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. 2024 Mar 5;7:100490. doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100490

Table 2.

Average Expenditure (in USD) and Health Care Burden of Tuberculosis by selected socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the tribal patients in India (NSS 2004–2018).

Background Characteristics NSS-2004
NSS-2014
NSS-2018
OOPE (in USD) YCE (in USD) Health Care Burden (%) OOPE (in USD) YCE (in USD) Health Care Burden (%) OOPE (in USD) YCE (in USD) Health Care Burden (%)
Age (in years)
  • 0-14

95.13 1399.03 6.8 77.66 1503.54 5.2 137.84 1513.00 9.1
  • 15-35

122.13 1211.03 10.1 311.69 1384.22 22.5 172.38 1733.14 9.9
  • 36-59

65.31 1219.10 5.4 251.10 1261.71 19.9 131.70 1181.85 11.1
  • 60 and above

66.10 919.64 7.2 52.30 833.42 6.3 200.91 1629.85 12.3
Education
Illiterate 79.45 1093.13 7.3 61.72 968.53 6.4 197.36 1182.49 16.7
Up toPrimary 88.16 1443.52 6.1 333.18 1238.50 26.9 128.44 1214.78 10.6
Middle 59.04 1346.22 4.4 315.56 1331.38 23.7 145.98 2710.93 5.4
Secondary and above 172.91 1015.82 17.0 225.83 3437.41 6.6 185.86 1650.30 11.3
Gender
Male 75.68 1068.54 7.1 193.96 1113.08 17.4 177.00 1411.72 12.5
Female 93.27 1334.23 7.0 296.48 1430.91 20.7 119.70 1678.48 7.1
MPCE quintile
Poorest 69.89 900.99 7.8 335.28 830.51 40.4 195.72 867.18 22.6
Poorer 143.55 1244.41 11.5 81.98 1002.35 8.2 85.28 1346.53 6.3
Middle 64.77 1427.06 4.5 208.94 1165.99 17.9 233.29 1233.08 18.9
Richer 79.57 1498.22 5.3 441.78 2221.00 19.9 168.29 1653.86 10.2
Richest 80.80 1209.58 6.7 120.24 3154.94 3.8 94.26 3427.47 2.8
Place of residence
Rural 81.94 1091.56 7.5 243.90 1163.10 21.0 157.23 1398.69 11.2
Urban 80.08 2065.54 3.9 107.06 2249.86 4.8 193.31 2611.41 7.4
Type of health facility
Public hospital 76.36 1190.72 6.4 204.64 1173.21 17.4 67.07 1409.77 4.8
Private hospital 102.31 1049.11 9.8 364.25 1523.12 23.9 289.40 1779.87 16.3
Type of ward
Free 69.94 1142.50 6.1 162.79 1185.51 13.7 58.09 1358.91 4.3
Paid 158.68 1281.05 12.4 472.63 1414.69 33.4 326.70 1707.15 19.1
Duration of stay in hospital
Up to 5 days 44.27 1172.83 3.8 61.82 992.92 6.2 93.98 1588.74 5.9
6–10 days 111.34 1159.04 9.6 279.71 1051.67 26.6 179.80 1652.76 10.9
11and above 143.77 1135.87 12.7 342.32 1554.71 22.0 244.00 1048.21 23.3
Health-care coverage
No coverage 247.69 1201.14 20.6 165.30 1498.70 11.0
Public 203.63 1282.64 15.9 149.40 1474.06 10.1
Private 22.91 2748.88 0.8
Total 81.81 1161.03 7.0 234.41 1238.48 18.9 159.97 1491.01 10.7

Notes: Currency exchange rate of 1 USD=Rupee 82.6321 (Average exchange rate in February 2023: 82.6321) was used for conversion as per values obtained from.