Male Involvement in Reproductive Health in Bangladesh a Multilevel Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783639102253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

Mohammad Amirul Islam

Opis

A growing consensus has emerged among policy planners to involve males in the reproductive health (RH) programmes. One reason for this is mens dominating role in the family decision process. This is globally acknowledged, after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, 1994. This book evaluated the status of male involvement in RH in the world context and in the Bangladeshi context. In-depth analyses of male involvement in family planning (FP), one of the key components of RH, have been done using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) couple dataset. A conceptual frame work showing the relationship among different components of mens involvement in FP has been proposed. Consistency in reporting of contraception by both the spouses has been addressed. Multilevel models have been fitted considering the hierarchical nature of DHS data. This book raised some limitations of DHS variables and suggested appropriate modeling strategies.

O autorze

Dr. Mohammad Amirul Islam is an Associate Professor at Bangladesh
Agricultural University. He did his PhD in Demography and Social
Statistics at University of Southampton where he also worked as
Research Fellow. Dr. Islam has published in peer reviewed
international journals and edited books and presented at
different international conferences.