Traditional birth attendants' advice toward breast-feeding, immunization and oral rehydration among mothers in rural Bangladesh.

Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) are regarded as essential child health care providers in Bangladesh. A community-based cross-sectional study was completed using questionnaires and interviews to compare trained and untrained TBAs' advice on (1) breast-feeding, (2) immunizations and (3) oral rehydration therapy as an extended part of their maternity care training. Twenty-eight trained TBAs (TTBAs) and 27 corresponding untrained TBAs (UTBAs) in the Dhaka district were interviewed to investigate the effect of their advice on the three outcome variables of maternal health care.

Impacts of training of village health volunteers in reduction of morbidity from acute respiratory infections in childhood in southern Thailand.

In 1990, the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand started a five-year education program on management of cases with acute respiratory infection (ARI). The objective of this-study was to test whether such a program could reduce the average number of sick days of the target children. 30 villages in the study district were randomly allocated into 15 study and 15 control villages.

A study on disabled children in a rural community in southern Thailand.

This study reports the findings of a survey undertaken in 1990/1991 in a poor and predominantly Malay-Muslim community in southern Thailand. The aims were to estimate the prevalence and type of childhood disability and to examine some of the ways in which this disability can be prevented and treated. The result showed that the overall prevalence rate of child disability was 1.

A survey of neonatal tetanus and perinatal mortality in southern Muslim communities in Thailand.

The objective was to obtain the incidence rate of neonatal tetanus, perinatal mortality rate, and the coverage of health care utilization in the rural Muslim in the lower part of southern Thailand. In a retrospective field study, the rural populations of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces were studied by cluster sampling technique. The still birth rate and early neonatal mortality rate were 15.