Health care facility for married adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Health facility-based deliveries have continuously increased among adolescents in Bangladesh over the past two decades from 3% in 1993–1994 to 24.5% in 2011. Rates of population based and facility-based caesarean sections … Read More »
Decision Making Power in Contraceptive Methods Use and Childbearing
In Bangladesh, the decision making regarding the use of contraceptive methods and childbearing are mainly done by either adolescent married girls’ husbands or mothers-in-law. Thus because of this, Bangladesh has the … Read More »
Factors behind Maternal Health Care Seeking Behavior
All four levels of factors (individual, interpersonal and family, community and social, and organizational and health systems level) of Social-Ecological Model (SEM) have strong influence in the maternal health care-seeking behavior … Read More »
Utilization of maternal health services among adolescent women in Bangladesh: A scoping review of the literature
A systematic review looked at 12 articles published on adolescent maternal health and tried to identify the gaps in research. The studies were selected from a pool of 2627 articles published within 2003-2013. … Read More »
Interventions to encourage safe delivery in rural area.
The paper “Awareness of Pregnant Women Regarding Pregnancy and Safe Delivery in Selected Rural Area” by was published in Chattagram Maa-O-Shishu Hospital Medical College Journal (Vol 13, No 2) on 2014. … Read More »
Unplanned Pregnancy: Abortion verses Menstrual Regulation
In Bangladesh, one of the alarming health issues for girls and women is unsafe abortion which directly effects maternal mortality too. In order to come out of this health hazard, other … Read More »
Drivers of Early and Forced Marriage Epidemic resulting Sexual and Reproductive Health Hazards
Unfortunately, Bangladesh has the highest incidence of early marriage in the region (74%) of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (UNICEF 2014 data). Socio-cultural norms and patriarchy, social pressure and policing, poverty … Read More »
Mental disorders in Bangladesh: a systematic review
Abstract Background Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves … Read More »
Role of Gender on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Advantage turned into Disadvantage
South Asian countries don’t have the life advantage for girls and women that characterizes the health statistics of industrialized countries. In industrialized countries women are born with an advantage; their healthy … Read More »
Rethinking the Dimension of Male Sexuality and Masculinity
Our society is constructed with the fixed dimensions of manliness and manhood which influences male female relationships, men’s construction of sexual risk, safety and pleasure, and meanings of sex and sexual … Read More »