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From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh
INTRODUCTION: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance for Global Health (Go4Health) conducted a community consultation process among m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0264-x |
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author | Hussain, Sameera Ruano, Ana Lorena Rahman, Atiya Rashid, Sabina Faiz Hill, Peter S. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance for Global Health (Go4Health) conducted a community consultation process among marginalized groups across the global South aimed at including their voices in the global discourse around health in the post-2015 development agenda. This paper presents findings from the consultations carried out among indigenous communities in Bangladesh. METHODS: For this qualitative study, our research team consulted the Tripura and Mro communities in Bandarban district living in the isolated Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Community members, leaders, and key informants working in health service delivery were interviewed. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS: Our findings show that remoteness shapes the daily lives of the communities, and their lack of access to natural resources and basic services prevents them from following health promotion messages. The communities feel that their needs are impossible to secure in a politically indifferent and sometimes hostile environment. CONCLUSION: Communities are keen to participate and work with duty bearers in creating the conditions that will lead to their improved quality of life. Clear policies that recognize the status of indigenous peoples are necessary in the Bangladeshi context to allow for the development of services and infrastructure. |
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spelling | pubmed-46380812015-11-10 From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh Hussain, Sameera Ruano, Ana Lorena Rahman, Atiya Rashid, Sabina Faiz Hill, Peter S. Int J Equity Health Research INTRODUCTION: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance for Global Health (Go4Health) conducted a community consultation process among marginalized groups across the global South aimed at including their voices in the global discourse around health in the post-2015 development agenda. This paper presents findings from the consultations carried out among indigenous communities in Bangladesh. METHODS: For this qualitative study, our research team consulted the Tripura and Mro communities in Bandarban district living in the isolated Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Community members, leaders, and key informants working in health service delivery were interviewed. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS: Our findings show that remoteness shapes the daily lives of the communities, and their lack of access to natural resources and basic services prevents them from following health promotion messages. The communities feel that their needs are impossible to secure in a politically indifferent and sometimes hostile environment. CONCLUSION: Communities are keen to participate and work with duty bearers in creating the conditions that will lead to their improved quality of life. Clear policies that recognize the status of indigenous peoples are necessary in the Bangladeshi context to allow for the development of services and infrastructure. BioMed Central 2015-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4638081/ /pubmed/26552485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0264-x Text en © Hussain et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Hussain, Sameera Ruano, Ana Lorena Rahman, Atiya Rashid, Sabina Faiz Hill, Peter S. From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title | From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title_full | From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title_fullStr | From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title_full_unstemmed | From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title_short | From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh |
title_sort | from knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in bangladesh |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-015-0264-x |
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