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Original scientific paper

Is Bangladesh Going through an Epidemiological and Nutritional Transition?

Nicholas Mascie-Taylor ; Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK


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Abstract

Bangladesh is going through an epidemiological transition with large reductions in mortality due to acute, infectious, and parasitic diseases and increases in non-communicable, degenerative, and chronic diseases over the last 20 years. There is also evidence of an adult nutritional transition with increases in pre-obesity and obesity particularly in urban areas. However a high percentage of the population of Bangladesh remain undernourished and economically poor and ultra-poor development programmes indicate that improving their nutritional status might not be achievable as a bi-product of the development programme. Bangladesh like many developing countries has many burdens of under and over-nutrition, high levels of infectious diseases as well as growing levels of non-communicable diseases.

Keywords

Bangladesh; epidemiological transition; nutrition transition

Hrčak ID:

94855

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/94855

Publication date:

27.12.2012.

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