Child mortality is still high in Bangladesh, despite significant improvements in levels of child
mortality. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh is planing
to enhance child healthcare facilities by introducing an essential package of health services.
To introduce this package effectively, policymakers and programme managers are required
to understand how different issues may affect the decision-making process in relation to the
use of child healthcare. The main causes of child morbidity and mortality, which are though …

This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of child health care seeking behaviours in
rural Bangladesh. In particular, the effects of income, women's access to income, and the
prices of obtaining child health care are examined. Data on the use of child curative care
were collected in two rural areas of Bangladesh—Abhoynagar Thana of Jessore District and
Mirsarai Thana of Chittagong District—in March 1997. In estimating the use of child curative
care, the nested multinomial logit specification was used. The results of the analysis indicate …