Discussions about health sector reform have been intense lately. With experts from diverse backgrounds opining on what needs to be fixed, little is on the table about healthcare workers' health, safety, and well-being. Without taking care of the workers who provide patient care services directly an

Reports from the Health Economics Unit of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of Bangladesh show that out-of-pocket health expenditure was 56 per cent in 1997 and increased to 62 per cent in 2012. Around 67 per cent of all medical expenses in Ban

Bangladesh has implemented the Employment Injury Scheme Pilot (EIS-PILOT) to help compensate workers in the readymade garment (RMG) industry who sustain workplace injuries or lose their lives. This programme aims to give RMG employees and their families some measure of financial stability. To help

A series of major disasters over the last several years, including a fire incident that killed 112 workers and a factory building collapse that killed 1,122 workers, have provoked widespread calls domestically and internationally to improve the workplace health and safety situation in Bangladesh. T

In yet another building fire incident in Dhaka, over 46 people lost their lives. According to the details given by the newspapers and electronic media thus far, the story is the same old one with similar causes and circumstances. There was the habitual carelessness on the part of building owners, r

With the daily dengue hospitalisation cases reaching 1,246 and the total death toll rising to 93 so far this year according to the most recent official data, the importance of having a functional health surveillance system in Bangladesh is again at the forefront of all public health discussions. Ac

A host of factors determines our health. For making health policy, and developing and delivering health programmes, it is very important to know what these determinants are, how these influence health, and then develop a useful framework to understand it. Bangladesh has been building facilities ext

The number of road traffic accidents and the resulting injuries and fatalities have been steadily on the rise in Bangladesh. It appears that all interventions put so forth including policies, programmes, regulatory enforcement, and educational campaigns to build awareness have not yielded any notab