Major Health Problems In Bangladesh

1. Major diseases of people in Bangladesh

2.  Major health problem
 Solution
 Public health aspect about the problem and
solution

3.  Public health defined as the science of
protecting the safety and improving the
health of communities through education
policy making and research for disease and
injury prevention.

4.  In Bangladesh health problems are very
familiar to people. There are some major
health problem in Bangladesh which create a
lot of disease.

5. 1. Population problem
2. Communicable Diseases problem
3. Non communicable Diseases problem
4. Nutritional problem
5. Drug addiction/dependence problem
among the high risk group
6. Road/ traffic accident and other
accidents e.g. drowning
7. Medical care problem
8. Environmental Sanitation problem

6. Ours is a small country of
1,47,570 square kilometers with a
big population of 16 cores

7. Over population create
communicable diseases like
diarrheal ,TB, Typhoid, HIV/AIDS,
Dengue, Fever, Malaria etc.

8.  “Malnutrition is a broad term commonly used as
an alternative to under nutrition but technically
it also refers to over nutrition. People are
malnourished if their diet does not provide
adequate calories and protein for growth and
maintenance or they are unable to fully utilize
the food they eat due to illness (under
nutrition). They are also malnourished if they
consume too many calories (over nutrition).”
-UNISEF
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9.  Effect/Impact of Malnutrition
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10.  Drug addiction is a complex brain disease. It
is characterized by habitual, a times
uncontrollable, drug desire ,seeking and use
that even in the face of extremely negative
consequences . In Bangladesh it is a growing
national concern .There are million of drug
addicted people in Bangladesh and they are
from all level of the society.

12.  Due to lack of proper
Planning and lack of
commitment among
the Medical
personnel, Primary
Health Care Services
could not be Provided
to the desired extent.
 Poorly managed
Health Care System.
 Lack of safe
drinking water in
many areas of the
country.
 Primitive methods
of excreta disposal
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14. Different diseases that causes sickness
and illness

15.  Unhealthy condition of body or mind .The
state of being sick…basically sickness is a
specific types of sickness. Examples are
below…
 Morning sickness
 Sleeping sickness
 Motion sickness
 Attitude sickness
 Sweating sickness

16.  A disease or period of sickness affecting the
body or mind.
 Allergies
 Asthma
 Alcohol abuse and alcoholism
 Asperger syndrome
 Anxiety disorders

18.  Diseases refers to the medical establishments
perspective
 Sickness refers to society’s perspective
 Illness is the way the patient perspective
their condition
 Sickness is the medium issue.
 Illness can be a long time or short time.

19. Presentation By, Irshad Arefin