WOMEN HEALTH AND DISEASE PATTERN IN THE RURAL AREAS OF BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY ON HAIMCHAR UPAZILA UNDER CHANDPUR DISTRICT
The present research has undertaken to understand the women health scenario in a remote rural char land of the country and their health awareness with hygienic practices. Most of the women … Read More »
Situation Analysis of Obstetric Fistula in Bangladesh
Every year a large number of women in our country are experiencing life threatening, high risk, chronic or other serious health problems due to pregnancy and childbirth. Obstetric fistula is one … Read More »
Mental Health Stigma as Social Attribution: Implications for Research Methods and Attitude Change
The course and outcomes of mental illness are hampered by stigma and discrimination. Research on controllability attributions has mapped the relationships between signaling events, mediating stigma, emotional reactions, and discriminating behavior. … Read More »
Understanding the Impact of Stigma on People with Mental Illness
Many people with serious mental illness are challenged doubly. On one hand, they struggle with the symptoms and disabilities that result from the disease. On the other, they are challenged by … Read More »
Maternal and child health in Bangladesh: a critical look at the policy and the sustainable development goals
Based on secondary analysis, this paper places a critical discussion looking back in history of maternal health achievements by Bangladesh, future adaptability and potentials forwarding to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) … Read More »
Disaster management in Bangladesh; What women need
Access to information, before, during and after disaster is vital for communities in safeguarding lives and livelihoods. Many communities are equipped with this information through formal Union Disaster Management Committee structures, … Read More »
Gender and Diversity in Emergency Shelter Programming
This information brief was prepared by the Bangladesh Shelter Cluster to support agencies delivering emergency shelter to: • Better understand the importance of including gender and diversity into emergency shelter programming … Read More »
Are climate challenges reinforcing child and forced marriage and dowry as adaptation strategies in the context of Bangladesh?
This paper outlines the link between child and forced marriage, dowry and climate changes in Bangladesh. Drawing on a three year research study on the gendered impacts of climate change, we … Read More »
Menstrual hygiene management among Bangladeshi adolescent schoolgirls and risk factors affecting school absence: results from a cross-sectional survey
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) at school is constrained by poor access to water and sanitation, lack of privacy and limited education about menstrual hygiene1 as well as social stigma and cultural … Read More »
Living with Infertility: Experiences Among Urban Slum Populations in Bangladesh
This paper explores the perceived causes of infertility, treatment-seeking for infertility and the consequences of childlessness, particularly for women, among a predominantly Muslim population in urban slums of Dhaka in Bangladesh. … Read More »