TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo y học: "Free does not mean affordable: maternity patient expenditures in a public hospital in Bangladesh"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Free does not mean affordable: maternity patient expenditures in a public hospital in Bangladesh. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Research Open Access Free does not mean affordable maternity patient expenditures in a public hospital in Bangladesh Suhaila H Khan Address Department of International Health and Development Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1440 Canal Street Suite 2200 New Orleans LA 70112 USA Email Suhaila H Khan - skhan3@ Corresponding author Published 19 January 2005 Received 29 July 2004 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2005 3 1 doi 1478-7547-3-1 Accepted l9January 2005 This article is available from http content 3 1 1 2005 Khan licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective This study investigated a the amount and types of out-of-pocket expenditures by patients for nominally free services in a large public hospital in Bangladesh b the factors influencing these expenses and c the impact of these expenses on household income. Methods Eighty-one maternity patients were interviewed during their hospitalization in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Patients were selected by quota sample to match the distribution of maternity patient categories in the hospital. Patients were interviewed with a semi-structured in-depth questionnaire. Results All interviewees incurred substantial out-of-pocket expenditures for travel hospital admission fees medicine tests food and tips. Only two of the expenditures travel expenses and admission fees were not supposed to be provided free of charge by the hospital. The median total per-patient expenditure was 65 range 2- 350 equivalent to 7 range -225 of annual household income. Half of all patients reported that their families had to borrow to pay for .

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