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Factors Affecting Social Determinants of Female Adolescent Malnutrition in Bangladesh
11 Pages Posted: 20 Jun 2019
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Background: Malnutrition is one of the ten major causes of adolescent death globally. It affects female adolescents living in LMICs like Bangladesh more.Lack of clear cut policy,qualitative researches on social inequality and malnutrition, exclusion of adolescent nutrition from national demographic survey -warrant further qualitative research in this field. To address the problem effectively this paper would explore inequalities existent in factors affecting social determinants of female adolescent malnutrition in Bangladesh.
Aim: To study the impact of social determinants of health affecting female adolescent malnutrition in Bangladesh.
Methods: A quasi systematic review method yielded 15 relevant scholarly studies. 7 of them came from the database search while the rest of the 8 studies were taken from Google Scholar search.Among the remaining 7 studies, 5 papers were selected from Pubmed, and 1 article each were selected from Web of Science and Scopus respectively. Database JSTOR did not yield any relevant paper.
Results: Only 1 paper out of 15 articles focused on Bangladesh which looked into all the components of malnutrition. The study populations compromised of adolescents from privileged and underprivileged background, urban, rural and tribal areas, school and college students of India and Bangladesh. 10 social determinants of health affecting female adolescent malnutrition were identified. The list was as follows- social position, education, marital status, gender, age, access to media, state of habitat, religion and/or belonging to marginalised community, food intake and seasonal variation with regards to first period. All of them were individually responsible for causing malnutrition and some of them were interdependent. However, the most important determinant was poverty which was found in all the studies.
Conclusion: This paper found a lack of research that took every aspect of nutrition into account. The findings were analysed using feminist theory and the argument emerged was that, being poor and female in the unequal, patriarchal society of Bangladesh put female adolescents into more risk of being malnourished.
Funding Statement: The authors declared "Self."
Declaration of Interests: The authors stated: "None."
Ethics Approval Statement: The authors stated: "Not required as it was a secondary research."
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