Sex and Gender-based analysis in Health Research
Much work has been done to promote sex and gender-based analyses in health research and to think critically about the influence of sex and gender on health behaviors and outcomes. However, … Read More »
Sex Bias in the Family Allocation of Food and Health Care in Rural Bangladesh
This study examines the behavioral antecedents to the higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh. A framework is presented … Read More »
The Effect of Power in Sexual Relationships on Sexual and Reproductive Health
This article reviews what has been learned to date about the role of gender-based power in sexual relationships in determining sexual and reproductive health outcomes. A framework for assessing the relationship … Read More »
Absent and Problematic Men: Male Reproductive Roles
Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are: to … Read More »
HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma: Health Care Providers’ side of the story
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are stigmatized and looked at negatively by people at large. Stigma, discrimination, and prejudice extend its reach to people associated with HIV-positive people such as health … Read More »
Stopping childbearing: Not a woman’s decision
Much has been talked on the empowerment of women and increasing their decision making power in the use of contraception and age at first pregnancy. However, the decision of stopping childbearing … Read More »
Being supportive to your child can help them be more adaptive to situations
This study aimed to investigate whether cognitive emotion regulation in children varies with parenting style, family type and gender. Toward this end, cognitive emotion regulation and perceived parenting style of 206 … Read More »
Higher risk of maternal mortality and morbidity in case of early marriage
This paper explores the decline in child marriage and changes in its effect on reproductive outcomes of Bangladeshi women, using the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data. Chi-square tests, negative … Read More »
Pregnancy in advanced maternal age
This is a retrospective study done in DMCH from 1st August 2007 to 31st August 2008. For study purpose 98 patients were selected randomly whose gravidity 6th and more. To see … Read More »
Early marriage and early childbirth associated with higher risk of cervical cancer
This study was conducted to find out the descriptive epidemiological and pathological characteristics among the incidental cases of cervical cancer patients attending National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital (NICRH), Dhaka, … Read More »