Bangladesh's health revolution

摘要

My country, Bangladesh, has seen a health revolution in my lifetime. Maternal mortality has decreased by 75% since 1980,infant mortality has more than halved since 1990, and life expectancy has risen to 68.3 years, higher nowthan in neighbouring India and Pakistan. Such rapid changes in health have almost no historical precedent, save perhaps for Japan's breakneck modernisation following the 19th-century Meiji Restoration.