Thalassemia prevention: Religious and cultural barriers to premarital screening in Bangladesh
Health Sci Rep
.
2023 Apr 5;6(4):e1176.
doi: 10.1002/hsr2.1176.
eCollection 2023 Apr.
Authors
Harshini Suresh
1
,
Safayet Jamil
2
3
4
,
Bijaya Kumar Padhi
5
,
Md Jamal Hossain
6
Affiliations
1
Department of Community Medicine Mysore Medical College and Research Institute Mysore Karnataka India.
2
Department of Pharmacy Khwaja Yunus Ali University Sirajganj Bangladesh.
3
Center for Health Innovation Research Action, and Learning Bangladesh.
4
Centre for Advanced Social Research Dhaka Bangladesh.
5
Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India.
6
Department of Pharmacy State University of Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladesh.
PMID:
37033390
PMCID:
PMC10075244
DOI:
10.1002/hsr2.1176
No abstract available
Keywords:
Bangladesh; hemoglobin E; premarital screening; sociocultural barriers; thalassemia.