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Title: The impact of community-based health insurance on the utilization of medically trained healthcare providers among informal workers in Bangladesh
Authors: Sarker, AR
Sultana, M
Chakrovorty, S
Ahmed, MW
Dorin, F
Mirelman, AJ
Islam, Z
Rahman, MH
Niessen, LW
Rehnberg, C
Khan, JAM
Keywords: health insurance;Bangladesh;health care providers;Socioeconomic aspects of health;agriculture;health economics;infectious diseases;physicians
Issue Date: 11-Jul-2018
Publisher: PLOS
Citation: Ahmed, S. et al. (2018) 'The impact of community-based health insurance on the utilization of medically trained healthcare providers among informal workers in Bangladesh', PLoS ONE, 13 (7), e0200265, pp. 1 - 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200265.
Abstract: 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 households in comparison group. In total 1,292 (646 insured and 646 uninsured) households were surveyed from Chandpur district comprising urban and rural areas after 1 year period of CBHI introduction. Matching of the characteristics of insured and uninsured groups was performed using a propensity score matching approach to minimize the observed baseline differences among the groups. Multilevel logistic regression model, with adjustment for individual and household characteristics was used for estimating association between healthcare utilization from the MTP and insurance enrolment. The utilization of healthcare from MTP was significantly higher in the insured group (50.7%) compared to the uninsured group (39.4%). The regression analysis demonstrated that the CBHI beneficiaries were 2.111 (95% CI: 1.458–3.079) times more likely to utilize healthcare from MTP.CBHI scheme increases the utilization of MTP among informal workers. Ensuring such healthcare for these workers and their dependents is a challenge in many low and middle income countries. The implementation and scale-up of CBHI schemes have the potential to address this challenge of universal health coverage.
Description: Supporting information is available online at: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200265#sec017 .
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200265
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Sayem Ahmed https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-1500
e0200265
Appears in Collections:Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers

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