Akanksha A. Marphatia, Gabriel S. Ambale, Alice Reid
In many traditional societies, women's age at marriage acts simultaneously as a gateway to new family roles and the likelihood of producing offspring. However, inadequate attention has previously been given to the broader health and social implications of variability in women's marriage age for publ...
Jahangir Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Timothy Evans
The Sustainable Development Goals target to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection (FRP) among other dimensions. There are four indicators of FRP, namely incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), mean positive catastrophic overshoot, incidence of impov...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...
J. Timmons Roberts, Romain Weikmans, Stacy‐ann Robinson, David Ciplet et al.
World Bank
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Curbing the epidemicGovernments and the economics of tobacco controlAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4519-2SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Be...
Colin McCord, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
Mortality has improved dramatically in most of South Asia as a consequence of modest economic improvement, better nutrition and a combination of health education, immunization, family planning and home treatment of certain common diseases, especially diarrhea and respiratory infections. However, dea...
Gerald Bloom, Hilary Standing, Henry C. Lucas, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion...
Nazmul Chaudhury
Unannounced visits were made to health \n clinics in Bangladesh to determine what proportion of \n medical professionals were at their assigned post. Averaged \n over all job categories and types of facility, the absentee \n rate was 35 percent. The absentee rate for physicians was 4...
Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mary MacLennan, Farzana Dorin et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to estimate the technical efficiency of health systems in Asia. SETTINGS: The study was conducted in Asian countries. METHODS: We applied an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to estimate the technical efficiency of the health systems in Asian countri...
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Nabil Awan, Md. Mazharul Islam, Olav Muurlink
Background The rapid growth in cases of COVID-19 has challenged national healthcare capacity, testing systems at an advanced ICU, and public health infrastructure level. This global study evaluates the association between multi-factorial healthcare capacity and case fatality of COVID-19 patients by ...
Nahitun Naher, Roksana Hoque, Muhammad Shaikh Hassan, Dina Balabanova et al.
BACKGROUND: The dynamic intersection of a pluralistic health system, large informal sector, and poor regulatory environment have provided conditions favourable for 'corruption' in the LMICs of south and south-east Asia region. 'Corruption' works to undermine the UHC goals of achieving equity, qualit...
Najmul Haider, Alexei Yavlinsky, Yu‐Mei Chang, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan et al.
Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capability indices. We hypothesised that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would have detected their first COVID-19 case earlier, and would experience lower mortality outcome...
James R Killingsworth, Naomi Hossain, Yuwa Hedrick‐Wong, Stephen Thomas et al.
The widespread collection of unofficial fees at health facilities is a common form of rent-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh. Typically, unofficial fees come in the form of cash payments for the performance of required services, for direct purchase of drugs and medical-surgical requisites, and for ser...
Nitai Chakraborty, Mirajul Islam, Rafiqul I. Chowdhury, Wasimul Bari
Utilisation of health services is a complex behavioural phenomenon. Empirical studies of preventive and curative services in Bangladesh have often showed that the use of health services is related to the availability, quality and cost of services, as well as to social structure, health beliefs and p...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Stuart Gilmour, Eiko Saito, Papia Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has a high proportion of households incurring catastrophic health expenditure, and very limited risk sharing mechanisms. Identifying determinants of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and catastrophic health expenditure may reveal opportunities to reduce costs and protect households...