85% of women in rural Bangladesh want their husbands to attend the birth, according to a household survey of 1367 women. Only 45% of the women said that this had …
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A study in a rural area of Bangladesh makes three recommendations for engaging men in order to improve maternal and newborn health: don’t just seek to inform fathers, but tackle …
A “social autopsy” exercise in Bangladesh identified family decisions as a key factor in 28 cases of maternal death during pregnancy and childbirth: Family ignorance of symptoms. Family making wrong …
A study in rural Bangladesh explored why so many mothers still give birth at home rather than in a health centre. 66 interviews were carried out in 2012 and 2013 …