Cargando…
Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh
This paper assesses both out-of-pocket payments for healthcare and losses of productivity over six months postpartum among women who gave birth in Matlab, Bangladesh. The hypothesis of the study objective is that obstetric morbidity leads women to seek care at which time out-of-pocket expenditure is...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
2012
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3397331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22838162 |
_version_ | 1782238167503470592 |
---|---|
author | Hoque, Mohammad Enamul Powell-Jackson, Timothy Dasgupta, Sushil Kanta Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Koblinsky, Marge |
author_facet | Hoque, Mohammad Enamul Powell-Jackson, Timothy Dasgupta, Sushil Kanta Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Koblinsky, Marge |
author_sort | Hoque, Mohammad Enamul |
collection | PubMed |
description | This paper assesses both out-of-pocket payments for healthcare and losses of productivity over six months postpartum among women who gave birth in Matlab, Bangladesh. The hypothesis of the study objective is that obstetric morbidity leads women to seek care at which time out-of-pocket expenditure is incurred. Second, a woman may also take time out from employment or from doing her household chores. This loss of resources places a financial burden on the household that may lead to reduced consumption of usual but less important goods and use of other services depending on the extent to which a household copes up by using savings, taking loans, and selling assets. Women were divided into three groups based on their morbidity patterns: (a) women with a severe obstetric complication (n=92); (b) women with a less-severe obstetric complication (n=127); and (c) women with a normal delivery (n=483). Data were collected from households of these women at two time-points—at six weeks and six months after delivery. The results showed that maternal morbidity led to a considerable loss of resources up to six weeks postpartum, with the greatest financial burden of cost of healthcare among the poorest households. However, families coped up with loss of resources by taking loans and selling assets, and by the end of six months postpartum, the households had paid back more than 40% of the loans. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3397331 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2012 |
publisher | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-33973312012-07-16 Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh Hoque, Mohammad Enamul Powell-Jackson, Timothy Dasgupta, Sushil Kanta Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Koblinsky, Marge J Health Popul Nutr Original Papers This paper assesses both out-of-pocket payments for healthcare and losses of productivity over six months postpartum among women who gave birth in Matlab, Bangladesh. The hypothesis of the study objective is that obstetric morbidity leads women to seek care at which time out-of-pocket expenditure is incurred. Second, a woman may also take time out from employment or from doing her household chores. This loss of resources places a financial burden on the household that may lead to reduced consumption of usual but less important goods and use of other services depending on the extent to which a household copes up by using savings, taking loans, and selling assets. Women were divided into three groups based on their morbidity patterns: (a) women with a severe obstetric complication (n=92); (b) women with a less-severe obstetric complication (n=127); and (c) women with a normal delivery (n=483). Data were collected from households of these women at two time-points—at six weeks and six months after delivery. The results showed that maternal morbidity led to a considerable loss of resources up to six weeks postpartum, with the greatest financial burden of cost of healthcare among the poorest households. However, families coped up with loss of resources by taking loans and selling assets, and by the end of six months postpartum, the households had paid back more than 40% of the loans. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3397331/ /pubmed/22838162 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Hoque, Mohammad Enamul Powell-Jackson, Timothy Dasgupta, Sushil Kanta Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Koblinsky, Marge Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title | Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title_full | Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title_fullStr | Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title_full_unstemmed | Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title_short | Costs of Maternal Health-related Complications in Bangladesh |
title_sort | costs of maternal health-related complications in bangladesh |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3397331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22838162 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT hoquemohammadenamul costsofmaternalhealthrelatedcomplicationsinbangladesh AT powelljacksontimothy costsofmaternalhealthrelatedcomplicationsinbangladesh AT dasguptasushilkanta costsofmaternalhealthrelatedcomplicationsinbangladesh AT chowdhurymahbubelahi costsofmaternalhealthrelatedcomplicationsinbangladesh AT koblinskymarge costsofmaternalhealthrelatedcomplicationsinbangladesh |