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. 2009 Apr 3;24(4):289–300. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czp013

Table 3.

Out-of-pocket costs for complicated delivery (2006)

Mean costs
Confidence interval (US$)
N Local currency US$ Lower Upper
Tanzania (Tsh)
    Government hospital 54 8998 8.6 5.4 11.8
    Government health centre 70 4414 4.2 2.5 6.0
    Government dispensary 78 3541 3.4 2.5 4.2
    Pvt. hospital 23 29 805 28.5 19.4 37.5
    Pvt. health centre 6 16 927 16.2 1.1 31.3
    Pvt. dispensary 10 7242 6.9 3.5 10.3
    All facilities 2006 241 8062 7.7 6.2 9.3
Burkina Faso (CFA)
    Government hospital 30 18 499 30.4 17.9 42.9
    Government health centre 151 6579 10.8 8.4 13.2
    Pvt./mission health centre 22 2642 4.3 1.7 7.0
    All facilities 2006 203 8029 13.2 10.5 15.8
Kenya (Ksh)
    Government hospital 64 2023 26.0 14.1 38.0
    Government health centre 34 518 6.7 5.0 8.3
    Government dispensary 14 621 8.0 5.2 10.2
    Pvt. hospital 12 4128 53.1 5.0 101.2
    Pvt. maternity/nursing home 8 15 732 202.4 68.4 336.4
    Mission health centre 17 1197 15.4 9.1 21.7
    Private dispensary 16 1236 15.9 7.8 24.0
    All facilities 2006 165 2363 30.4 20.5 40.3

Pvt: Private, non-government.

N = number of women.