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Background Maternal and infant mortality is a major problem in a developing country like Bangladesh and these deaths are mostly related to incomplete antenatal care (ANC) visits. Adequate ANC visits for women are crucial in controlling maternal and infant mortality. Aims To investigate factors associated with ANC visits among women of reproductive age (15-49) in Bangladesh using the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2017–2018 (BDHS) data. Methods This study included 5012 respondents, of whom 2414 women (48.2%) were complete ANC visits and 2598 women (51.8%) were incomplete ANC visits. Quantile regression was used for analysis indicating that the effects of different covariates functioned differently across the utilization of antenatal care visits. The results revealed the women's educational level, birth order number, sex of household head, and wealth index were highly significant on the lower, middle, and higher quantiles of the number of incomplete ANC visits. Besides, in the higher quantiles (for example, 75% quantile), the place of residence was highly significant. For division variables, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Khulna were highly significant in lower and middle quantiles, while Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, and Rajshahi were insignificant in higher quantiles. Conclusions This study observed that education, wealth index, birth order of children, and place of residence are associated with utilization of ANC visits and significantly influence maternal mortality. These determinations can help healthcare programmers and policymakers to take appropriate policies and programs for complete antennal care visits among pregnant women in Bangladesh. In order to increase the number of ANC visits among women, it is necessary to establish a mutually coordinated and trusting relationship between the government, non-governmental organizations and NGOs.

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Climate change and its negative consequences frequently impede to social development through mal-structural function of socioeconomic status but prospective mitigation approach may accelerate to social sustainability. This paper investigates to existing climatic hazards along with functional damage in a society that, how climatic hazards make vulnerable to the social people and evolve a new mitigation pathway to rescue from food insecurities in the community. Depending on observational status, it has been drawn an overall thematic citation and outline regarding with the respondents perception. In the study area, maximum number of people were found to be highly affected owing to long term climatic shocks which is appeared as a social disaster in the aspects of poor socioeconomic status and livelihood crisis. To get sustainability, it is very important to reduce the degree of climatic risk through evolving new technique or technological advancement as to operational feature. As an operational tools, sustainable social clustering technique would be very much effective to search out the more climatic vulnerable people from the communities. Its suggestive policy could be helpful to take the initiatives for the special caring regarding with the need basis insecure people. In addition, better understanding and outstanding results would be effective to cope with climatic shocks and social crisis.

Natural hazards and its negative consequences on agricultural activities revealed that, crop production rate is gradually dwindled. Climatic hazards were identified as a critical factor, whereas it may emerge a barrier to get better crop yielding options. Local perception on natural hazards directly coincided with the observational factors. A number of people were observed food insecure during flooding and drought hazards in case of improper cultivation and marketing approach. Now-a-days food security is a great challenge in rural and disaster prone area, which is indicated to local impacts, occupational stress and livelihood diversification. In addition, a number of climatic factors were found to be significantly negative correlation with the crop production rate. However, compartmental research would be very helpful to build up coping capacity, adaptation and recovery on time measures along with the proper action.

This cross-sectional study, conducted in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, aimed to examine the eating habits and physical inactivity levels of 444 randomly selected university students. Descriptive statistics, Student's t-test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, and chi-square test were used for data analysis. Approximately 44% of the students had irregular breakfast consumption, with a slightly higher proportion of males (46%) than females (42%). Additionally, approximately 23% of the students exhibited irregular dinner habits, with a significant difference between males (9.6%) and females (31%) (p < 0.001). The prevalence of smoking was 13%, with a higher percentage of male smokers (22%) than of female smokers (7.6%) (p < 0.001). Only 19% of both male and female students consumed fruit daily. Rice and meat were the preferred food choices for 57% of students, with slightly higher among males (59%) than females (56%). The majority of students (70%) consumed their favourite food once or twice daily, with females (81%) showing a higher prevalence than males (70%) (p < 0.013). Junk was favoured by 55% of the students, with similar preferences among males (53%) and females (56%). Traditional cooking methods were preferred by 71% of the students. 66% of the students had a normal weight, with a slightly higher proportion of males (67%) than females (65%). Overweight and obesity were observed in 13% and 7.4% of the patients, respectively. Additionally, most females (87%) spent less than two hours watching television daily compared to 80% of males (p < 0.035). Furthermore, physical inactivity was more prevalent among female students (44%) than male students (p < 0.026). This study highlights unhealthy habits among Bangladeshi university students, stressing the need for intervention programs to promote healthier lifestyles.