Anne Hendry, Ana María Carriazo, Eliane Vanhecke, Ángel Rodríguez‐Laso
Frailty is increasingly recognised as a public health priority due to the associated demand for acute and longer term health and social care support, and the impact on the lives of individuals, caregivers and families. Integrated care is widely considered to be most effective when applied to an olde...
Jahangir Khan, Sayem Ahmed
BACKGROUND: The reliance on out-of-pocket payments for health services leads to a catastrophic burden for many households in Bangladesh. The World Health Organization suggests that risk-pooling mechanisms should be used for financing healthcare. Like many low-income countries (LIC), a large share of...
Jason Madan, Knut Lönnroth, Samia Laokri, Stephen Bertel Squire
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem which affects poorest individuals the worst. A high proportion of patients incur 'catastrophic costs' which have been shown to result in severe financial hardship and adverse health outcomes. Data on catastrophic cost incidence is...
Aminu K. Bello, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
Reliable governance and health financing are critical to the abilities of health systems in different countries to sustainably meet the health needs of their peoples, including those with kidney disease. A comprehensive understanding of existing systems and infrastructure is therefore necessary to g...
Joseph B. Babigumira, Alisa Jenny, Rebecca Bartlein, Andy Stergachis et al.
Abstract Objectives Health technology assessment (HTA) for a wide range of healthcare technologies is an essential component of well-functioning health systems. Knowledge of the use of HTA in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. Methods We performed a survey of HTA in selected LMICs....
S. Sadasivan
OBJECTIVES: Although health technology assessment (HTA) has been well established in all developed countries, it has not found a firm footing in many developing countries. This is especially true of the Asia Pacific region, which has much of the world population. METHODS: The beginnings of HTA in th...
Mohammod Feroz Amin, Bishwajit Bhowmik, Rozana Rouf, Monami Islam Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is rising at a rapid rate worldwide. As a chronic, incurable metabolic disease, diabetes affects a person's life in all ways. Studies thus far have focused on the impact of diabetes on the physical and mental health of persons affected by the quality of life (QoL)....
David H. Peters, Abbas Bhuiya, Abdul Ghaffar
Implementation research and the engagement of stakeholders in such research have become increasingly prominent in finding ways to design, conduct, expand and sustain effective and equitable health policies, programmes and related interventions [1]. How to bring together key sets of health systems st...
Md Sadik Pavel, Sayan Chakrabarty, Jeff Gow
BACKGROUND: Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. METHODS: Random sample of 252 patients were interviewed to measure their willingness to pa...
P. H. POWELL, Patricia Smith, R. C. L. FENELEY
Clinical and urodynamic features of patients at risk from acute retention were investigated in 2 retrospective studies. It is suggested that detrusor decompensation may be a cause of acute retention in some individuals. This factor was investigated in a series of patients with outflow obstruction by...
Rebekah R. Heinzen, John F. P. Bridges
OBJECTIVES: To compare four contingent valuation elicitation methods as a means to estimate the value of a pneumococcal vaccine in Bangladesh and to test if the elicitation methods are subject to bias and if they produce valid responses. METHODS: Three hundred sixty-one households with at least one ...
Jan Nilsson, Marti G. Parker, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The purpose of this study was to review instruments of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) to identify an instrument appropriate for elderly people in rural Bangladesh. In addition, it hypothesizes that it is important to include physical, psychological, social, spiritual, economic, and environme...
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Cherri Zhang, Khin Thet Swe, Md. Shafiur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Because of the rapid increase of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and high burden of healthcare-related financial issues in Bangladesh, there is a concern that out-of-pocket (OOP) payments related to illnesses may become a major burden on household. It is crucial to understand what are t...
Anna Hobbins, Luke E. Barry, Dan Kelleher, Ciarán O’Neill
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> The EQ-5D descriptive system has become a widely used generic instrument to measure population health. In this study we use the EQ-5D-5L system to describe the health of residents in Ireland in 2015/16 and examine relationships between health and a range of s...
F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Julia Schröders, Isabella Aboderin, Peter Byass et al.
BACKGROUND: Disability and quality of life are key outcomes for older people. Little is known about how these measures vary with age and gender across lower income and middle-income countries; such information is necessary to tailor health and social care policy to promote healthy ageing and minimis...