Climate change is associated with accelerated global warming, rising sea levels, and increased frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and flooding. It is critical to understand the impact of these trends and events on human livelihoods and health as part of ongoing efforts to help affected communities prepare against or adapt to climate change.
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Supporting working mothers can save children’s lives
New research by icddr,b in Bangladesh urges government to support measures to ensure balance between childcare and work for mothers. In almost all societies across the world, women play a vital role in the family structure responsible for the health and wellbeing of all family members. Usually they are assigned, by custom and norm, to
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icddr,b and partners explore pathways of antibiotic use in Bangladesh and ways to intervene
A new study with icddr,b and collaborators is looking at how antibiotics are used by people in Bangladesh for illness in humans and also for their livestock and animals. In collaboration with Loughborough University, Durham University and the University of Bristol, UK the study, titled Pathways of antibiotic use in Bangladesh (PAUSE) has identified important
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mHealth platform can help reduce diarrhoeal diseases
mHealth decision support may increase adherence to WHO guideline in treating diarrheal patients significantly, suggests new initial observations from an icddr,b study in collaboration with Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in Bangladesh. Diarrheal disease globally remains the second leading cause of death for
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Health insurance critical to achieving universal health coverage
Bangladesh has taken considerable steps to ensure UHC can be achieved by 2030, but it still remains an uphill battle. The government’s low health spend, 2.8 per cent of its GDP – one of the smallest in the world, has led to substantial out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditures, rising from 55.9 per cent in 1997 to
