healthcare financing

Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh.
BACKGROUND: Financial risk protection and equity are two fundamental components of the global commitment to achieve Universal Health …
Nurnabi Sheikh, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Touhidul Islam, Susan Howick, Alec Morton
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Assessing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments and their determinants in Bangladesh: evidence from the nationwide Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016.
BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare have been increasing steadily in Bangladesh, which deteriorates the financial …
Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Ziaul Islam, Clas Rehnberg, Louis W Niessen, Jahangir A M Khan
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The effect of a community-based health insurance on the out-of-pocket payments for utilizing medically trained providers in Bangladesh.
BACKGROUND We aimed to estimate the effect of the community-based health insurance (CBHI) scheme on the magnitude of out-of-pocket …
Jahangir A M Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Mohammad Hafizur Rahman, Ziaul Islam, Clas Rehnberg, Louis W Niessen
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Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and poverty related to out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Bangladesh-an estimation of financial risk protection of universal health coverage.
The Sustainable Development Goals target to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection (FRP) among …
JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed, Timothy G Evans
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Impact of educational intervention on willingness-to-pay for health insurance: A study of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: The reliance on out-of-pocket payments for health services leads to a catastrophic burden for many households in …
JAM Khan, Sayem Ahmed
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