Louis Niessen, Diwakar Mohan, Jonathan Kweku Akuoku, Andrew J. Mirelman et al.
Five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set targets that relate to the reduction of health inequalities nationally and worldwide. These targets are poverty reduction, health and wellbeing for all, equitable education, gender equality, and reduction of inequalities within and between countries. The...
Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sanchita Chakrovorty et al.
We aimed to estimate the impact of a Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme on utilization of healthcare from medically trained providers (MTP) by informal workers. A quasi-experimental study was conducted where insured households were included in the intervention group and uninsured househo...
Andrew J. Mirelman, Sherri Rose, Jahangir Khan, Sayem Ahmed et al.
In low-income countries, a growing proportion of the disease burden is attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). There is little knowledge, however, of their impact on wealth, human capital, economic growth or household poverty. This article estimates the risk of being poor after an NCD deat...
Jahangir Khan, Antonio J. Trujillo, Sayem Ahmed, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee et al.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about long-term changes linking chronic diseases and poverty in low-income countries such as Bangladesh. This study examines how chronic disease mortality rates change across socioeconomic groups over time in Bangladesh, and whether such mortality is associated with house...
Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Farzana Dorin et al.
BACKGROUND: Rapidly increasing healthcare costs and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases have increased the out-of-pocket (OOP) spending (63.3% of total health expenditure) in Bangladesh. This increasing OOP spending for healthcare has catastrophic economic impact on households. To reduce...
Andrew J. Mirelman, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Louis Niessen
Global Heart is the official and primary publication of the World Heart Federation, offering a platform for the dissemination of knowledge on research, developments, trends, solutions and public health programmes in the area of cardiovascular disease. Global Heart welcomes research results, points o...
Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Felix Roth et al.
OBJECTIVE: We estimated the effect of an employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) scheme on healthcare utilisation of medically trained providers and reduction of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure among ready-made garment (RMG) workers. DESIGN: We used a case-control study design with cross-sectiona...
Sayem Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Sanchita Chakrovorty et al.
Community-based Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes are recommended for providing financial risk protection to low-income informal workers in Bangladesh. We assessed the problem of adverse selection in a pilot CBHI scheme in this context. In total, 1292 (646 insured and 646 uninsured) respondents were s...
Andrew J. Mirelman, Antonio J. Trujillo, Louis Niessen, Sayem Ahmed et al.
When facing adverse health from noncommunicable disease (NCD), households adopt coping strategies that may further enforce poverty traps. This study looks at coping after an adult NCD death in rural Bangladesh. Compared with similar households without NCD deaths, households with NCD deaths were more...
Andrew J. Mirelman