Kamardeen, NaazimaChua, Bencharat SaeRahman, Ashma, 1993-2024-01-042024-01-04201820182024Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights and Democratisation))--Mahidol University, 2018https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/91767Human Rights and Democratisation (Mahidol University 2018)Bangladesh since independence, has achieved much progress in public health domain, but the rich and the politically blessed can extract major services from the public health system. Evidence shows that significant numbers of women patients in local health care centers in Bangladesh are facing multi-level discrimination, which constitutes clear violation of their right to health. Such discriminations against women patients are reflected in massive corruption, financial exploitation, negligence and misbehavior by the appointed health care providers, practitioners and the doctors at the primary level health care centers. In this context the objective of the paper is to contextualize the access of right to health by the poorer women patients in local health care centers. The research identifies the forms of discrimination that constitute the violation of the 'right to health'. A qualitative method was adopted for this purpose. The research applies 'Human Rights Based Approach' in its analysis and generated its data from interviews. The discriminatory acts of the healthcare providers against poor women patients clearly breach the rights to health mentioned in the Bangladesh Constitution and Article 25 of the UDHR, 1948. The discriminatory attitude is not only due to the status of the patients but also their gender dynamic. Since most of the poorer population access the local healthcare centers the doctors and medical practitioners don't take them seriously and due to the absence of a proper monitoring system the sufferings of the poor female patients remain unaddressed. There is also a presence of psychological domination of the medical practitioners over the poorer women patience. Thus, research describes that the poor women healthcare seekers in the local healthcare center are subject of multiple level of discriminationix, 65 leaves : ill.application/pdfengผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้าRight to health -- BangladeshRural health services -- BangladeshPrimary care (Medicine) -- BangladeshMahidol University