Willingness-to-pay for community-based health insurance among formal and informal doctors in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a comparative cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health insurance enables financial protection and reduces medical burdens. Currently, less than 1% of Bangladeshi citizens have health insurance coverage. We aimed to assess the willingness-to-pay for community-based health insurance and explore associated factors among formal and informal doctors in Bangladesh.

Methods

This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on Bangladeshi doctors with formal and informal employment. For each group, 116 doctors were selected via purposive sampling, as no national register of doctors was available, indicating their current employment status and purposive selection ensured equal inclusion of formal and informal doctors. Separate binomial logistic regression models were fitted for each independent variable, adjusting

SUBMITTER: Al Fidah MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12766766 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature