- Health Data
Inequity is present in most of the health indicators across social, economic, and demographic parameters.
1.1 Health Indicators
1.2 Macro-economic and Demographic Indicators
1.3 Levels of Administration
The health system of Bangladesh is experiencing a double burden of diseases, low service coverage, and a lack of effective financial risk protection mechanism.
2.1 The Health Map of Bangladesh
2.2 Enablers to Quality Health
2.3 Challenges of the Health System
2.4 The Rural Urban Divide
Bangladesh has a pluralistic healthcare system, which is highly unregulated and consists mainly of four key actors: government, for-profit private sector, not-for-profit private sector (mainly the nongovernmental organizations ), and the international development organizations.
3.1 Partnership Approaches
3.2 Public System Overview
3.3 Private System Overview
3.4 The Role of NGOs
Bangladesh outsourced many elements of CHW programming to leverage the knowledge, resources and experience of it's NGO partners. The government's shift from provider of services to manager of services has allowed NGOs to take the lead in innovating, testing and delivering care.
4.1 The Community Health Worker Model
a. Type of Community Health Workers
b. Main Actors Involved
c. Program Overviews
4.2 Midwifery in Bangladesh
There was found to be substantial variations across different divisions of Bangladesh, with gross imbalance in distribution favouring urban areas. The Bangladesh health workforce is not simply skewed towards doctors, figures also show that there are considerable unfilled vacancies for public sector posts, as well as widespread absenteeism of doctors in public facilities.
5.1 Distribution of Healthcare providers
5.2 What Stands Out?
There is heavy reliance on (Out of Pocket) OOP payments, which exceed 63.0% of the total health expenditure. Further, this heavy reliance on OOP payments reduces household living standards and may lead to poverty or ultimately push households to deeper poverty.
6.1 Realities of Health Financing
6.2 Distribution of out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare
6.3 Health Schemes and Insurance
6.4 Existing Health Schemes
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on essential health services in Bangladesh, leading to a drastic reduction in utilisation of the major essential health services across all levels of health systems due to multiple factors.
7.1 Infrastructural Adaptations
7.2 Health Service Disruptions
7.3 Health Service Adaptations
7.4 Covid-19 vaccination rollout
Read more and look through all the data collected through secondary research as we continue building and mapping the Health System of Bangladesh.