Table 9.
Mean monthly total household expenditure on treatment paid to different providers
| Home | Private hospital | Public hospital | PHC centres | PMD | Pharmacy | Herba-list | Lab. | Others | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean expenditures on treatment by urban-rural residence | |||||||||
| Urban | 18.7 (467.1) | 1,320.8 (6,357.4) | 720.8 (3,595.1) | 24.5 (2,98.1) | 231.9 (934.5) | 283.1 (1,031.8) | 2.0 (48.3) | 60.4 (442.9) | 207.9 (5,424.1) |
| Rural | 1.5 (44.6) | 624.3 (3,776.2) | 427.1 (4,970.4) | 46.1 (450.4) | 300.2 (1,949.0) | 78.1 (1,193.9) | 3.2 (112.6) | 23.6 (441.8) | 260.8 (3,233.9) |
| X2 (p-value) | 1.4 (.23) | 68.1 (.0001) | 98.4 (.0001) | 3.0 (.082) | 12.7 (.0001) | 435.4 (.0001) | 0.43 (.51) | 48.4 (.0001) | 5.3 (.022) |
| Mean expenditures on treatment by SES | |||||||||
| Quintile 1 | 2.3 (64.5) | 380.5 (1,766.5) | 161.9 (1,194.4) | 53.8 (582.7) | 340.6 (2,668.9) | 99.0 (1,142.3) | 5.6 (172.1) | 44.0 (661.5) | 263.2 (3,641.2) |
| Quintile 2 | 4.4 (120.8) | 721.7 (4,411.1) | 417.8 (3,338.5) | 54.5 (468.1) | 285.0 (1,020.8) | 120.7 (1,376.8) | 2.4 (42.7) | 19.7 (297.9) | 281.0 (2,718.9) |
| Quintile 3 | 1.0 (25.0) | 903.2 (3,797.3) | 608.3 (3,731.4) | 19.4 (186.9) | 269.2 (1,359.7) | 180.9 (700.1) | 1.1 (24.6) | 45.9 (375.7) | 481.4 (8,821.6) |
| Quintile 4 | 32.1 (698.9) | 1,172.1 (4,748.1) | 926.2 (6,521.5) | 28.0 (270.7) | 264.7 (1,076.7) | 243.0 (956.1) | 1.5 (45.0) | 31.1 (259.7) | 82.9 (1,196.6) |
| Quintile 5 | 11.5 (232.4) | 1,726.4 (8,854.9) | 774.2 (4,929.5) | 19.4 (233.4) | 166.4 (576.7) | 271.5 (1,277.9) | 2.4 (53.9) | 71.6 (494.3) | 59.3 (893.3) |
| X2 (p-value) | 1.2 (.88) | 75.8 (.0001) | 105.3 (.0001) | 3.6 (.47) | 52.9 (.0001) | 177.0 (.0001) | 3.8 (.44) | 35.2 (.0001) | 19.0 (.0001) |
| CI | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.24 | -0.22 | -0.11 | 0.20 | -0.25 | 0.13 | -0.21 |
| Total | 10.3 (335.1) | 979.8 (5,265.7) | 577.2 (4,324.6) | 35.1 (380.4) | 265.3 (1,518.2) | 182.8 (118.6) | 2.6 (86.0) | 42.4 (442.7) | 233.8 (4,488.6) |