Relationship Among Village Doctor Training Level, Proximity to a Main Road, and Availability to Administer Intravenous Fluids for Diarrheal Illness
Treatment of life-threatening diarrheal illness in rural areas of Bangladesh relies on the training and accessibility of informal health care providers such as village doctors. We found that village doctors located closer to main roads were more likely to be government trained but just as likely to administer intravenous fluids.
Authors
- Firdausi Qadri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-304X)
- Daniel T. Leung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8401-0801)
- Ishtiakul Islam Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9415-8113)
- Md Taufiqul Islam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1584-484X)
- Sharia M. Ahmed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4060-5712)
- Mohammad Ashraful Amin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9142-9176)
- Melissa H. Watt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-3536)
- Eric J. Nelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2649-2624)
- Olivia R. Hanson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9331-0756)
- Debashish Biswas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2174-3922)
- Md Golam Firoj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1634-5729)
- Zahid Hasan Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8526-4165)
- Ashraful Islam Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2169-4163)
Institutions
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- University of Utah (US)
- University of Florida (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf235
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Utah
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development