Out-of-pocket expenditure on medicines in Bangladesh: An analysis of the national household income and expenditure survey 2016-17.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

High out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) increases the probability that households will become impoverished or will forgo needed care. The aim of this paper is to study household medicines expenditure and its associated determining factors to develop policies to protect households from financial hardship.

Methods

The present cross-sectional and population-level study used the Bangladesh 2016-17 National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES). The final sample size was 46,080 households. We analyzed the probability of OOPE for medicines, the share of total OOPE due to medicines out of total OOPE in health (reported as a ratio between zero and one), the OOPE amount for medicines reported (in United States Dollars), and the share of OOPE amount o

SUBMITTER: Servan-Mori E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9480983 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature