...DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROFILE NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Centre of Excellence for Higher Education) JULY 2009 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT A GLANCE Chairman, Department of Public Health Dr. GU Ahsan, PhD Teaching Staff FULL TIME : Professor – 1 Associate Professor – 1 Assistant Professor –1 Senior Lecturer – 1 Lecturers – 1 Junior Lecturers – 2 PART-TIME : Professor – 4 Associate Professor – 1 Assistant Professor –3 Senior Lecturer – 2 Lecturers – 2 Non-Teaching and Support Staff Program Officer Office Secretary Teaching: Graduate Assistants (TAs/ GAs) Office Support Service Staff (OSS) Masters of Public Health Program: Started in 2006 Students are mostly doctors and health planners (e.g., High and mid label Officials from DG Health, DG Family Planning and others), health managers, public health workers and researchers, etc. Number students enrolled till date: 550 Number of students graduated: 50 Introduction and Background of the Department of Public Health This is our intense gratification to introduce North South University (NSU), Dhaka, Bangladesh as “The Center of Excellence for Higher Education” which is committed to provide high quality education and training in public health and in various emerging and reemerging health issues. In addition NSU is providing education in Business, Computer Science, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Microbiology, Economics, English and others which is highly recognized at home and abroad. Moreover, North...
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...Course: Health & Society Course ID: HEA101 Course Instructor: Kazi Md. Abul Kalam Azad Contact Information: Room 10010, 10th floor, School of Public Health, IUB. E-mail: akazad71@gmail.com Course Duration: January –April, 2011 on Mondays and Wednesdays Course content: The course will provide a brief overview of human anatomy and functioning of the body. The course will also look into elements of the society that improve or negatively impacts people’s health and well-being. A contextual focus is important to understand individual and community health and health disparities within a multicultural, global context. Different understandings of health, well-being and illness, how people cope and live with disease, and how health and illness is shaped by contextual factors will be seen. Learning outcomes: At the end of the course the students will know the fundamentals of how the human body functions and factors associated with illness and disease. They will know how health of people around the globe has been shaped over time with changes in sanitation, food consumption, and education, access to diverse kind of health facilities e.t.c. Students learn to engage in critical reflection of health related issues in any particular populations and take look into it with a diversified perspective in order to plan, implement and evaluate population health initiatives. Teaching: The teaching will be given through lectures, class room discussions/seminars of health related...
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...Review Article HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Knowledge and Conception Md. Reyad-ul- Ferdous1, A. H. M. Mahmudur Rahman2 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: In the mid-1980s Bangladesh initiated an early retort to the HIV outbreak. People are unprotected to Sexually Transmitted Diseases-STDs and most importantly the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-HIV/AIDS in this Bangladesh because of lack of acquaintance about reproductive health issues when youngsters are more in danger than adults and among the youngsters, girls are more at risk. Information plays a vital role to have...
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...Necessary in relation to CSR Practices 22 Standard of Listed companies in Bangladesh with Regard to Social Audit 23 * Part Three: Objectives, Scope & Methodology of the Study Objectives 26 Scope 27 Methodology 28 * Part Four: Findings of the Study Sample Enterprises 30 Areas of Social Responsibilities Discharged 33 Reporting Practices 36 Evaluation 37 * Part Five: Conclusion Summary of the Findings 39 Future Directions 40 References 42 Part one: Introduction A Brief Description of CSR Corporate social responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, responsible business, sustainable responsible business (SRB), or corporate social performance, is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Ideally, CSR policy would function as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business would monitor and ensure its support to law, ethical standards, and international norms. Consequently, business would embrace responsibility for the impact of its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Furthermore, CSR-focused businesses would proactively promote the public interest by encouraging community...
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...corruption. They take bribe from common people for giving any service. Our country, Bangladesh, has topped the list of corrupt countries five times. There is none to raise voice against the galloping corruption! Even the organizations that collects data about corruption – are themselves corrupted in a very secret way! However there are many reasons behind this corruption. The greed for power, pelf, wealth and money is the root cause of corruption. Avarice, dishonesty, nepotism and favoritism are also responsible for corruption. Corruption Statement of Problem: This paper analysis’s the corruption in Bangladesh. I will discuss the current situation of corruption and its effect. We know that corruption is the main obstruction for development in Bangladesh. This topic is very much related to our social life for that reasons I will try to fulfill the purpose of this research. Objectives of Research: It is very important to identify the objectives of any research .I will describe all the objectives of this research on corruption in Bangladesh. The objectives of this study are following- (i)To explain the concept of the corruption. (ii)To explain the present situation of corruption in Bangladesh. (iii)To find out the effect of corruption in Bangladesh. (iv)To focus on the ways of combating corruption in Bangladesh. Research Methodology: Methodology is very important for any research. Without methodology it is difficult to complete a...
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...Introduction: The basic needs of human are –food, clothing, shelter, education, and health. Education is essential for human and one of the basic needs of human being. Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Teachers in educational institutions direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects, including reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. This process is sometimes called schooling when referring to the education of teaching only a certain subject, usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is also education in fields for those who want specific vocational skills, such as those required to be a pilot. In addition there is an array of education possible at the informal level, such as, in museums and libraries, with the Internet and in life experience. Systems of formal education: Education is a concept, referring to the process in which students can learn something: Instruction refers to the facilitating of learning toward identified objectives, delivered either by an instructor or other forms. Teaching refers to the actions of a real live instructor designed to impart learning to the student. Learning refers to learning with a view toward preparing learners...
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...also provide background information on the environmental constraints, needs and opportunities in Bangladesh. Over the given period of this strategy document, ADB will be working with the Government of Bangladesh (Gob) for the improvement of the environment sector, wherein this report may be a basis for actions and/or intervention. This work focuses on the aspects of understanding the important features of the Bangladesh environment that need to be essentially understood. The purpose of the report is to present the findings of a review done on the environment sector. The review considered the ongoing and past interventions, legal and policy regimes and finally outlined the outstanding issues facing the sector. Objectives of the study It is well established that the process of land use change leads to the alteration of existing environmental conditions of any area. The specific objectives of the study were: 1. To identify the existing land use pattern of the selected area; 2. To explore the prime causes of land use change and its Effects on the environment of the study area, and 3. To give some suggestions based on the study findings. gulations for new industries, and strengthening the regulatory system for agro-chemical pollution control. Alternatively, clean-up strategy can be mobilized through private organizations in a public-private partnership approach. Solid waste management. With the high density of...
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...RESEARCH PAPER ON DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH IN BANGLADESH Introduction: Bangladesh is a developing country with a population of 152,518,015 (approx.) Since our war of independence we have face numerous amount of health and nutrition issues in our country. Although Bangladesh has seen impressive progress in health and nutrition in the last few decades. Despite still low social indicators and continuing prevalence of poverty (40% of the population lives below the poverty line), the health sector in Bangladesh has shown impressive progress. We improved in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, increasing number of doctors, increasing number of hospitals and medical colleges. ICDDR’B etc. The government of Bangladesh has shown policy continuity and commitment to improving health conditions, placing particular emphasis on improving the health conditions of its citizens and targeting the poor, women and children. Where as many of the problems still remains unsolved. The ministry of health and family planning is responsible for the health service of the country should take necessary steps to solve those problems. Objective: The main objective of this whole research is to evaluate the health condition of Bangladesh. From 1971 to 2013 health condition of Bangladesh has radically changed. We are here to present that the number of health centers, hospitals, medicals colleges and other institutions related to health development of our country. We have also seen numerous amount of development...
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...European Commission EVALUATION OF RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS IN BANGLADESH Technical Paper # 4 National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme The National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP) was initiated to enhance national capacity to implement the National Food Policy (NFP) and the ensuing Plan of Action. The NFPCSP is implemented jointly by the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) under the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (MoFDM), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with financial assistance from the European Commission (EC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The programme aims at strengthening the capacity of FPMU and the policy wings and planning units in partner ministries to effectively implement and monitor the Plan of Action of the NFP in order to improve food availability, enhance physical, social and economic access to food, and ensure safe and nutritious food. It also aims at expanding and deepening the civil society capacity to conduct high quality research on food security, and to establish an effective platform for dialogue between government policy officials and civil society researchers to better inform the elaboration and implementation of the NFP as well as its Plan of Action. Copies of this publication can be downloaded from www.nfpcsp.org or requested from: _________________________________________________________________________________...
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...Tamnun E Mursalin "Digital Bangladesh" is currently the most commonly used words in politics, media, among the intellectuals and the civil societies. Since our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her party's election manifesto pledged to develop a digital Bangladesh by 2021, it has given a great hope to the citizens of Bangladesh. It turned out to be an opportunity for our prime minister to be in the United States during the time of election, and experiencing the Obama election campaign. Her learning has helped Awami League wining the election in Bangladesh in 2008 with Obama-like campaign strategy-the call for 'change', which has been responded widely by the Bangladeshi citizens. However, the focus here is Digital Bangladesh, widely accepted by Bangladeshi people from all walks of life. Not too many people understood the concept of digital Bangladesh but they believed it, as something related to information technology. It has been widely accepted by a good number of young voters, believing that the concept of Digital Bangladesh will solve most of our national crisis involving corruption, unemployment, illiteracy, poverty and price-hike. Even though without knowing Bangladesh has already gone through a bit of experience on digitization through few national level of ICT projects, such as, Chittagong Customs Automation System, selection process of teletalk mobile user through internet, project initiated by the pervious government on machine-readable digital passport system and finally...
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...Bangladesh on its way to become a middle-income country by 2021 Essay Contents: 1. Introduction : 2. Classification of Countries and What is Meant by MIC: 3. Significance of Becoming a MIC, for Bangladesh : 4. Predictions on Bangladesh Becoming a MIC( International and National Sources ) : 5. Experience of Countries Moving from Low income to Middle Income Status : 6. Recommendations for Bangladesh to Become a MIC : 7. Becoming a MIC( Three Possible Scenarios) : 8. Conclusion : Essay Materials: sHoVoN Still a way to go for a middle-income Bangladesh Author: Fahmida Khatun, CPD Bangladesh’s recent graduation to the World Bank’s lower-middle-income category from a low-income category was only a matter of time. The country experienced steady growth in the 2000s and boosted its per capita income. Its from a mere...
