Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 8 , Pages 568-572 , August 2009

Perceptions of rural people about childhood burns and their prevention: A basis for developing a childhood burn prevention programme in Bangladesh

  • S.R. Mashreky

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, House 226, Lake Road 15, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
    • Department of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, House 226, Lake Road 15, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh. Tel.: +880 28861258; fax: +880 28861499.
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  • A. Rahman

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, House 226, Lake Road 15, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
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  • S.M. Chowdhury

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, House 226, Lake Road 15, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
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  • L. Svanström

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
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  • M. Linnan

      Affiliations

    • Alliance for Safe Children, 4/1 Sukhumvit Soi 1, Klongtoey Nua, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
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  • S. Shafinaz

      Affiliations

    • UNICEF, 1 Minto Road, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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  • T.F. Khan

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Medical Education, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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  • F. Rahman

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, House 226, Lake Road 15, New DOHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
    • Department of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 11 December 2008 ,Revised 30 May 2009 ,Accepted 25 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.014

Public Health
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