Reproductive health among lower economic groups women at rajshahi, Bangladesh: A case study

Reproductive health among women of lower economic groups in Bangladesh has significance importance to achieve the targets of SDG goals for the development in Bangladesh. In this study, an attempt has been made is to find out the reproductive health status among women of lower economic groups in Rajshahi, Bangladeshi. This study also identifies the determinants of contraceptive use, awareness, attitudes and knowledge on several reproductive health indicators such as HIV/AIDS among women. It also investigates the determinants of physical violence and determinants of taking drugs among women of lower economic groups in Rajshahi. For this purpose, data were collected from 200 ever married women who worked in students’ mess in Rajshahi City Corporation area through simple random sampling. The results shows that, most of the respondent’s (64.5%) are illiterate and some respondent are literate who attended some classes up to primary and secondary levels and their monthly income is very low. The multivariate logistic regression analysis shows that woman’s age has positive significant effect on contraceptive use and monthly income, CEB and other earning members have negative significant effect on contraceptive use. Education and age at first birth have positive significant effect on physical violence and CEB has negative significant effect on physical violence. Age at first birth has positive significant effect on HIV/AIDS knowledge and education and age at marriage have negative significant effect on HIV/AIDS knowledge. This study may help policy makers to take special consideration on reproductive health among lower class women and to execute appropriate program for the vulnerable women to develop their status.