New Findings from Teesside University in the Area of Bioethics Described (Reflection of Health Insurance among Bangladeshi Primary School Teachers): Biotechnology – Bioethics

2024 MAY 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on bioethics are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Teesside University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Over 1.3 billion people in the world are challenged to access good and cheap healthcare when become ill. Health insurance policies are a fantastic strategy to assist people who can’t afford medical care.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Teesside University: “For middle- and low-income nations, there hasn’t been much research on the ability to pay for health insurance for public employees like school teachers. Therefore, this cross-sectional questionnaire based research has been undertaken to explore the reflection of health insurance among 383 Bangladeshi school teachers of 5 divisional city center primary school and were being surveyed online between 1st August to 30th August 2022. According to survey, monthly average (mean) health expenditure of respondents were 7668.93 BDT (Bangladeshi Taka equivalent to $80.72) with 95% confidence interval. Of 35% responders suffered from high blood pressure, approximately 8% people were suffering from arthritis and asthma, 7.8% people have heart disease and 8.1 % people suffer from cholesterol problem. Maximum respondents (80%) agreed that health insurance is burden for them. About 51% teachers had no idea about health insurance. However, there was no significant relation in between educational status and health insurance perception for male and female teacher respondents.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Moreover, the comparative data highlighted that more awareness and more exploration might be needed in health insurance perception for primary school teachers. This result can contribute to form people’s choice-oriented health insurance policy.”

For more information on this research see: Reflection of Health Insurance among Bangladeshi Primary School Teachers. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2023,14(2). (Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics - http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BIOETHICS). The publisher for Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics is Bangladesh Bioethics Society.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.62865/bjbio.v14i2.61.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Mithila Turna Tribenee, Postgraduate student & Special lecturer, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include Beckrom Munda, Pascal Landindome Navelle, Shamima Parvin Lasker.

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