Now a days disability has becomes a great problem. But in dental care, facilities for them are very rare. For the purpose of doing something for disable children a study on oral health status and dental care of disable children was conducted in CRP, Mirpur, Bangladesh. To identify the oral health status of disable children in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. A cross sectional study to assess the oral health condition of disable children was conducted. Data were collected from 125 disable children attending in CRP, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh through purposive sampling technique. Study shows that there was very poor knowledge on brushing technique. 55% brushed their teeth like brush upper teeth from above downward, lower from below upward and side to side movement.64.8% brushed their teeth before breakfast and 17.4% before breakfast and after dinner and others brushes their tooth in other times. 60% had halitosis, and caries rate was 49%. Most of them had abnormal oral habit.80% children had bruxism, 75% had multiple abnormal oral habit. 38.9% had mouth breathing. 63% never visit to a dentist and 20% had visit dentist when they suffered from dental pain.12% visit dentist once a year and only 4% visited dentist for regular check-up. 34% of respondents did not follow proper oral health hygiene. They took care of their teeth by their own method. 20% informed by dental health professional, 18.4% by dentist, 1.6% by radio, 24% by television and 0.8% from printed materials. Most of the participants did not have proper hygienic knowledge as a result they did not take proper dental care. Caries rate was increased with the increase of their age because they did not brush their teeth regularly. Dental health professionals and dentist should work to aware people about oral health status and proper dental care especial program should be arranged for disable children.
INTRODUCTION Micro insurance for health is one method to address unmet health needs. It is an emerging sector, strongly linked to the micro credit movement in Bangladesh. 1 Women are the primary and target market for microinsurance for health. In most cases in Bangladesh, household medical services covered by insurance are accessed through female card-holders. In the case of facilities established by the micro-insurance schemes for health, clinics are largely run by women and women are trained as professional health workers to service the majority of female clientele. 2 Through micro-insurance facilities for health and low or no-cost services, women are able to independently access health services without assistance from male family members either for funding or transportation. Women can go a local clinic and use an insurance card to receive health services. 1 In general, the insurance packages have been designed to include basic service elements of general consultation and treatment, selected antenatal and post-natal care, simple preventative and curative care including drugs, low-cost ABSTRACT Background: Micro insurance for health is one method to address unmet health needs. Women are the primary and target market for micro-insurance for health. The study was conducted to assess the level of awareness on maternal health services among the micro health insurance beneficiaries. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done on 230 micro health insurance beneficiaries and 223 non-insured. The beneficiaries belonged to SAJIDA Foundation under Keraniganj thana and the non-insured belonged to Basila under Mohammadpur thana of Dhaka district. Purposive sampling technique was employed to select the sample and data were collected by face to face interview using a structured interview schedule. Results: The mean age ± SD of the women were 28.1 years ± 5.7 and 24.8 years ± 4.9 in program and comparison area respectively. The mean family income of the respondents of program and comparison area were 14489.13 Tk ± 12641.17 and 6814.35 Tk ± 3010. The women of the program area were more aware about the different components of maternal health than that of comparison area. Majority (93.9%) of women in program area were fully aware of maternal health services than that of comparison area (55.6%). Statistically significant (P <0.001, 2 = 90.72, df = 2) association was found between micro health insurance and level of awareness. Conclusions: Study shows higher proportions of women in programme area were aware on different components of maternal health services than in comparison area. Based on the study findings it can be recommended that steps should be taken to further improvement of the level of awareness on the factors influencing maternal health and the comparison area needs special attention to improve maternal health.
Background: Patient satisfaction is an effective metric for determining the quality of healthcare services. It serves as concrete proof of the administration's ability to effectively provide healthcare services in hospital settings.Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the levels of outpatient satisfaction regarding healthcare services among the 137 patients in the purposively selected a tertiary level hospital located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Results:The mean age of the outpatient was 29.6±13.2 years and more than half (55.5%) from the age groups 18-25 years. The majority of the participants were literate (93.6%) and about half of the patients (48.9%) were students. The mean of the monthly household income was 26109.5±18804.6 BDT. The levels of patient satisfaction regarding the hospital, more than two-thirds of the patients (78.2%) were satisfied. The patient satisfaction was statistically significant with the patient's age group, gender, education and occupation (P<0.05). The levels of satisfaction were satisfactory among the age group 41-65 years (53.6%), males (48.8%), illiterate (55.6%) and homemakers (60.0%). Conclusion:The study findings rendering that most of the patient's satisfaction level was satisfactory. It is necessary to monitor progress continuously in order to determine how sustainable it is.
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