A M R Chowdhury

Biographic Data

ID207966
NAMEA M R Chowdhury
GIVEN NAMESA M R
FAMILY NAMEChowdhury
SIGNATURECHOWDHURY A M R
AFFILIATIONSDeputy Executive Director and Director of Research, Research and Evaluation Division, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) Bangladesh.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX4

  • Gender differences in delays in diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

    Open AccessF Karim, Md Ashraful Islam et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2008

    Health Policy & Planning volume 22 number 5 September 2007 pp. 329–334 Tables 1 and 2 in this article contained errors, the corrected tables are displayed below. The Publisher apologizes for this error. Delays in help seeking among 1000 new smear-positive cases (500 women and 500 men) in different stages of clinical process, by sex (mean and median days) Notes: Wilcoxon test for mean and Kruskal-Wallis test for median. Confidence interval (CI) fo…

  • Stigma, Gender, and their Impact on Patients with Tuberculosis in Rural Bangladesh

    Fazlul Karim, A M R Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2007Cited by: 4References: 6

    In addition to marginalization by poverty and ethnicity, gender is likely to contribute to vulnerability to TB-related stigma affecting women. Stigma often contributes to psychosocial problems and emotional suffering, and it may hinder help seeking and treatment adherence. TB-related stigma and its gender-specific features have not been carefully studied in Bangladesh, and such research is needed to reduce adverse effects of stigma. This study as…

  • Reaching reproductive health knowledge to rural adolescents in Bangladesh

    Open AccessSabina Faiz Rashid, A M R Chowdhury et al.ARTICLESocial Change2001References: 4

    BRAC, a local non-governmental organisation is providing reproductive health knowledge for rural adolescents belonging to poor families. There productive curriculum covers a wide range of issue from puberty reproduction and menstruation, marriage and pregnancy, STDs and AIDS, family planning and birth control, are recruited and trained. Classes are taught to both male and female adolescents. An important aspect of implementation is the involvemen…

  • Human rights and religious backlash

    Mohammad Rafi, A M R Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2000Cited by: 4

    As part of a human rights education campaign, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee fixed 700,000 posters throughout Bangladesh. This met with opposition from the religious organizations. This paper investigates the nature and cause of the backlash and sets out strategies for how development organizations can achieve their objectives in the face of opposition. The opposition was found to be in response to interpretations of the posters based…

  • Patterns of vaccination acceptance

    Open AccessPieter Streefland, A M R Chowdhury et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 40References: 17

  • The Status of ORT in Bangladesh

    Open AccessA M R Chowdhury, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning1997Cited by: 2

    During 1980-1990 BRAC, a Bangladeshi non-governmental organization, taught over 12 million mothers how to prepare oral rehydration therapy (ORT) at home with lobon (common salt) and gur (unrefined brown sugar). This was followed by a strong promotion and distribution of prepackaged ORS by various agencies including the government. In 1993 we assessed knowledge of ORT preparation, its local availability and its use for the management of diarrhoea.…

  • Assessing basic competencies

    Open AccessA M R Chowdhury, Rajiv Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Education1994Cited by: 6References: 7