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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Causes for hospitalizations at upazila health complexes in Bangladesh
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Volume 28, No. 4, Year 2010
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Morbidity and mortality data are important for planning and implementing healthcare strategies of a country. To understand the major causes for hospitalizations in rural Bangladesh, demographic and clinical data were collected from the hospital-records of five government-run rural health facilities (upazila health complexes) situated at different geographical regions of the country from January 1997 to December 2001. During this period, 75,598 hospital admissions in total were recorded, of which 54% were for male, and 46% were for female. Of all the admissions, diarrhoeal disease was the leading cause for hospitalization (25.1%), followed by injuries (17.7%), respiratory tract diseases (12.6%), diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (10.5%), obstetric and gynaecological causes (8.5%), and febrile illnesses (6.7%). A considerable proportion (8.3%) of the hospitalized patients remained undiagnosed. Despite the limitations of hospital-based data, this paper gives a reasonable insight of the important causes for hospitalizations in upazila health complexes that may guide the policy-makers in strengthening and prioritizing the healthcare needs at the upazila level in Bangladesh. © International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ahmed, Sirajuddin
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Siddique, Abul Kasem M.
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Iqbal, Anwarul
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Nurur Rahman, F. K.M.
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Islam, Md Noor
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
King Fahd General Hospital
Sobhan, Md Arif
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Liberia
Brac International Liberia
Islam, Md Rafiqul
Bangladesh, Dhaka
Icddrb, Public Health Sciences Division
Australia, Callaghan
School of Medicine and Public Health
Sack, Richard Bradley
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statistics
Citations: 19
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.3329/jhpn.v28i4.6047
ISSN:
16060997
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Maternal And Child Health
Violence And Injury
Participants Gender
Male
Female