Informal health care providers (IPs) comprise a significant component of health systems in
developing nations. Yet little is known about the most basic characteristics of performance …

Background Financial incentives are widely used strategies to alleviate poverty, foster
development, and improve health. Cash transfer programs, microcredit, user fee removal …

Background There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health
services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the …

Quantitative studies on health care utilization often overlook the importance of capturing the
'pathway'of household decision-making processes. This paper offers a four-step construct …

Fever is an easily-recognizable primary sign for many serious childhood infections. In
Bangladesh, 31% of children aged less than five years (under-five children) die from serious …

The increase in female labor force participation (FLFP) in the paid labor market since the
mid-1900s is one of the most pronounced family transitions and increasingly a global …

It is now well recognised that regular microcredit intervention is not enough to effectively
reach the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh, in fact it actively excludes them for structural …

According to social exclusion theory, health risks are positively associated with involuntary
social, economic, political and cultural exclusion from society. In this paper, a social …

This paper considers evidence of the effectiveness of a non-governmental organization
(NGO) primary health care programme in rural Bangladesh. It is based on data from the …

Policy makers in developing countries need to assess how public health programmes
function across both public and private sectors. We propose an evaluation framework to …