Family Socio-Economic Status and Maternal Health Care Seeking Behaviour in Rural Bangladesh
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چکیده
This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency distribution, cross-tabulation and partial correlation tests were used to analysis and examine the collected data. These tests suggest that there were significance relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. KeywordsBangladesh, Family, Maternal Health, Socio-Economic Status.
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