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Bangladesh has a success story in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to women’s development. Women’s participation in income-generating activities, education, and politics has also increased significantly in the recent years. Under the circumstances, the proposed study endeavors to discover the gender perspectives in health-related situation in a village named Kathalbari situated in northern Bangladesh. Using social survey method, heads of household and their spouses were interviewed using structured questionnaires to know about their health-related situation and practices. Data have been processed and analyzed using SPSS software. Factors that affect health condition of men and women have been identified using binomial logistic regression. The findings suggest that disparity between men and women regarding getting nutritious food, maintenance of necessary hygiene, and seeking medical care is not very conspicuous. Among many variables, ownership of land and age affect men’s health condition, while women’s health condition was significantly affected by age and use of contraceptives (significance level 0.05).
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I express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Md. Ashraful Islam Khan, Professor, Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, for the advisory support I received from him in writing this paper.
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Akmam, W. (2019). Gender Perspectives in Health-Related Situation in Rural Bangladesh: A Microlevel Study. In: Batabyal, A., Higano, Y., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 38. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6268-2_5
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