Factors influencing maternal mortality in Cumilla city corporation, Bangladesh

Abstract

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> The main purpose of this study was to analyze the factors influencing maternal mortality in Cumilla city corporation, Bangladesh.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> This study was conducted with a questionnaire and interview survey to investigate the current objective.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> The major findings of this study were 11.33% respondents had no educations, 19.3% of respondents had no knowledge about ANC services, 22% of respondents had no knowledge about PNC services. It was about 49.33% of respondents first heard about the birth control method from their friends and relative as service providers and field workers were less active in those places. However, 28% of respondents were between 16 and 25 years which represents teenage or early marriage highly influences maternal mortality in this study area. Lack of postnatal and antenatal care were strong determinants for increasing maternal mortality.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The current findings have a significant impact on society and demographic economics because the study of influencing factors of maternal mortality in this study area was not conducted before. The current study will help to create opportunities for future research.</p>

Pandemic, Job loss, Food consumption, Child health: Impact of (COVID-19) on the livelihood of marginal income people in Bangladesh

“…Recent statistics of the international labor organization state that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 50% of the global workforce may lose their livelihood, as 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy are at immediate risk of losing their income source. In these circumstances, these families face food crises and health risks, especially child health (Akseer et al, 2020;Osendarp et al, 2021;Nguyen et al, 2021;(Rahman et al, 2020a;Rahman et al, 2020b;Majumder et al, 2021). The income and employment loss have not affected all segments of the country at an equal ratio.…”