Volume 21
Number 2 July 2013Reproductive Health Care Utilization of Married Women in Rural Community of Bangladesh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47648/jmsr.2013.v2102.04
Zaman F1 , Islam Md. Z2 , Hossain S3 , Yasmin R4
Abstract
It is a community based cross sectional descriptive type of study conducted to find out the health care utilization of married women in a rural community. It was found that majority of the women (63.73%) were married within 17 years of age. Majority of married women (69.8%) were having their first child at an earlier age (16-20 years). About 6019% women were not using any contraceptive methods. Most of the illiterate women (71.21%) did not use any contraceptive methods. At HSC level it was about 60%. At any level among the users most of them use OCR The rate of tubectomy was very low only 1.63% to 3.03%. Only 37.99% ofwomen were utilizing antenatal service and among them who were receiving the service, only 2.79% were taking adequate visits (11-14). Maximum percentage (32.96%) is having 1-4 visits. Most of the married women were either illiterate (33.33%) or having primary education (33.33%), 25.98% had secondary education. Most of the delivery was conducted by untrained birth attended (55.3%). Among illiterate women, most (81.53%) of them receive, no antenatal visit. On the other hand at HSC level of education most (80%) of them had ante natal visits. The highest number of visits (11 to14) was made by women of secondary education (1.06%).Emphasis on adequate counseling, health education and motivation can improve the health status of married rural women of Bangladesh.
Keywords:
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine
- Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine
- Professor, Department of Community Medicine
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine