Reflection of Health Insurance among Bangladeshi Primary School Teachers

• Published in: Bangladesh journal of bioethics (Dhaka) 2023-07, Vol.15 (2), p.1-6
• Main Authors: Mithila, Turna Tribenee, Munda, Beckrom, Navelle, Pascal Landindome, Lasker, Shamima
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Reflection, perception, health insurance, primary school, school teachers
• ISSN: 2226-9231; 2078-1458
• DOI: 10.62865/bjbio.v14i2.61

Over 1.3 billion people in the world are challenged to access good and cheap healthcare when become ill. Health insurance policies are a fantastic strategy to assist people who can't afford medical care. For middle- and low-income nations, there hasn't been much research on the ability to pay for health insurance for public employees like school teachers. Therefore, this cross-sectional questionnaire based research has been undertaken to explore the reflection of health insurance among 383 Bangladeshi school teachers of 5 divisional city center primary school and were being surveyed online between 1st August to 30th August 2022. According to survey, monthly average (mean) health expenditure of respondents were 7668.93 BDT (Bangladeshi Taka equivalent to $80.72) with 95% confidence interval. Of 35% responders suffered from high blood pressure, approximately 8% people were suffering from arthritis and asthma, 7.8% people have heart disease and 8.1 % people suffer from cholesterol problem. Maximum respondents (80%) agreed that health insurance is burden for them. About 51% teachers had no idea about health insurance. However, there was no significant relation in between educational status and health insurance perception for male and female teacher respondents. Moreover, the comparative data highlighted that more awareness and more exploration might be needed in health insurance perception for primary school teachers. This result can contribute to form people’s choice-oriented health insurance policy.