Future Health Systems - Publications

The large informal private sector in Bangladesh consists of many different types of partially qualied and unqualied practitioners, providing care of low quality. Irrespective of their inadequate treatment practices, the informal healthcare practitioners are quite popular among a wide cross section of the rural population. The perceived costs associated with the different healthcare options are probably important factors determining healthcare seeking behaviour. Thus it is important to examine the economic consequences of healthcare utilization in rural Bangladesh.

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2009,

Monday

Jun272011

FHS Bangladesh Research Brief 1 - Health Seeking Behaviour in Chakaria

Authors:

Abbas Bhuiya,

This research brief focuses on the health-seeking behaviour of the people in Chakaria, a rural area in Bangladesh. Information was collected from 1,000 households during February 2007 on the type of illnesses the villagers suffered from during the two weeks preceding the survey and their associated health seeking behavior

2008,

Wednesday

Jun082011

Franchising and training village doctors in Bangladesh

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In FHS's first phase, we helped form a network of the village doctors (VDs) named ShasthyaSena (Health Soldiers) in Chakaria, a remote rural area in the southeast of Bangladesh in 2008. The ShasthyaSena intervention was devised as a regulatory strategy using a social franchise model with the aim of improving and influencing the performance of village doctors.

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2011,

Bangladesh,

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Wednesday

Jun082011

FHS Bangladesh Research Brief 3 - A community health watch to establish accountability and improve performance of the health system

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This research brief focuses on a pilot community empowerment tool that was developed and implementedin a union in Chakaria, a remote coastal area near the southeastern tip of Bangladesh.