Abstract:
Diabetes afflicts a large number of people of all social conditions
throughout the world. So, it is a major health problem of all the countries
of the world including Bangladesh. Inspite of increasing advances in the
past several years in almost every field of diabetes research and patient
care, the personal and public health problem of diabetes, already of vast
proportion, continuously increasing day by day. The scale of the problem
that diabetes poses to world health is still widely under recognized. Recent
estimates predict that if current trends continue the number of persons with
diabetes will be more than double, from 140 million to 300 million in the
next 25 years. The greater proportion of the increase is likely to occur in
the developing countries, which are the communities who can least afford
it [Source: http://www.who.int/ncd/dia/index.htm]. Bangladesh also possess the same picture. Surveys conducted by DAB ( 1995) reveals that
the number of diabetic patients in Bangladesh is 1 to 1.5 percent of the
total population. The rate is higher in the urban and industrial areas,
perhaps the cause is to adequate physical work of rural areas.
Description:
This Thesis is submitted to The Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil.)
