May 2012

Community participation in population-based non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus control program: A paradigm

  Effective control of chronic diseases in developing countries remains a major challenge in developing countries of the world where low levels of literacy, conflicting notions of disease etiology and low belief in self-efficacy operate jointly to render populations at risk of diseases like non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) hopeless. Even as declared by the WHO, the public health challenges of...

Author(s): O. C. Abanobi

May 2012

Indigenous or global knowledge for development: Experiences from two NGOS in Bangladesh

  There is a crucial debate whether indigenous knowledge (IK) or global knowledge (GK) is more important for a country’s social development. This is widening over time and it is now recognised that IK is much more essential for sustainable development. This paper looks this issue with two communities- blacksmiths and goldsmiths of the two NGOs in Bangladesh. This paper finds that IK in Bangladesh is very...

Author(s): M. Rezaul Islam