Compliance to playpen usages to enhance parental supervision of under-five children in rural community of Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In Bangladesh, injury is one of the leading causes of death and morbidity in children. All children under 5 years of age are at high risk for drowning though the risks are highest when children first learn to walk and crawl while they do not understand the danger of water. The Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) has been implementing two drowning prevention interventions, providing playpens and community day care centres (anchal), or both in three rural sub-districts of Bangladesh under Saving of Lives from Drowning (SoLiD) project in Bangladesh. In CIPRB intervention areas, wooden playpens were distributed among the children nine months to three years at househol

SUBMITTER: Bhuiyan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9084520 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature