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Do employer-sponsored health insurance schemes affect the utilisation of medically trained providers and out-of-pocket payments among ready-made garment workers? A case–control study in Bangladesh

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  • Sayem Ahmed Health Economics and Financing Research, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh Health Economics and Policy, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abdur Razzaque Sarker Health Economics and Financing Research, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Health Economics and Financing Research, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marufa Sultana Deakin Health Economics, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Felix Roth Swiss Micro Insurance Consultancy Group (SMCG), Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rashidul Alam Mahumud Health Economics and Financing Research, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh Health Economics and Policy Research, Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Md Kamruzzaman Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Md Zahid Hasan Health Economics and Financing Research, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew J. Mirelman Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ziaul Islam Health Economics and Financing Research, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Louis W. Niessen Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Clas Rehnberg Health Economics and Policy, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • AK Azad Khan Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Niklaus Gyr Department of Internal Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jahangir A.M. Khan Health Economics and Policy, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Sayem Ahmed; sayemahmed{at}icddrb.org; sayem72936{at}yahoo.com
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Ahmed S, Sarker AR, Sultana M, et al
Do employer-sponsored health insurance schemes affect the utilisation of medically trained providers and out-of-pocket payments among ready-made garment workers? A case–control study in Bangladesh
BMJ Open 2020;10:e030298. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030298

Publication history

  • Received March 7, 2019
  • Revised December 2, 2019
  • Accepted December 17, 2019
  • First published March 3, 2020.
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January 10, 2022
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