| Titre : | Postpartum health in a Dhaka slum. (1999) |
| Auteurs : | A. UZMA ; D. ATKINSON ; R. THACKRAH ; P. UNDERWOOD ; Community Health Research & Training Unit. Department of General Practice. University of Western Australia. A Block. Fremantle Hospital. South Terrace. Fremantle WA. AUS |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 48, n° 3, 1999) |
| Pagination : | 313-320 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Bengla Desh ; Asie ; Homme ; Femme ; Postpartum ; Morbidité ; Milieu urbain ; Bidonville ; Malnutrition ; Mère ; Pauvreté ; Attitude ; Maladie nutrition |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST QG8R0x59. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This study examines the health, nutritional status, and health care seeking behaviour of a community based sample of 122 postpartum women from an urban slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It describes a physically impoverished environment in which malnutrition is serious, and non-trivial morbid episodes as a consequence of childbirth are very common. Malnutrition was found to be widespread : about one-quarter of the study mothers were short in stature, measuring 145 cm or less in height : over two-thirds of the women weighed<45 kg ; and a similar proportion had a BMI of<20, Based on mid-upper arm circumference, an overwhelming majority (96%) suffered from some degree of malnutrition. During the first 6 weeks postpartum over three-quarters of the women rcported a non-trivial illness. The frequency of reported illnesses was significantly associatcd with both increasing age and parity. Despite severe poverty, most of the women reporting illnesses (71%) received some form of health care from a wide range of western and traditional health care providers, with Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) and unqualified western care providers being the most frequently utilised. This study highlights the plight of these women in a precarious environment and shows how their health is compromised by cultural and political constraints. (...) |
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