Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee
Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Out-of-Pocket Payments in Rural Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
study investigates determinants patients choice treatment ie modern vs alternative healthcare using bangladeshs household income expenditure survey hies dataset exploring healthcareseeking behavior extent outofpocket oop payment due illnessesit explores issues using descriptive statistics bivariate analysis like analysis variance anova chisquare test well econometric modeling probit regression model modern healthcare utilization full sample well quintileall help identify determinants healthcareseeking behavior rural bangladesh vary across quintiles expenditure food consumptionthis study finds higher percentage healthcareseeking patients receives alternative healthcare lower cost easier access compared modern healthcarethe marginal effects predisposing factors like patients age parents literacy mothers age house separate dining room access electricity mobile significantly positive means likely influence modern healthcare utilizationin contrast marginal effects enabling factors like income landholdings access social benefit positive insignificanttherefore predisposing factors rather enabling factors play crucial role determining choice modern treatment rural bangladeshin addition variations marginal effects exist across different groups based regression quintilefinally sickness prevalence well modern healthcare utilization also varies across geographic regionsthe average oop payment higher modern healthcare compared alternative one remains true disaggregation oop expenditurediseasespecific oop using firstdifference method also positive diseases ie oop expenditure modern healthcare oop expenditure alternative healthcare firstdifference estimates statistically significantsimilar tendencies also observed case applying distributional analysis using quintilesall important formulating national health policy rural people bangladeshat last special attention expanding utilization modern healthcare required young mothers elderly household head patients belong minority group rural bangladesh