MDG Health Goal 2015: The Untold Stories of Reproductive Health

ISBN-13: 9783639763645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 148 str.

Tasmiha Tarafder; Parves Sultan

Opis

Reproductive health care services in Bangladesh are inadequate to say the least. Rural women have little or no access to health care services and remain reluctant to consult a doctor due to lack of encouragement from family members and their tendency to rely heavily on traditional healer's medicine. There is inadequate research in regard to the causes such as beliefs and attitudes towards reproductive health among Bangladeshi women. This study used two tiered qualitative research methodology employing in-depth one-to-one interviews and focus group discussions using semi-structure questions; to confirm and validate the data collected from three villages in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. During the fieldwork, 30 one-to-one interviews and three focus group discussions were conducted using snowball sampling technique. The findings reveal three critical themes regarding rural women's belief and attitudes toward reproductive health - a strong belief in traditional healers; a firm belief of following in-laws and seniors/elders, and superstitions regarding fertility, pregnancy and child-birth.

O autorze

Tasmiha Tarafder is an M.A in communication by research from University of Canberra. She has received various international awards for research publications.Dr Parves Sultan is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Central Queensland University, Australia. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.