Author: Md. Jahangir Alam
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-99-01
Year: 1999
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1999
Examination Committee: Yap Kioe Sheng (Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, Hideharu Morishita (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Rapid population growth in the urban areas of Bangladesh, patticularly in the major cities Dhaka and Chittagong, caused by heavy influx of migrants from vast rural areas, has led to severe pressure on the existing utilities and services. Overall health conditions of these urban poor are not so good because they came in the urban area with poor health conditions, which influenced by poverty and illiteracy. They get doubly affected because of poor living conditions with inadequate preventive health facilities and lack of sufficient curative health facilities. The slower rate of expansion of these health facilities only is increasing the destitute conditions of the urban poor. Although, UNICEF, NGOs and some charitable organizations have been working on urban poor health, but they concentrated only to the preventive health. On the other hand urban inhabitants usually receives priority in Government expenditure and policies, but even the large investments in general and specialized hospitals and clinics in the public sector the facilities barely touch the health problems of urban poor. Which lead them to seek modern health cares from private sector. Against this backdrop, a poor community in the south part of Chittagong City was studied. Systematic exploration was done of the existing living conditions patticularly focusing on the availability of preventive health facilities and accessibility to curative health services of the slum dwellers. Opinions were taken from dwellers regarding their service uses and preference and causes for preferences. Also, the study had collected information slum people’s attitude and knowledge about health. The results indicate that the majority of the poor people had same kind of health cares service preference during their illness. According to the present study existing basic services are also inadequate and unsafe for use. The results also indicate that income and education have no impact on their health care behavior in this studied settlement. It was understo
Scholarship Donor(s): DAAD
Note: A thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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