Rukhsana Gazi

TL;DR: Informal workers in urban areas thus are willing to pay for CBHI and socioeconomic differences explain the magnitude of WTP, and the policy maker might think introducing community-based model including public-community partnership model for healthcare financing of informal workers.

TL;DR: There is a need to develop rigorous studies to evaluate the effects of social franchising on access to and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: Findings implied that it is imperative to launch effective strategies to make accurate information or services available and accessible to adolescents and a more comprehensive approach that goes beyond the production of BCC materials to increase community awareness is needed to create a supportive environment for adolescents.

TL;DR: Very few economic evaluation studies in Bangladesh are found in different areas of health and health-related interventions, which does not provide a strong basis of knowledge in the area, and the majority of the studies did not follow the scientific method of economic evaluation process, which resulted into lack of robustness of the analyses.

TL;DR: The findings of the study indicate that it is feasible to carry out a large-scale study to further explore the costs of different hospital-care services, and to indentify the practical challenges of conducting costing studies in the hospital setting in Bangladesh.