Bangladesh's Family Planning Success Story: A Gender Perspective

Schuler,; Sm, Hashemi; Ah, Jenkins

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“…In the case of Bangladesh, however, the long-term value of the outreach approach is questionable. Whereas Hossain and Phillips (1996;Phillips, Hossain, and Arends-Kuenning 1996) contend that the outreach program sustained use of contraceptives by maintaining women's contact with and support from outreach workers, Schuler, Hashemi, and Jenkins (1995) suggest that the program might reinforce women's isolation and powerlessness by accommodating existing gender norms. Although contraceptive use did increase in Bangladesh, recent research suggests that the need for the CBD program has diminished over time.…”

Section: Chws Increase Access To and Use Of Health Services In Rural mentioning

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Task Sharing in Family Planning

Janowitz

Stanback

Boyer

2012

Studies in Family Planning

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Section: Chws Increase Access To and Use Of Health Services In Rural mentioning

confidence: 99%

Task Sharing in Family Planning

Janowitz

Stanback

Boyer

2012

Studies in Family Planning

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“…Indeed, studies indicate that poor women's participation in large-scale credit programs can lead to greater-than-average increases in contraceptive use as well as to declines in fertility. 2,17 Place of region has a net effect on birth control methods. Compared with women of the Barisal division, the rate of contraceptive use was found to be 1.38, 1.47, and 2.02 times higher among those of Dhaka, Khulna, and Rajshahi divisions, respectively, and 25% and 66% lower among women of Chittagong and Sylhet divisions.…”

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Contraceptive Use: Socioeconomic Correlates and Method Choices in Rural Bangladesh

Kamal

Islam

2010

Asia Pac J Public Health

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This article investigates socioeconomic correlates of contraceptive use and method choice in rural Bangladesh. To meet the objectives of the study, the authors used nationally representative 2004 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data. The findings indicate that contraceptive prevalence rate among currently married nonpregnant women was 61%. The prevalence of modern methods was 49%. Oral pill and periodic abstinence were the most preferred modern and traditional methods, respectively. Both bivariate and multivariate analyses reveal that women's age, number of living children, having a male child, women's education, religion, NGO membership, and place of region are important determinants of contraceptive use and method choices. Findings suggest that discussion between husband and wife on family planning has the most single significant effect on both current contraceptive use (odds ratio [OR] = 4.45; confidence interval [CI] = 3.95-5.01) and modern method preference (OR = 1.57; CI = 1.28-1.93). The doorstep delivery service of modern methods should be strengthened to further increase effective family planning that is required to reduce the total fertility rate in Bangladesh.

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“…Even if a woman is able to seek out contraception for herself, she may have to use it secretly. Concern about such problems was raised in the recent transition from doorstep-delivery to clinic-based provision of contraception in rural Bangladesh, given the potential impact of this shift on contraceptive use (Hossain and Phillips 1996;Routh et al 2001;Mercer et al 2005) and women's lives more broadly (Schuler et al 1995;Bates et al 2003;Phillips and Hossain 2003). (We conducted further analyses to test the hypothesis that change in the percentage pregnant between time periods could be associated with the temporal shift in the provision of contraceptive methods from doorstep delivery to static clinic sites, but we were not able to establish an association with the small sample sizes of the discordant groups in these shorter time periods.)…”

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The effect of husbands’ and wives’ fertility preferences on the likelihood of a subsequent pregnancy, Bangladesh 1998–2003

Gipson

Hindin

2009

Population Studies

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Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from 3,052 rural Bangladeshi couples, we investigated the influence of husbands' and wives' fertility preferences on the likelihood of a subsequent pregnancy in the period 1998-2003. Although reproductive behaviour is relatively consistent with fertility preferences, 17 per cent of couples who reported they did not want more children in 1998 had a subsequent pregnancy by 2003. Wives in this setting appear to be more pronatalist than those in other less developed countries. Moreover, wives' rather than husbands' fertility preferences appear to have dominated over the 5-year study period. As expected, the incidence of pregnancy decreased over the study period for most couples, but increased among couples in which only the husband wanted more children. This finding suggests that wives who disagree with their husbands about having more children are either less likely to prevent pregnancy through consistent use of contraception or acquiesce to their husbands' desire for more children.

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Bangladesh's Family Planning Success Story: A Gender Perspective

Cited by 56 publications

References 9 publications

Task Sharing in Family Planning

Task Sharing in Family Planning

Contraceptive Use: Socioeconomic Correlates and Method Choices in Rural Bangladesh

The effect of husbands’ and wives’ fertility preferences on the likelihood of a subsequent pregnancy, Bangladesh 1998–2003

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