Impact of Occupational Risk Factors on the Woman Reproductive Health in Bangladesh: A Perspective

Abstract

Woman Reproductive Health (WRH) is an important social, economic and human development issue. It determines the health of the next generation, since health of new born children depend crucially on the state of mother's health, nutrition and of her opportunity to access of reproductive health care services. From economic perspective, woman reproductive health (WRH) can be considered as a precondition of sustainable economic development. Sound WRH cannot be ensured by intervention in the health care sector alone. To prevent RH problems, sources of the problems should be pointed out and should remove from their roots. Besides access to health care services WRH also depends on their living standard, regular activities, mental status and physical environment of residents and work place. This paper discusses in brief the relevant occupational risk factors in Bangladesh and the consequences of those on WRH which may be helpful for the policy makers to formulate new RH rules and policy or to modify the existing laws in a more realistic way, business entrepreneurs can make aware their female stuffs and can take proper measures to way out, the woman employees can also be informed about the occupational risks and their effects on WRH so that they can be careful and aware as well as follow the suggestive preventive measures to save themselves.