ReviewJournal of health, population, and nutrition2008
Infectious diseases and vaccine sciences: strategic directions.
Review in Journal of health, population, and nutrition, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of a Behavior Change Intervention with Hand Sanitizer Use and Respiratory Hygiene in Reducing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza among Schoolchildren in Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Trial
- Household-level risk factors for secondary influenza-like illness in a rural area of Bangladesh.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2017Trial
- Women's empowerment and nutritional status of children: new evidence for Bangladesh.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Infectious Diseases in Children: Diagnosing the Impact of Climate Change-Related Disasters Using Integer-Valued Autoregressive Models with Overdispersion.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Partnerships in the introduction of new routine vaccines in Bangladesh: evidence from a prospective process evaluation.BMJ open · 2022Review
- Evaluating the effects between metal mixtures and serum vaccine antibody concentrations in children: a prospective birth cohort study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Consequence of indoor air pollution in rural area of Nepal: a simplified measurement approach.Frontiers in public health · 2015Article
- Tuberculosis: a global health problem.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2010Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Despite substantial progress, infectious diseases remain important causes of ill-health and premature deaths in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has experienced a > 90% reduction in the incidence of deaths due to childhood diarrhoea over the last 25 years. Further reductions can be achieved through the introduction of effective vaccines against rotavirus and improvements in home hygiene, quality of drinking-water, and clinical case management, including appropriate use of oral rehydration solution and zinc. Pneumonia is now the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh, and the pneumonia-specific child mortality is largely unchanged over the last 25 years. Reductions in mortality due to pneumonia can be achieved through the introduction of protein conjugate vaccines against Haemophilus influenza type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae, improvements in case management, including efforts to prevent delays in providing appropriate treatment, and the wider use of zinc. Tuberculosis is responsible for an estimated 70,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh. Although services for directly-observed therapy have expanded markedly, improved case finding and involvement of private practitioners will be important to reduce the burden of disease.
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