Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh

This article deals with the need of father friendly SRHR services to ensure maternal health in rural community. Using qualitative research methods this research tries to evaluate whether consultation service on SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) by the Health Service providers increase...

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Main Authors: Rahman, Tahia, Khan, Ishrat
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/31346/1/Tahia_Rahman.pdf
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Khan, Ishrat
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description This article deals with the need of father friendly SRHR services to ensure maternal health in rural community. Using qualitative research methods this research tries to evaluate whether consultation service on SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) by the Health Service providers increases men’s involvement in maternal health care in northern Bangladesh. The first part deals with the background and contexts of the paper shedding light on the traditional practices of fatherhood in relation to maternal health care in rural Bangladesh. It shows that fathers traditionally denies to take part in maternal care issues even though there is a huge network of Maternal Care established by the government of Bangladesh. The second part of this paper describes the process of sensitizing the health service providers designed by CMMS and Promundu US so that they set up father friendly SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) consultation services to encourage and engage fathers in maternal care. The third part deals with the specific cases of fathers who were motivated by the health service providers and took part in maternal health care. Based on these cases in the conclusion the paper argues that father friendly consultation services can increase their involvement in maternal health services that ultimate results in improved maternal health.
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spelling usm.eprints-313462016-12-29T01:14:25Z http://eprints.usm.my/31346/ Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh Rahman, Tahia Khan, Ishrat B1-5802 Philosophy (General) This article deals with the need of father friendly SRHR services to ensure maternal health in rural community. Using qualitative research methods this research tries to evaluate whether consultation service on SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) by the Health Service providers increases men’s involvement in maternal health care in northern Bangladesh. The first part deals with the background and contexts of the paper shedding light on the traditional practices of fatherhood in relation to maternal health care in rural Bangladesh. It shows that fathers traditionally denies to take part in maternal care issues even though there is a huge network of Maternal Care established by the government of Bangladesh. The second part of this paper describes the process of sensitizing the health service providers designed by CMMS and Promundu US so that they set up father friendly SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) consultation services to encourage and engage fathers in maternal care. The third part deals with the specific cases of fathers who were motivated by the health service providers and took part in maternal health care. Based on these cases in the conclusion the paper argues that father friendly consultation services can increase their involvement in maternal health services that ultimate results in improved maternal health. 2016-11-16 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/31346/1/Tahia_Rahman.pdf Rahman, Tahia and Khan, Ishrat (2016) Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh. In: 3rd KANITA POSTGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER STUDIES, 16 – 17 November 2016, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
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Rahman, Tahia
Khan, Ishrat
Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title_full Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title_fullStr Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title_short Fathers Involvement In Maternal Health: Need Of Father’s Friendly SRHR Consultation Services In Rural Bangladesh
title_sort fathers involvement in maternal health need of father s friendly srhr consultation services in rural bangladesh
topic B1-5802 Philosophy (General)
url http://eprints.usm.my/31346/1/Tahia_Rahman.pdf
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