Health shocks, care-seeking behaviour and coping strategies of extreme poor households in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill tracts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How and whether health shocks, care-seeking behaviour and coping strategies are interlinked and influence households resilience to ill-health remains an under-researched subject in the context of Bangladesh. This study investigates whether and how health shocks, care-seeking processes and coping strategies interplay and impact the resilience of extremely poor adivasi (ethnic minority) households in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh.

Methods

Our analysis draws from qualitative data collected through a range of methods (see Additional file 1). We conducted 25 in-depth interviews (IDIs) of two adivasi communities targeted by an extreme-poverty alleviation programme, 11 key informant interviews (KIIs) with project personnel (community workers, field officer

SUBMITTER: Kabir A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6664711 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature