The Lancet  
Dec 21, 2013  Volume 382  Number 9910  p2039 – 2114  e48 – 53
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Bangladesh’s health revolution
Fazle Hasan Abed
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My country, Bangladesh, has seen a health revolution in my lifetime. Maternal mortality has decreased by 75% since 1980,1 infant mortality has more than halved since 1990, and life expectancy has risen to 68·3 years, higher now than in neighbouring India and Pakistan.2 Such rapid changes in health have almost no historical precedent, save perhaps for Japan’s breakneck modernisation following the 19th-century Meiji Restoration.3 …

Health care for poor people in the urban slums of Bangladesh
Kaosar Afsana, Syed Shabab Wahid
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Bangladesh has witnessed substantial success with respect to health, as described in the Lancet Bangladesh Series and elsewhere.1 The daunting challenge now is the health of poor people living in urban areas. Massive and rapid urbanisation is occurring, with rural populations moving to cities in huge numbers, driven by poverty, climate change, and the promise of better economic opportunities.2,3 In the past 40 years the proportion of the population living in urban settings in Bangladesh has increased from 5% to 28%, with roughly 45 million people now living in urban areas.

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Bangladesh: Innovation for Universal Health Coverage
Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh
Richard A Cash, Shantana R Halder, Mushtuq Husain, Md Sirajul Islam, Fuad H Mallick, Maria A May, Mahmudur Rahman, M Aminur Rahman
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Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action
Alayne M Adams, Tanvir Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Timothy G Evans, Tanvir Huda, Laura Reichenbach, for The Lancet Bangladesh Team
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