Background: There is inadequate evidence based information to assist health policy makers in preparing for appropriate health, nutrition and social support guideline for the elderly in Bangladesh. Objective: The present study is an attempt to assess the health and nutritional status of elderly people in selected hospital in Dhaka. Methods: It was a cross sectional descriptive study. The subjects were selected purposively.
of non-pregnant mothers living in the slums suffer from severe malnutrition. About 70% of women in Bangladesh suffer from anaemia [7][8][9]. Following the liberation of Bangladesh, when Dhaka became the capital city and the centre of commercial and economic activities there was a rapid migration of rural people into the city which is still continuing. The rural to urban influx has lead to the development of slums in a large number of places within the city and its fringes with overcrowding, unhygienic and poor sanitary conditions, along with economic insolvency lead to malnutrition and poor health condition. Around half of the city's poor people are concentrated in nearly 3000 densely populated and environmentally hazardous slums and the overall urban growth rate is very high [10,11]. It is very much clear that the health and nutritional status of the city people is quite impossible to improve without improving the health and nutritional status of the slum dwellers, specially, slum mothers. Research on urban slum mothers, specially, on nutrition is very relevant and deserve in depth studies. This could help to explain many of the interrelated variables which come into play in explaining the prevailing situation amongst the urban slum mothers. The purpose of the study was to assess the nutritional status of the women living in slum environment. So the findings of the study might provide a comprehensive picture on nutrition of slum women, which could inform and guide the concerned authorities for undertaking appropriate measures to improve the situation. IntroductionThe prevalence of malnutrition in Bangladesh is among the highest in the world. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition including low birth weight, wasting, stunting, underweight, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder and anemia. Today malnutrition not only affects individual but its effects are passed from one generation to the next as malnourished mothers give birth to infants who struggle to develop and thrive. If these children are girls, they often grow up to become malnourished mothers themselves. Globally, malnutrition is attributed to almost one-half of all child deaths. Survivors are left vulnerable to illnesses, stunted growth and intellectual impairment [1]. The deprivation to women starts from birth in Bangladesh. The socioeconomic, health and nutritional status of women depict gloomy pictures throughout their life [2]. Moreover, like most developing countries, the picture of nutritional status of women is far too serious in the poorer socioeconomic groups who live in the rural areas and urban slums of Bangladesh [3,4]. It has been recognized that infants, children and women of the reproductive age constitute the most vulnerable group from the stand point of nutrition [5]. Malnutrition is the outcome of many complex biological and social processes. The roots of malnutrition run deep into its social soil and it is a matter of thought that malnutrition has not been changed significantly during t...
Background: Globally, slums have been recognized as neglected communities with limited access to services. They are often characterized by deteriorated or poorly structured houses crowded together, poor environmental managements such as deficient access to safe drinking water and sanitation, stagnation of water, and poor drainage with excessive open sewers, excessive amount of uncollected rubbish, severe overcrowding, flies, and poor lighting. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore hygiene practice of the adult domestic household women worker in urban slum area of Dhaka city. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted among adult female domestic household workers ages between 19 to 45 years of the south Monipur slum of Dhaka city. The study was conducted from April 2012 to June 2012. About 95 samples were selected purposively to conduct this study. Results:The mean age of the respondent was 29.32 years. It also found that majority of the respondent (87.37%) were married, 10.53% were separated and 2.11% were divorced. The mean income of the respondent was 2132.63TK. Result found that 76.84% of the respondent use sandal in toilet and 23.16% of the respondent do not use sandal in toilet. It also showed that 69.47% of the respondent use soap everyday in bath and 30.53% of the respondent did not use soap everyday in bath. About 90.53% of the respondent brushing teeth everyday and 9.47% of the respondent did not brush teeth everyday. In addition to this 33.68% of the respondent cut nail regularly and 66.32% of the respondent did not cut nail regularly. Besides 85.26% of the respondent used soap to wash their hand after toilet, 2.11% used ash and 12.63% of the respondent used soil to wash their hand after toilet. Conclusion: The hygiene practice of adult domestic household workers is quite good but the overall practice condition is not in satisfactory state. Further in depth studies are needed to evaluate the actual scenario of the hygiene practice among adult domestic household workers.
Background: Despite the economic growth observed in developing countries, malnutrition is still highly prevalent. The school age is a dynamic period of growth and development. Poor health and malnutrition may impair both the growth and cognitive development of primary school children. The aim of this study carried out the nutritional status and basic hygiene practice among the primary school children in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among 110 primary school children aged between 6 to 12 years at Nilkhet High School in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. The samples were selected by using simple random method and face to face interview adopted through semi structured questionnaire. Nutritional status was determined by according to WHO classification. Collected data were analyzed by using SPSS version of computer technology. Result: Among respondents 66.40%(73) were boys and 33.60%(37) were girls. In case of WAZ, 19.10% were below normal, 79.10% were normal and 1.80% was above normal. In case of HAZ, 11.80% were below normal, 80% were normal and 2.70% were above normal. And in case of WHZ 18.20% were below normal, 55.50% were normal and 1.80% were above normal. Regarding hygiene practice, 100% respondents washed hand before and after meal, as well as 99.10% washed hand after coming home from outside area. For brushing teeth, 34.2%(25), 57.5%(42) and 8.2%(6) boys brushed teeth one, two and three times everyday respectively, where 21.6%(8), 56.8%(21) and 21.6%(8) girls brushed teeth one, two and three times everyday respectively. Conclusion: This study showed that malnutrition is widely prevalent among primary school children. Appropriate screening in school health program and proper nutrition education program may be recommended as early as possible.
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