Bangladesh Research and Publications

Nutrition Surveillance Project Bulletins & Nutrition and Health Surveillance Reports

The Nutrition Surveillance Project Bulletins were developed to share findings from the quarterly nutrition and health surveillance conducted by Helen Keller International in Bangladesh since 1990, when the Nutrition Surveillance Project (NSP) was started in response to the need for monitoring the health impact of severe floods in the country. Almost 15 years since then, the NSP and the NSP Bulletins continue to provide program planners, policy makers and other relevant parties with timely, accurate and insightful information on issues affecting the nutrition and health of Bangladesh's most vulnerable populations. The NSP also reports on its findings through annual reports that also carry its Nutrition Surveillance and Health report series, documenting key findings on various nutrition and health issues. The NSP Bulletins are prepared and shared in English with relevant audiences within Bangladesh and internationally.

• View the Nutrition Surveillance Project Bulletins and Nutrition and Health Surveillance Reports

Key Reports from Bangladesh

• Children aged 12–59 months missed through the National Vitamin A Capsule Distribution Program in Bangladesh: findings of the Nutritional Surveillance Project, Akhter, N., Witten, C., Stallkamp, G., Anderson, V., de Pee, S., and Haselow, N., Field. Actions Sci. Rep., 1, 19-25, 2008.
• Homestead Food Production: The potential and opportunity to improve the food security and rural livelihood in Barisol division. Homestead Food Production Bulletin No. 3. Dkaka: Helen Keller International/Bangladesh, 2006.
• Bangladesh in Facts and Figures: 2005 Annual Report of the Nutritional Surveillance Project Dhaka: Helen Keller International/Bangladesh, 2006.
• Homestead Food Production Improves Household Food and Nutrition Security. Homestead Food Production Bulletin No. 2. Dhaka: Helen Keller International/ Bangladesh, November 2004.
• Monitoring of Activities in Village Nurseries and Household Gardens. A summary report of surveys 14-19. NGNESP. Helen Keller International/Bangladesh, 2003.
• HKI's homestead food production program sustainably improves livelihoods of households in rural Bangladesh. Homestead Food Production Bulletin No. 1. Dhaka: Helen Keller International/Bangladesh, September 2003.
• Iron deficiency anemia throughout the lifecycle in rural Bangladesh. National A Survey 1997-98. Helen Keller International, Dhaka. 1999.
• Vitamin A status throughout the lifecycle in rural Bangladesh. National Vitamin A Survey 1997-98. Helen Keller International, Dhaka.

Articles

• Sohana Shafique, Nasima Akhter, Gudrun Stallkamp, Saskia de Pee, Dora Panagides and Martin W Bloem. Trends of under- and overweight among rural and urban poor women indicate the double burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiology, University of Oxford Press. January, 2007. Original publication available on the IJE website.

Books:

• Health & Nutritional Surveillance for Development. (3MB PDF) Summary: The book is based on analyses of the Nutritional Surveillance Project (NSP). It contains: Preface; 4 chapters on Urbanization and the MDGs, Disasters in Bangladesh, Health and Nutrition Surveillance in Rural Bangladesh and in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Khulna and Chittagong; Appendix with information on data collection, sampling and indicators; Supplementary section with Bulletins published since 2002.