Bangladesh Urban Health Survey (UHS) 2013

The 2013 Bangladesh Urban Health Survey (UHS) is a representative household survey of slums and non-slums of City Corporations and other urban areas that was implemented through a collaborative effort of the National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Measure Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and icddr,b. Associates for Community and Population Research, a Bangladeshi private research agency, conducted the field survey in the City Corporation areas, municipalities and large towns with population over 45,000. The 2013 UHS is a follow-up survey conducted after seven years from the first UHS conducted in 2006. Primarily the survey was designed to examine the changes in the health and service utilization profile of the urban population with explicit attention to examine differences between slum and non-slum groups. The information collected in the 2013 UHS will be instrumental in determining directions for the urban health program in Bangladesh. Data concerning important urban health issues like migration, fertility and family planning, maternal and newborn health, childhood mortality, child health, feeding practices, and nutritional status etc. are crucial in designing policies and programs. Hopefully, intra-urban differentials in health service utilization between two surveys will be helpful to demonstrate an increased commitment to improving the lives of urban people in Bangladesh.

2013年孟加拉国城市健康调查（Urban Health Survey，以下简称UHS）是一项针对市政当局及其他城区的贫民窟与非贫民窟区域开展的代表性住户调查。该调查由人口研究与培训国家研究所（National Institute of Population Research and Training，以下简称NIPORT）、Measure Evaluation、美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校以及icddr,b联合实施。孟加拉国私营研究机构社区与人口研究联合协会（Associates for Community and Population Research）负责在人口规模超4.5万的市政当局辖区、自治市及大型城镇开展实地调查工作。
2013年UHS是2006年首次开展UHS后的七年追踪调查。本次调查的核心设计目标为剖析城市人口健康状况与医疗服务利用概况的变化，并重点关注贫民窟与非贫民窟群体间的差异。2013年UHS收集的相关信息将为孟加拉国城市健康项目的方向制定提供关键依据。调查涵盖了移民、生育与计划生育、母婴健康、儿童死亡率、儿童健康、喂养行为以及营养状况等重要城市健康议题的数据，此类数据对于政策与项目的制定具有关键支撑作用。期待通过两次调查中城市内部医疗服务利用的差异分析，能够彰显孟加拉国进一步致力于改善城市居民生活的坚定承诺。