Authors: Ilias Mahmud, Sadia Chowdhury, Bulbul Ashraf Siddiqi, Sally Theobald, Hermen Ormel, Salauddin Biswas, Yamin Tauseef Jahangir, Malabika Sarker and Sabina Faiz Rashid
A range of formal and informal close-to-community (CTC) health service providers operate in an increasingly urbanized Bangladesh. Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh’s pluralistic health system, yet the reasons for their popularity and their interactions with formal providers and the community are poorly understood. This paper aims to understand the factors shaping poor urban and rural women’s choice of service provider for their sexual and reproductive health (SRH)-related problems and the interrelationships between these providers and communities. Building this evidence base is important, as the number and range of CTC providers continue to expand in both urban slums and rural communities in Bangladesh. This has implications for policy and future programme interventions addressing the poor women’s SRH needs.
Link: Exploring the context in which different close-to-community sexual and reproductive health service providers operate in Banglade
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Community Involvement, Data Collection, Policy, Reproductive Health/Family Planning, Scale-up
Resource Type: Journal articles, Research
Year: 2015
Region: Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Publisher May Restrict Access: No