, Adnan A; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Improving the health of populations lessons of experience(BRAC, 2005) Medlin, Carol Ann; Jamison, Dean T.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Measham, Anthony R.Item Informed choices for attaining the Millennium Development Goals towards: an international cooperative agenda for health-systems research(The Lancet, 2004) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Knowledge to action evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership(Development in Practice, 2002) Solomon, Marla J.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Measuring perceived health outcomes in non-western culture: Does SF-36 have a place?(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), 2002) Chowdhury, A.M..R.; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Rana, A.K.M. Masud; Bhuiya, AbbasItem Overview of children adolescents and family health section(American Public Health Association, 2008) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Pieter Streefland: A friend(Medische Antropologie, 2008) Chowdhury, A.M..R.Item Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment what future for community health workers(Social Science & Medicine, 2008) Standing, H.; Chowdhury, A.M..R.This paper is concerned with how poor populations can obtain access to trusted, competent knowledge and services in increasingly pluralistic health systems where unregulated markets for health knowledge and services dominate. The term "unregulated" here derives from the literature on the development of markets in low-income countries and refers to the lack of state enforcement of formal laws and regulations. We approach this question of access through the changing roles and fortunes of community health workers over the last few decades and ask what kind of role they can be expected to play in the future. Community-based health agents have been used in many settings as a way of filling gaps in service provision where more skilled personnel are not available. They have also fulfilled a more transformative role in broad-based community development. We explore the reasons for the decline of programmes from the 1980s onwards. Using the specific experience of Bangladesh, the paper considers what lessons can be learned from past successes and failures, and what needs to change to meet the challenges of 21st-century health systems. These challenges are those of establishing credibility and legitimacy in a pluralistic environment and creating a sustainable livelihood strategy. 1be article concludes with a discussion of four potential models of community-based health 1 dgents which are not necessarily exclusive: a generic agent that is closely linked to a reputable supervisory agency; a specialist cadre working with particular health conditions; an expert advocate; and a mobiliser or facilitator who can mediate between users and health markets.Item Promoting maternal health gender equity in Bangladesh(British Journal Of Midwifery, 2007) Afsana, Kawsar; Rashid, Sabina Falz; Theobald, Sally; Chowdhury, A.M..R.