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Trends and future of maternal and child health in Bangladesh

BACKGROUND: Maternal and child health is one of the most important issues in a developing country like Bangladesh. This study evaluates the trends in maternal and child health indicators of Bangladesh. METHODS: The secondary data used in this study was extracted from the World Bank Dataset. The sele...

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Autores principales: Rajia, Sultana, Sabiruzzaman, Md., Islam, Md. Kamrul, Hossain, Md. Golam, Lestrel, Pete E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30875380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211875
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author Rajia, Sultana
Sabiruzzaman, Md.
Islam, Md. Kamrul
Hossain, Md. Golam
Lestrel, Pete E.
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Sabiruzzaman, Md.
Islam, Md. Kamrul
Hossain, Md. Golam
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description BACKGROUND: Maternal and child health is one of the most important issues in a developing country like Bangladesh. This study evaluates the trends in maternal and child health indicators of Bangladesh. METHODS: The secondary data used in this study was extracted from the World Bank Dataset. The selected indicators were maternal mortality ratio (MMR), under-five children mortality and neonatal mortality rate, and prevalence of stunting and wasting of under-five children. Trend analysis technique and ARIMA forecasting models were used in this study to find currents trend and predict the future of selected indicators. RESULTS: This study revealed clear evidence that neonatal, under-five child and maternal mortality in Bangladesh had been gradually decreasing during the last two and half decades. The decreasing rate of these indicators suggests that it should be possible to achieve the national target of sustainable development goals (SDGs) of Bangladesh by 2021. While, it was observed that the prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among under-five children was still high, these indicators have been slowly decreasing over time. The decreasing rate of these indicators displayed that without guided measures, the Bangladesh government would not be able to achieve the target goal of child malnutrition by 2021 under SDG-2.2. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that the government, as well as non-government health organizations (NGOs), and other policy makers should provide programs that are effective so that the national target goals can be achieved by the year 2030. Consequently, our findings should assist in the achievement of the national goals in Bangladesh regarding these health issues.
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spelling pubmed-64200032019-04-02 Trends and future of maternal and child health in Bangladesh Rajia, Sultana Sabiruzzaman, Md. Islam, Md. Kamrul Hossain, Md. Golam Lestrel, Pete E. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Maternal and child health is one of the most important issues in a developing country like Bangladesh. This study evaluates the trends in maternal and child health indicators of Bangladesh. METHODS: The secondary data used in this study was extracted from the World Bank Dataset. The selected indicators were maternal mortality ratio (MMR), under-five children mortality and neonatal mortality rate, and prevalence of stunting and wasting of under-five children. Trend analysis technique and ARIMA forecasting models were used in this study to find currents trend and predict the future of selected indicators. RESULTS: This study revealed clear evidence that neonatal, under-five child and maternal mortality in Bangladesh had been gradually decreasing during the last two and half decades. The decreasing rate of these indicators suggests that it should be possible to achieve the national target of sustainable development goals (SDGs) of Bangladesh by 2021. While, it was observed that the prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among under-five children was still high, these indicators have been slowly decreasing over time. The decreasing rate of these indicators displayed that without guided measures, the Bangladesh government would not be able to achieve the target goal of child malnutrition by 2021 under SDG-2.2. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that the government, as well as non-government health organizations (NGOs), and other policy makers should provide programs that are effective so that the national target goals can be achieved by the year 2030. Consequently, our findings should assist in the achievement of the national goals in Bangladesh regarding these health issues. Public Library of Science 2019-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6420003/ /pubmed/30875380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211875 Text en © 2019 Rajia et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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