Proximity to health care centres and service intake: The case of Community Clinics in Bangladesh

Syed Hasan, Tasnima Akter, Musharrat Jahan and Ashraf Dewan
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Tasnima Akter: Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Musharrat Jahan: UNICEF, Bangladesh
Ashraf Dewan: School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Australia

No 2201, Discussion Papers from School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand

Abstract: We investigate how distance from heath centres affects service intake for women and children. Relying on five rounds of recent nationally representative demographic and health survey data from Bangladesh, our logistic regression analyses reveal that proximity to health centres barely affects the intake of health care services for women and children, even in the country’s rural areas. Interestingly, this indicates that the newly established Community Clinics have not significantly contributed to the country’s intake of health care services. The low service intake may result from their poor standard at the local health centres indicating that improving the service quality can help Bangladesh in raising the intake of health care services. Other ways to encourage people, like mandating ANC and PNC visits and vaccination and the introduction of referral services, can also improve the health service intake rate.

Keywords: Health service delivery; Community Clinics; Health centre’s proximity; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-dev and nep-hea
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