Violence against women is a common and menacing phenomenon in Bangladesh-and domestic violence is the most common form which includes pushing, shaking or throwing of any objects, slapping, punching with fist or something harmful, kicking or dragging, trying of choke or burn, threatening with knife/gun or other weapon, twisting arm or pulling hair. In the study mean age of the respondents were 30.66 (±8.904) and 62.5% respondents lived in Rural areas where higher prevalence of abuse has been observed. The reasons mentioned through out the country for abuse were inconsequential and included failure to perform household work and care of children, economic problems, food crisis, refusal to bring dowry, disobeying husband/elder, unemployment status of husband, suspected case of infidelity etc. Factors influencing domestic violence were lack of education both in respondents or their spouse, lack of exposure to magazine or source of information, current married, large number of children ever born etc. The majority of abused women remained silent about their experience because of the high acceptance of violence within society, only a few shared the matter with neighbor, father/mother or other relatives. A very small proportion of women approached institutional sources for help. Interestingly, violence increased with membership of women in any non government organization or mother club or relating to any income generating process. It is furthermore disgraceful to find that the women with lower body mass index are the higher group of population who are the high-flying victims of violence. In rural or urban Bangladesh, women's physical, mental, social and economic circumstances may influence their risk of domestic violence in multifaceted and paradoxical ways. Therefore findings suggest discussing policy propositions to overcome current realities.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a growing public health concern among the Bangladeshi adult population. The objective of this cross-sectional descriptive type of study was to estimate the proportion of hypertension in an adult population of Keraniganj Upazila, Dhaka. The sample size was 199 selected purposively. Among them, 53.8% were female, 82.4% Muslims. Of the total respondents, 15.6% were hypertensive and highest proportion (29.0%) of hypertensive patients was found in the age group of ≥50-<60 years. The study revealed that people who took extra fatty food for 3-5 days per week, people who took extra salt in their food, respondents had a positive family history of hypertension or diabetes mellitus were more prone to develop hypertension. The study also revealed that smokers were in higher risk of development of hypertension than the non-smokers were and the rate of hypertension was 36.8% among those having higher waist circumference within 100 cm - 109 cm than those having lower waist circumference within 60 cm - 69 cm. Newly identified hypertensive cases were 7.0% of the study population. Results of this study have profound implications for hypertension prevention programs in the rural community, pointing out the need for increased focus in addressing hypertension along with its all background causes.Mediscope Vol. 5, No. 2: Jul 2018, Page 21-29

Countries of South East Asia Region have high prevalence rates of viral hepatitis. Hepatitis B is a major public health problem of the region, although it varies widely among the countries. In the region, every year approximately 14-16 million people are infected with Hepatitis B Pilaus (HBO. It is estimated that there are 78 million HBV carriers, which is almost 6% of the total population of the region (1.4 billion, 1995). A cross sectional descriptive study conducted by face to face interview on the basis of a structured questionnaire to identify the selected Dentists in Dhaka city from January to June 2010 among the dentists of City Dental College Hospital and Pioneer Dental College Hospital. Total 120 dentists were included purposively from two hospital in Dhaka city. The study was done to determine the proportion of Hepatitis B vaccination among dentists in a selected hospitals, the history of exposure of hepatitis B among the dentist, why a group of dentist could not take hepatitis B vaccine. Among 120 respondents, most of them received vaccine (65.0 %) whereas 35.0% did not take any. Among 79 respondents, 48.1% (38) finished taking the vaccines whereas 51.9% (41) did not finish taking the vaccines. Negligence was found to be the major cause for not taking the vaccine and very few of them think that the prevalence of hepatitis B is high among dentist. Further in depth study could help investigate to explain role of these factors. All health care personnel should be trained up so that they can save themselves and can also motivate their clients, relatives and general population. Time to time special training is orientation courses should be offered to the dentist for improvement of knowledge regarding hepatitis B infection.

This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among the rural people in some selected villages in Keraniganj upazila, Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 2015 to April 2016 to determine the knowledge and awareness about hepatitis B (HB) infection. The sample was collected using non-probability (purposive) method from the available people in the villages. The sample size was 200. The age most of the respondents were in the 26-35 age range; male respondents were higher than that of female and most of the respondents were married. The majority of respondents (60%) had primary and secondary education level, 42% were housewife, 40% had monthly family income range at 5000-10000 Taka, 45% had >5 persons in their family, 51% lived in pacca house, 52.5% drunk water from deep tube-well, and 82.5% did nothing for purification of water and 80% used sanitary latrine. The results of the study revealed that only 43.5% had knowledge on HB and 37.9% knew about HB from doctors. In case of mode of transmission, risk group and prevention of HB, 50.6% thought it is spread by water, 40.2% thought sex workers are more prone to develop HB and only 29% thought HB can be prevented by vaccination. This study indicates that there is a lack of awareness about HB, its route of transmission and modes of prevention among the rural people and appropriate measures are needed to increase correct awareness on HB for prevention purpose.Mediscope Vol. 4, No. 2: Jul 2017, Page 13-19

Background- Dengue fever is an important public health problem in recent years. Hepatic involvement in Dengue is ranging from elevated liver enzymes to fulminant hepatic failure. The present study was carried out with the aim to evaluate liver dysfunction in patients with dengue infections and the correlation between liver function tests and platelet count Methods- Hospital-based case-control study was conducted on 141 hospitalized with Dengue infection (NS 1 and IgM positive). Dengue Seropositive patients are selected and subjected to complete blood count and Liver function tests were analysed. Results-The participants were found to have elevated levels of SGOT, SGPT levels and lower levels of serum albumin and platelet count as compared to control on evaluation. A significant negative correlation was noted between SGOT/ SGPT levels and baseline platelet counts levels. The Pearson correlation between platelet count and SGOT showed r = -0.185 and p-value <0.01 which proves that when platelet count decreases, the SGOT levels increases. Similarly, the correlation between platelet count and SGPT showed r=-0.166 and <0.01 which proves that when platelet count decreases, the SGPT levels increases. Conclusion- Statistically significant correlation was observed between liver enzymes with platelet count. Furthermore, the severity of dengue infection predicted the severity of liver derangements. It is recommended that Patients with dengue infections be screened for hepatic dysfunction. As hepatic dysfunction in dengue is transient and reversible, early identification of the same would help to reduce life-threatening complications