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Healthier, safer Bangladesh

BANGLADESH stands at a critical moment in its public health journey. For decades, the health system has been heavily skewed, treating illnesses after they appear, while prevention and health promotion remain significantly underinvested. The situation is worsened by a fragmented and often non-functional primary health care system in most rural areas, where...

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Social health insurance scheme

ADVOCACY for initiating a general practitioner-based primary health care system, practised in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, looks quite rife in Bangladesh whereas the financing avenue urged for the same is the social health insurance-based model, known also as the Bismarck model, initiated in Germany in 1883. The...