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Bangladesh
Medical Technologies Sector Review
Definition and scale of sector
- Polymer/metal components,
- Electronics/electromechanical sub assemblies,
- Medical instrumentation,
- Pharmaceutical production, wholesaling
Why the sector was chosen in the West Midlands
- High rate of growth but from a low case.
- Full role played by the medical market place on regional industry is understated given the role played by industries that supply multiple markets e.g. polymers.
- Higher Education based investments demonstrate a potential for spin off activity. Opportunities for diversification. Major training region in Medical Schools and CE for the NHS.
ADB's Policy for the Health Sector - February 2007
The Asia and Pacific regions is home to 690 million people living on incomes of less than $1 per day. They account for more than two thirds of worl's poor. Most live in areas where health services are inadaquate or nonexistent. Poverty leads to poor nutriotion and inadequate acces to heath care, wich cause health to deteriorate.
In turn, poor health prevents the poor from being productive members of society. This is a vicious cycle of impoverishment. Health is also a key inoput to economic development: goos health enhances the productivity of the workforce and increases the attractiveness of the economy to domestic and foreign investors.
Source: Asian Development Bank
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TB Policy in Bangladesh - A Civil Society Perspective - December 2006
On the first World TB Day of the new millennium, ministerial representatives of the 20 countries carrying 80 percent of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden adopted the Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB. By adopting the Declaration, these governments pledged to take bold new steps in addressing the TB epidemic in their countries and affirmed their commitment to “implement, monitor and evaluate” their national TB programs according to the TB control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
For the TB Monitoring Project, Public Health Watch civil society partners in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Thailand have prepared assessments of national TB policies based on a standardized questionnaire, which facilitates structured review of governmental compliance with key elements of the Amsterdam Declaration and the WHO TB control strategy. Public Health Watch researchers come from a range of backgrounds, including academia, development, journalism, and independent activism, and from both large and small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Source: Open Society Institute, Public Health Program
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