Year: 2012
Type: article
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.
Source: PubMed
Author: Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W105807332