http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1083 2026-04-05T23:15:35Z 2026-04-05T23:15:35Z Mondal, Md. Sanaul Haque http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2718 2018-09-25T09:55:23Z 2015-03-22T00:00:00Z

Land Cover Change, Population Dynamics and Climate Change: Spatial and Chronological Transformation of Sundarbans and its Adjacent Areas, Bangladesh Mondal, Md. Sanaul Haque S ndarbans is the largest mangrove forest of the world. It covers an area of around 10,000 km of which 62% lies in the districts of Bagerhat, Satkhira and Khulna of Bangladesh and the rest 38% shared by India. The Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh constitute around 50% of the country's protected area and around 2 million people of the Sundarbans impact Zone (SIZ) are directly and indirectly depends on Sundarbans and its resources. The forest is under threats because of population pressure, human encroachment, shrimp farming crab farming, frontier agriculture, pollution, natural disasters e.g. cyclones, coastal erison storms surges, floods, hydrological changes, sea level rise, and above all lack of awareness etc. This paper examines the population dynamics of Sundarbans Impact Zone from 1974 to 2011; climate change impact on Sundarbans; and land cover changes of .Sundarbans from 1973 to 2010. A strong relationship has found between population pressers and a decrease of vegetated land cover from the Sundarbans Reserved Forest. The population size of SIZ increased by 20 percent (between 1981 and 1991) where as the number of trees per hectare in SRF has decreased by 25% (between 1983 and 1996). During 1973 to 2010, water bodies, barren land and vegetated land decreased by 7%, 50% and 16% respectively; whereas the grassland increased by 228% during the same period.this indicates that the density of evergreen vegetation and its canopy closure has decreased. Climate change put another set of impact on Sundarbans through increasing salinity regime of SRF and decreasing economically valuable species from the Sundarbans. Thus the vicious cycle of population growth and climate change impact on Sundarbans is playing an important role to the depletion of Sundarbans resources. The recommendations of this paper includes in-depth understanding of population dynamics of SIZ locality, develop GIS and remote sensing based real time monitoring system, comprehensive protection implicit political commitment, environmental friendly development flow augmentation from Farakka barrage, creating alternative livelihoods for Sundarbans dependent communities, and above all, ensuring transparency accountability and awareness of community people and forest managers to conserve the Sundarbans from human interventions. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in population, Reproductive Health, Gender and Development of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015-03-22T00:00:00Z Abdullah, Muzadded Sani http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1357 2019-03-13T10:04:13Z 2015-04-22T00:00:00Z

Antenatal and Postnatal Health Care Seeking Behavior of Indigenous Women: A Study of the Patro Community in Sylhet Abdullah, Muzadded Sani The condition of maternal health of the indigenous people is worse poorer than non-indigenous people across the world, which is also true in the Bangladesh context as well as at local level. However, little research has been conducted among indigenous people in Bangladesh. Regarding maternal health the present study was conducted among the Patro indigenous people of Bangladesh to understand their maternal health care access and the factors associated with it. It was carried out in six villages of Sylhet district where most of the Patro people reside. The research, employed a mixed method approach that combined both qualitative and quantitative methods. A total of 108 married women who had at least one child less than three years of age or women who had at least one delivery experience were interviewed by using purposive and snowball sampling system. This data was then presented using uni-variate, bi-variate and multivariate analysis.In addition to this a comparative analysis of utilization ANC, PNC and delivery care at national, regional level and Patro community were also assessed. The study revealed that, the socio economic condition of the Patro community is quite poor and the access to maternal health care services is likewise very inadequate. Both micro and macro level factors are responsible for their low access to health care services. The educational attainment of Patro women and their husband is lower than the regional and national level as well. Unlike national level most of the Patro man are day laborers. Patro community is economically very poor. They live in inaccessible remote and isolated area surrounded by hills and tea gardens. There were no maternal health service centers near where they live except for BPI center. Thus, the government should take collaborative initiation with GO and NGOs to establish maternal health centers to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity among Patro women. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in population, Reproductive Health, Gender and Development of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2015-04-22T00:00:00Z Barua, Rahul Kanti http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1101 2019-03-13T10:05:51Z 2015-02-14T00:00:00Z

Detection of Digit Preference and Age Misreporting by Using Demographic Techniques Barua, Rahul Kanti Age misreporting and digit preferencel is very common error all over the world. In developing countries this error is more critical than the developed countries (Talib et aI.,2003). The age misreporting and digit preference can be found frequently in population census surveyor other epidemiological and clinical studies. There are many studies in the area of age and sex data. However, this research is unique in the sense as no previous study attempted to evaluate simultaneously the age and sex data of medical outpatients, particularly of Chittagong Medical College (CMC) in Bangladesh and that of the population of Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab. The rationale for using two data sets of the population in this research is to compare the quality of age collected by two sources- one with a long history of proper data record keeping and verification and the other has no such history. There is no proper record of keeping and verification system of age and sex in outpatients of CMC Hospital. However, in Matlab HDSS there is a systematic data management system from its establishment in 1966. Since then the Matlab HDSS has maintained the registration of births, deaths, and migrations, in addition to carrying out periodical censuses. A group of trained staff were involved in data collection and periodic vi sit of all households in the area. This data is then maintained continuously in a database system . It is expected that age and sex data collected by Matlab HDSS would be of better quality than that of the data collected by CMC Hospital as the former collects these data more rigorously and meticulously than the later. This hypothesis is also supported by data. We know that demographic data are usually classified by age and sex, and errors in age reporting are more frequent than in sex reporting. Different demographic techniques were used to evaluate both the data sets. These techniques include Whipple's Index (WI) that indicates age data which show systematic heaping for particular ages such as those ending with ' 0' and ' 5', Myer's Blended index (MI) that measures the extend of digit preference for all the digits, and Age-sex Accuracy Index that determines the accuracy of age reporting. I This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in population, Reproductive Health, Gender and Development of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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