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  title info:
    title: Peer ethnographic study on menstrual health & hygiene management
  name:
    name part: Tamang,Laxmi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Poudel,Radha.
  name:
    name part: Ghimire, Sachin.
  name:
    name part: Suresh, Tamang.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi,48p.
  abstract: SUMMARY: Menstruation signals a girl's entry into womanhood, sexual activity, and reproduction and as such, is a crucial time for adolescent girls to learn about their bodies and their health. Yet effective solutions to improve menstrual health are lacking, as evidenced by girls' lack of knowledge and unhealthy practices. In Nepal, less than half of adolescent girls have adequate knowledge about menstruation, and only one in ten practices good menstrual hygiene. Adolescent girls' inability to effectively manage menstrual hygiene affects their education, physical health, psychological and emotional well-being, and general quality of life. Adolescent girls in Nepal face many sexual and reproductive health problems and challenges, amidst gender disparity and other discriminatory social norms in Nepali society. Child marriage is legally prohibited, yet 17% of women aged 15-19 begin childbearing (DHS 2016). The median age at first marriage is 17 years. The adolescent fertility rate is 71 per 1,000 women aged 15-19 years with wider differences in urban and rural settings (33% in urban and 80% in rural). During menstruation, a majority of girls (89%) also experienced some form of restrictions or exclusion. One extreme form of menstrual seclusion practice is called chhaupadi, a common social tradition in the far and mid-western hills and mountains that requires menstruating women to leave home and live in a chhau goth (cowshed or hut). Menstrual restrictions and traditional beliefs vary by ethnicity; for example, Hindu ethnic groups such as Brahmin, Chhetri, and Newar, have more restrictions than Janajatis (ethnic Nepalese). There exists limited research on menstrual health and hygiene in Nepal, even though studies confirm that adolescent girls lack consistent access to education on sexual and reproductive health and menstrual health. With inadequate education, they lack even a basic understanding of the biological process of menstruation, such as knowing that the menstrual…
  note: Research Report.
  subject:
    topic: Peer ethnographic
  subject:
    topic: Menstrual health
  subject:
    topic: Hygiene management
  classification: RES-00915
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record creation date: 190617
    record change date: 20220906184708.0