Khurshid Alam, Ajay Mahal
Poor health is a source of impoverishment among households in low -and middle- income countries (LMICs) and a subject of voluminous literature in recent years. This paper reviews recent empirical literature on measuring the economic impacts of health shocks on households. Key inclusion criteria were...
Ruhul Amin, Nirali Shah, Stan Becker
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the socioeconomic differentials in the utilization of these services were based on a limited number of factors, focusing either on...
Evans, Timothy, Whitehead, Margaret, Diderichsen, Finn, Bhuiya, Abbas et al.
Abstract This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of g...
David M. Dror, Shahed Hossain, Atanu Majumdar, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos et al.
INTRODUCTION: This research article reports on factors influencing initial voluntary uptake of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and renewal decisions. METHODS: Following PRISMA protocol, we conducted a comprehensive search of academic and gr...
Hui Wang, Lluís Vinyals Torres, Phyllida Travis
OBJECTIVE: To document the financial protection status of eight countries of the South-East Asian region and to investigate the main components of out-of-pocket expenditure on health care. METHODS: We calculated two financial protection indicators using data from living standards surveys or househol...
Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Rakesh K. Srivastava
Chronic diseases have become a major cause of global morbidity and mortality even in developing countries. The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India cannot be assessed accurately. The approximate prevalence of CKD is 800 per million population (pmp), and the incidence of end-stage renal di...
Shams El Arifeen, Aliki Christou, Laura Reichenbach, Ferdous Arfina Osman et al.
In Bangladesh, rapid advancements in coverage of many health interventions have coincided with impressive reductions in fertility and rates of maternal, infant, and childhood mortality. These advances, which have taken place despite such challenges as widespread poverty, political instability, and f...
Shams El Arifeen, DM Emdadul Hoque, Tasnima Akter, Muntasirur Rahman et al.
Background WHO and UNICEF launched the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in the mid-1990s to reduce deaths from diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles, and malnutrition in children younger than 5 years. We assessed the effect of IMCI on health and nutrition of children young...
Adrianna Murphy, Benjamin Palafox, Marjan Walli-Attaei, Timothy Powell‐Jackson et al.
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. In 2014, the United Nations committed to reducing premature mortality from NCDs, including by reducing the burden of healthcare costs. Since 2014, the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study has been ...
Anwar Islam
The health system of Bangladesh relies heavily on the government or the public sector for financing and setting overall policies and service delivery mechanisms. Although the health system is faced with many intractable challenges, it seems to receive little priority in terms of national resource al...
Upul Senarath, Nalika Gunawardena
This article aims to discuss women's autonomy in decision making on health care, and its determinants in 3 South Asian countries, using nationally representative surveys. Women's participation either alone or jointly in household decisions on their own health care was considered as an indicator of w...
Shamsun Nahar, Anthony Costello
We studied the cost and affordability of 'free' maternity services at government facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to assess whether economic factors may contribute to low utilization. We conducted a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews among 220 post-partum mothers and their husbands, select...
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...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Timothy Evans, Hilary Standing, Simeen Mahmud
How do we explain the paradox that Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in health and human development, yet its achievements have taken place within a health system that is frequently characterised as weak, in terms of inadequate physical and human infrastructure and logistics, and low performin...