Norms, practices, and gendered vulnerabilities in the lower Teesta basin, Bangladesh

Ferdous, Jannatul; Mallick, Dwijen

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2018.10.003

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“…This could stem from gender norms in Bangladesh, which dictate that women should remain at home and should be accompanied by men in public spaces. 16 As village doctors are located closer to home, it may be easier and more acceptable for women to go to the ‘bazaar’ unaccompanied. In this setting, successful interventions to improve emergency care seeking may need to target key decision makers, such as traditional healers, male heads of household or family elders.…”

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Applying the Three Delays Model to understand emergency care seeking and delivery in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study

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ObjectivesThe Three Delays Model has been commonly used to understand and prevent maternal mortality but has not been systematically applied to emergency medical conditions more generally. The objective of this study was to identify delays in emergency medical care seeking and delivery in rural Bangladesh and factors contributing to these delays by using the Three Delays Model as a framework.DesignA qualitative approach was used. Data were collected through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews using semistructured guides. Two analysts jointly developed a codebook iteratively and conducted a thematic analysis to triangulate results.SettingSix unions in Raiganj subdistrict of Bangladesh.ParticipantsEight focus group discussions with community members (n=59) and eight in-depth interviews with healthcare providers.ResultsDelays in the decision to seek care and timely receipt of care on reaching a health facility were most prominent. The main factors influencing care-seeking decisions included ability to recognise symptoms and decision-making power. Staff and resource shortages and lack of training contributed to delays in receiving care. Delay in reaching care was not perceived as a salient barrier. Both community members and healthcare providers expressed interest in receiving training to improve management of emergency conditions.ConclusionsThe Three Delays Model is a practical framework that can be useful for understanding barriers to emergency care and developing more tailored interventions. In rural Bangladesh, training community members and healthcare providers to recognise symptoms and manage acute conditions can reduce delays in care seeking and receiving adequate care at health facilities.

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“…The findings of the present study suggest that the perception of social norms is flexible in females, which might contribute to their coping with a changing environment. Previous studies on gendered vulnerabilities to climate change revealed that females are most vulnerable among vulnerable groups to extreme climatic situations due to their underrepresentation in the distribution of social resources (Ferdous and Mallick, 2018; Goodrich et al, 2019). Similar situations occur during the course of mobility, especially in the context of traditional Chinese culture, such as the traditional gendered norms of women staying at home and inequity in obtaining opportunities for education (Fan, 2003).…”

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Residential Mobility Decreases Neural Responses to Social Norm Violation

Luo

Kong

et al. 2019

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Social norms are essential, but they vary across cultures and societies. With the internationalization of human society, population mobility has greatly increased, especially in developing countries, which can have an impact on people’s psychological states and behaviors and result in sociocultural change. The current research used three studies to examine the hypothesis that residential mobility plays a crucial role in the perception of social norm violations. Study 1 used an association test and found that residential mobility was correlated with the perception of both weak and strong social norm violations in females. Study 2 combined electroencephalography and found a negative differential N400 between weak social norm violations and appropriate behavior between residentially mobile and stable mindsets, suggesting that residential mobility modulates individuals’ detection of social norm-violating behavior. Study 3 revealed that residential mobility does not have a similar effect on semantic violations, which indicates that the effect of residential mobility does not occur in non-social norm violations. Our findings provide insight into how and why individuals’ detection of social norm-violating behaviors varies according to the dynamic development of society. As residential mobility continues to increase worldwide, especially in developing countries, more attention should be paid to the concomitant impact during the course of sociocultural change to build a better strategy for cultural specific social governance.

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“…Understanding peoples' drought risk perception can assist to devise effective drought risk reduction policies and strategies under changing climate conditions, particularly in water deficit areas in the Teesta River Basin in Bangladesh. Previous studies in Bangladesh have been concentrated on the drought effects on agriculture (Habiba et al 2012;Islam et al 2014), food production (Ericksen et al 1993), economy (World Bank Bangladesh 2000, and society (Ferdous and Mallick 2019). Besides, Habiba et al (2012) assessed people's perception and adaptation plans to cope with drought in northwest Bangladesh.…”

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Perceived and Actual Risks of Drought : Household and Expert Views From Lower Teesta River Basin of Northern Bangladesh

Salam

Ghose

Shill

et al. 2021

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Disaster risk perception, as well as risk appraisal, play a pivotal role in making the disaster risk reduction policy. This study examines the actual vs perceived drought risks by constructing risk indices at the household and expert levels using survey data from the lower Teesta River Basin in northern Bangladesh. Survey data were collected from 450 farmers based on the structural questionnaire. A composite drought risk index was developed to understand households’ perceived and actual risks in the designated areas. The results show that the actual and perceived risk values differ significantly among the three designated sites of Ganai, Ismail, and Par Sekh Sundar. The risk levels also differ significantly across the household’s gender, income, occupation, and educational attainment. People with poor socio-economic status are more prone to drought risk than others. Results also reveal that the mean level of perceived risk agrees well with the actual risk; females perceive comparatively higher risk than males. Expert views on drought risk are similar to the individual household level perceived risk. The outcomes of this study would help the policy-makers and disaster managers to understand the concrete risk scenarios of the study areas and to take timely and appropriate disaster risk reduction actions for ensuring a drought-resistant society.

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Norms, practices, and gendered vulnerabilities in the lower Teesta basin, Bangladesh

Cited by 65 publications

References 11 publications

Applying the Three Delays Model to understand emergency care seeking and delivery in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study

Applying the Three Delays Model to understand emergency care seeking and delivery in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative study

Residential Mobility Decreases Neural Responses to Social Norm Violation

Perceived and Actual Risks of Drought : Household and Expert Views From Lower Teesta River Basin of Northern Bangladesh

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