Researchers at Institute of Health Economics Have Published New Data on Health and Medicine (Health insurance for university students in Bangladesh: A novel experiment): Health and Medicine

2022 JAN 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on health and medicine are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of the Institute of Health Economics by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Bangladesh requires some pragmatic initiatives for using its immense potentiality to flourish health insurance. Introducing group health insurance for university students is a groundbreaking idea for stepping toward social health insurance in Bangladesh.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Institute of Health Economics: “This article examined the effect of the health insurance initiative for the university students introduced by the Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka, on attitude toward insurance and protecting financial risk against health care expenditure. We used both management information system (MIS) and primary data obtained through mixed methods. We collected the quantitative data from a baseline survey on 310 students and a year-end survey on 151 students. We used bivariate tools to analyze the data. The results show that the mean score of attitude toward health insurance in the year-end survey (4.04) was significantly higher than the baseline score (3.21). Results also show that a significantly higher percentage of the students reported insurance as ‘useful’ in the year-end survey (83.74%) than the baseline survey (40.40%). The results also reflectes that the scheme has a substantial impact on reducing the out-of-pocket spending for health care, especially for in-patient care, and the anxiety regarding the financing of health care among the students. There is also an indication of sustainability and the feasibility of scaling up such a scheme across the country.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Introducing such health insurance by all the universities may guide the nation toward large-scale group health insurance and social health insurance.”

For more information on this research see: Health insurance for university students in Bangladesh: A novel experiment. Health Science Reports, 2021,4(4):n/a-n/a. (Health Science Reports - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23988835). The publisher for Health Science Reports is Wiley.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.382.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Syed Abdul Hamid, Institute of Health Economics University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh.

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