Ecology and Health: Exploring the Status of Child Health Care in a Haor Village of Bangladesh

Md. Mokhlesur Rahman and Shariful Alam Bhuiyan
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Md. Mokhlesur Rahman: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet 3114, Bangladesh
Shariful Alam Bhuiyan: MSS in Anthropology from SUST and Deputy Manager-MEAL, Save the Children, Bangladesh

International Journal of Healthcare and Medical Sciences, 2020, vol. 6, issue 5, 93-99

Abstract: This paper will explore child health care and treatment seeking behavior of villagers and presents factors that discourage them from using public health facilities. The perspective of human health is not only stay behind in the contact between the disease and the human body and the extermination of the demon by providing few medicines rather it is a complex web where multiple factors are affecting human to live a sound life. The environment has a diverse effect on human life: some indulge humans with it extravaganza while some impose serious theaters but one thing in common, every environment shares basic problems of acquiring and allocating space, food, energy and resources for health. Haor people have endless problems to meet, starting from food to basic human rights. Maintaining a healthy life does end up with some formality of going to some popular and folk treatment though going to professionals is rare. Government and non-Governmental organizations have a variety of scope to improve the situation by providing health infrastructure, awareness building measures, eradicating superstition and including health education in the school curriculum.

Keywords: Child; Health care; Popular; Folk; Professional; Bio-medicine. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.32861/ijhms.65.93.99

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