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...Economic Sciences Series Employee Compensation Practices in Industrial Enterprises of Bangladesh: A Public-Private Sector Comparison Mir Mohammed Nurul Absar*, Zahed Husain Sikder**, Balasundaram Nimalathasan***, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Bhuiyan**** * East Delta University, 1267/A Goshaildanga, Agrabad, Chittagong, Bangladesh e-mail: mmnabsar@yahoo.com ** Department of Management Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh e-mail: zahidsikder@aiub.edu *** Department of Commerce, University of Jaffna, Thirunelveli, Jaffna, Sri Lanka e-mail: bnimalathasan@yahoo.com **** Department of Statistics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh e-mail: bhuiyan_mz@yahoo.com Abstract Compensation is one the most important functions of human resource management (HRM). The present study aimed at exploring differences between the public and private sector industrial enterprises of Bangladesh with respect to overall status of compensation practices. Data collected from twenty-six public and thirty-four private industrial enterprises shows that the overall status of compensation practices of the private sector industrial enterprises is significantly better than that of the public sector industrial enterprises in Bangladesh. Some implications are also offered for overall improvement of the compensation practices of the public and private sector industrial enterprises of Bangladesh. Key words: compensation, public sector, private sector, industrial enterprises JEL Classification: M12 Introduction ...
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...However Fazle Abed's family moved out of Calcutta and he matriculated from Pabna Zilla School and went on to complete his higher secondary education from Dhaka College. Then He left home to attend Glasgow University, where, and in an effort to break away from tradition and do something radically different - he studied Naval Architecture. Later he joined the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in London. The 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh had a profound effect on him, then in his thirties, a professional accountant who was holding a senior corporate executive position at Shell Oil. The war dramatically changed the direction of his life; he left his job and moved to London to devote himself to Bangladesh's War of Independence. There, he helped to initiate a campaign called "Help Bangladesh" to organize funds to raise awareness about the war in Bangladesh. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chairperson of the world's largest NGO, he is to be knighted by the Queen of England for his services to alleviating poverty in Bangladesh and abroad. Abed is the first Bangladeshi to receive the honour since 1947, though he is the second person in his family to be knighted. In 1913 his great uncle, Justice Nawab Sir Syed Shamsul Huda also received a knighthood. Sir Fazle has received numerous national and international awards for his...
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...CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN BANGLADESH: PRACTICE AND PERPETUITY Promoting Safety, Enforcing Rights Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh: Practice and Perpetuity Supported by Published by Promoting Safety, Enforcing Rights Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh: Practice and Perpetuity Researcher Rumana Sobhan Porag Safety and Rights Society Published by Safety and Rights Society 14/23 Babor Road (4th floor) Block B, Mohamadput Dhaka 1207 Tel: +88 02 - 9119903-4 Mobile: +88- 01193 200207, +88- 01191 797414 www.safetyandrights.org info@safetyandrights.org Date of Publication January, 2014 Copyright Safety & Rights Society Printed by Chowdhury Printers and Supply 48/A/ Badda Nagar, B.D.R. Gate No. 1 Pilkhana, Dhaka-1205 ISBN : 978-984-33-6453-1 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We wish to express our appreciation to the following individuals and organisations, without whose support this research would not be possible to accomplish. Our appreciation goes to the business leaders who provided their valuable time in sharing their views and CSR practices, and for the in-depth discussions on the current situation and ways and means of improving CSR practice in Bangladesh. We were encouraged by the enthusiasm shown by the private sector and their willingness to meet with us and share their experience, often at very short notice. Without the support from these leaders, our study would not have been possible. We would...
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...Getting and Staying Active in Later Life On the occasion of International Day of Older Persons, ASM ATIQUR RAHMAN discusses the plight and prospects of ageing in 21st century Bangladesh. Old age is neither a disease nor an individual problem; rather, it has become a worldwide challenge that must be addressed globally. "Later life" is unavoidable, inevitable, universal and excessively troublesome. No one can stop the process of ageing. The quality of life and the rate of ageing both vary considerably depending on a number of factors such as education, occupation, purchasing capacity, lifestyle, food habit, residential location, belief and culture, etc. Surprisingly, ageing takes place within the context of family members, kin, neighbours, friends, work associates and the state. Lifelong preparations, making intergenerational linkages, using appropriate technology, developing right-based societal relationships, upholding religious values at the personal level, political commitment and governmental undertaking at the macro-level can help ensure a healthy ageing and active later life. Policy responses to ageing until now have tended to focus only on the provision of medical care and income security for older persons, which remain important but have been inadequate compared to the rate of ageing occurring now and projected to intensify in the coming decades. Population ageing is a by-product of scientific development in human societies bound to remain a dominant social...
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