Author: Suban Kumar Chowdhury
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-21-02
Year: 2021
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2021
Examination Committee: Joyee S. Chatterjee (Chairperson); Kyoko Kusakabe, Philippe Doneys (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This study aims to investigate and understand the causal pathways through the Garo indigenous women’s maternal health seeking behavior are shaped. An integrated framework using inter-categorical approach to intersectionality and the multi-level model approach has applied in this study. In addition, qualitative method and semistructured interviews technique were used for interviewing the relevant respondents and key-informants. Using the snow-ball sampling technique in total 28 respondents was selected for this study. In addition, total 03 interviews were conducted with key informants. The primary data collection methods include in-depth interview and keyinformant interview. Equally, the secondary data will be collected from the secondary sources. The use of narrative inquiry as a way of communicating and knowing is dominant in this study. Notably, the use of the nanative analytical method allowed the researcher to go deeper into the understanding of the experience and challenges of maternal health seeking behavior of the Garo women. The study found interactional relations among the institutional, structural, interpersonal and individual factors in influencing the maternal health care needs, and thereby maternal health seeking behavior of the Garo indigenous women. The study area’s health system is not responding to the needs, and thus brings a change in the prenatal maternal health seeking behavior. The delivery and postpartum maternal health care needs and related care seeking behavior positively influenced by the interpersonal factors. The insightful findings includes gender-friendly household relations in deciding maternal health care need, mothers’ and in-laws’ and men’s involvement as a caregiver and their positive response towards the expectant and new mothers helped them to translate the needs into exact behavior.
Scholarship Donor(s): Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP)
Note: A thesis submitted in patial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies
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