Households' out?of?pocket expenditure for healthcare in Bangladesh: A health financing incidence analysis

Background Despite improvements in many health indicators, providing access to affordable healthcare remains a considerable challenge Bangladesh. Financing incidence analysis will enable an evaluation of how well the system performs achieve equity financing. The objective this study is assess burden out-of-pocket (OOP) cost on different socio-economic groups by assessing financing because OOP dominates household expenditure Bangladesh. Methods The was conducted using latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016. We focused mainly four specific indicators: level monthly in-patient care, urban-rural differences cost, status payment mechanisms Kakwani index. Descriptive statistics were employed analyse summarise selected variables based SES location residence (e.g., rural urban). Results The showed overall 7.7% income while poorer group suffered more spent up 35% their healthcare. index indicated that poorest quintile spends greater share services than richest quintile. Conclusions This observed Bangladesh regressive, is, members society contribute income. Therefore, policymakers should initiate reforms for developing implementing risk-pooling such as social insurance Universal Health Coverage