This chapter examines two case studies of young disadvantaged urban women’s health, highlighting key aspects of their life narratives across two decades living in Dhaka’s slum settlements. Focusing on Monsura’s health circumstances from 2002–2003 and Meena’s from 2020–2022, their narratives illustrate and interrogate the commonly omitted or made invisible health experience contexts and realities faced by disadvantaged urban women and their families despite the passage of time. Their stories reveal authoritative and unequivocal insights into the intersectionality of poverty and health within daily life, as predicated upon local, national, and global economic, social, political, and legal governance constituting their health within urban slums. Such in-depth perspectives, ethnographic data and extensive human evidence are overlooked by biomedical models, global health research, the medical field and global health practices. Their relentless everyday struggles, whether facing marital violence, unemployment, children’s illness, unsanitary living conditions, or eviction engender lives of chronic deprivation. This chapter adopts a narrative and reflective approach, individually yet critically challenging conventional health conceptions on poverty within Public Health and Economic Development.