Table 2.

Average household expenditure for health care in Bavi, July 2001 to June 2002, Vietnamese dong

	for the whole year	%	average per month
Public health care	129 267	25%	10 772
Commune health stations	23 698	5%	1 975
District health centres	45 621	9%	3 802
Provincial hospitals	32 508	6%	2 709
Central hospitals	26 895	5%	2 241
Others	545	0%	45
Private health care	283 342	55%	23 612
Self-treatment	60 338	12%	5 028
Total curative exp	472 947	91%	39 412
Health insurance	16 227	3%	1 352
Prevention & rehabilitation	29 317	6%	2 443
Total	518 491	100%	43 208

Source: Thuan NTB: The burden of household health care expenditure in a rural district in Vietnam. MPH thesis. Nordic School of Public Health, Sweden; 2002