Public Private Partnership in Improving Access and Utilization of Health Care Services: Scopes, Opportunities and Challenges

Improved quality and access to healthcare services are essential for a country’s development. Private sectors like NGOs, for-profit and non-profit organizations have significantly contributed to health by financing and managing healthcare services in different ways. In developing countries, the private sector becomes more critical because, with limited resources, such countries struggle to ensure proper health
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Initiative to Make Bangladesh Railway Tobacco Free-IMBRTF Endline Survey Report

Initiative to Make Bangladesh Railways Tobacco Free (IMBRTF) is an endeavor by the MoR to make railway stations and trains tobacco and smoking free. Under this project, ARK Foundation, has conducted this Endline study in 10 model stations which attempts to understand the overall scenario of the implementation of tobacco laws in the railway stations
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Cigarette Demand Analysis: Bangladesh

This Report was written by Advancement Through Research and Knowledge (ARK) Foundation in Bangladesh. The researchers estimate that the total price elasticity of demand for cigarettes is -0.71. A 10% increase in the price of cigarettes would reduce smoking by 7.1 percent, meaning that cigarette demand is inelastic. The elasticity of smoking prevalence and intensity
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