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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | |||||||||
|
95.13 | 1399.03 | 6.8 | 77.66 | 1503.54 | 5.2 | 137.84 | 1513.00 | 9.1 |
|
122.13 | 1211.03 | 10.1 | 311.69 | 1384.22 | 22.5 | 172.38 | 1733.14 | 9.9 |
|
65.31 | 1219.10 | 5.4 | 251.10 | 1261.71 | 19.9 | 131.70 | 1181.85 | 11.1 |
|
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.