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Background: Tuberculosis is one of the most dangerous chronic infectious diseases in Bangladesh. It is the major public health problem in this country. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a commonly responsible organism of tuberculosis. It is an airborne disease that spreads through the coughing of an infected person.
The Bangladesh health policy document was published in 2011 and adheres to the following : Health is defined as "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Every citizen has the basic right to adequate health care.
Institute of Public Health was established in 1952 as the Combined Public Health Laboratories and renamed to Institute of Public Health in 1953. The institute has nearly one thousand researchers and academics underneath it. It offers post-graduate degrees and is located on 47.8-acre site in Mohakhali, Dhaka. [3]
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) (Bengali: রোগতত্ত্ব, রোগ নিয়ন্ত্রণ ও গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউট) is a Bangladesh government research institute, under the Ministry of Health, responsible for researching epidemiological and communicable disease in Bangladesh as well as disease control.
Bangladesh also has a high tuberculosis (TB) burden, with 102 new cases per 100,000 people in 2005, according to the World Health Organization.HIV infects about 0.1 percent of adult TB patients in Bangladesh and HIV-TB co-infections complicate treatment and care for both diseases.
J. Journal for Healthcare Quality; Journal of American College Health; Journal of Community Health; Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research; Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Factors that contribute to the hunger over various states of Bangladesh is lack of resources and education. [7] BMC Public Health defines hunger as "Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways".
In 2007, the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences starting offering courses in public health under the University of Dhaka. It received further grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, University of Oslo, and World Diabetes Foundation based in Netherlands. The institute applied to the University Grants Commission to become a higher education ...