Technical Health Report on Bangladesh

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Technical Health Report on Bangladesh

• Vivian Sundeep Vijjeswarapu
• Wireless Communications
• Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Portland State University

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Sequence of Presentation

• Facts about Bangladesh
• Introduction
• Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs
• Telemedicine
• Sanitation
• Grameen Telecom Project
• Cost summaries
• Conclusion

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Facts about Bangladesh

• Total population 146,736,000
• GDP per capita (Intl , 2002) 1,734
• Life expectancy at birth m/f (years) 63.0/63.0
• Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years,
  2002) 55.3/53.3
• Child mortality m/f (per 1000) 68/70
• Adult mortality m/f (per 1000) 251/258
• Total health expenditure per capita (Intl ,
  2002) 54
• Total health expenditure as of GDP (2002) 3.1

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Introduction

• Communication is one of the basic physical
  infrastructures for economic development and
  plays a vital role in stimulating economic growth
  and improving the quality of life.
• Communication is a key to improving family health
  in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs

• Communication (BCC) makes use of an expanding
  mass media, new technologies, and new ideas in
  communication to influence health and social
  behavior change.

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The Major role of BCCP

• Creating awareness,
• Increasing knowledge
• Building approval
• Influencing behavior.

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BCCPs Areas of Expertise

• Mass Media
• Community-Based Programs
• Enter-educate Approach
• ARH Skill Development Approach
• Research and Evaluation

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Future Program of BCCPs

• BCCPs experience and expertise, and its long
  track record of carrying out innovative programs
  and achieving program goals have contributed to
  its reputation as the front ranking BCC
  organization in Bangladesh.

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Telemedicine

• The term Telemedicine is the delivery of
  medicine at a distance. Telemedicine may be as
  simple as two health professionals discussing a
  case over the telephone, or as complex as using
  satellite technology and video-conferencing
  equipment to conduct a real-time consultation
  between medical specialists in two different
  countries.

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Telemedicine

• About 140 million people living within 144,000
  sq. km of land, Bangladesh is one of the most
  densely populated countries in the world and
  about 80 of the total population of the country
  lives in rural areas. With inadequate number of
  physicians and urban centric mentality of
  available physicians, telemedicine is the crying
  demand of the country.

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Tele-health System

• Major Hospital of Diabetic Association of
  Bangladesh is linked up with a clinic of Diabetic
  Association of Faridpur to give better health
  service to rural people.
• Patients report can be sent via voice, images
  and video from telemedicine consultation center
  (TCC) at Faridpur DAB hospital.
• Medical advice is offered from a remote location
  known as telemedicine specialty center (TSC) in
  Dhaka- by specialized consultant doctors.

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Sanitation

• Effective communication of information that will
  change behavior
• Measures that strengthen local government
• Education from primary school stage
• Support for good management of building and
  engineering
• Reducing arsenic contamination in the water
  supply.

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Grameen Telecom Project

• In rural areas where isolation and poor
  infrastructural services are often the norm,
  telecommunications can play an extremely
  important role in enhancing rural social and
  economic development
• As every village is having telephone connections,
  its very easy for rural people to get connected
  to local hospitals and health centers.

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Cost summaries

• For programs such as mass media, community based
  programs, to develop strategies, and to train
  people in the initial investment should be around
  two million dollars.
• For this grameen telecom project I would like to
  invest two million dollars to implement this
  project in a particular district.

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Cost summaries

• For telemedicine we should invest around two
  million dollars.
• So we have to spend around one million dollars
  for sanitation project.
• The total cost of this entire project will be
  around four million dollars.

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Conclusion

• In this technical health report I proposed a cost
  effective and efficient method to implement
  various program for a district in Bangladesh
• If we could achieve success then we can connect
  rest of the country with this programs using
  communications and information technology.

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• Thank you