Table 5.
Impact of OOP payments for outpatient care on poverty
| Measures of poverty | Gross of OOP payments (1) | Net of OOP payments (2) |
Difference |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute (3=2-1) | Relative (3/1)*100 | |||
|
Poverty headcount ratio (95%CI) |
1% (0.7, 1.3) |
1.8% (1.4, 2.2) |
0.9% |
91.6% |
| Standard error |
0.002 |
0.002 |
|
|
|
Mean Poverty gap (INR) (95%CI) |
2.4 (1.48, 3.27) |
19.5 (−5.26, 44.32) |
17.2 |
724.1% |
| Standard error |
0.457 |
12.643 |
|
|
|
Normalised poverty gap (INR) (95%CI) |
0.4% (0.246, 0.545) |
3.3% (−0.876, 7.390) |
2.9% |
724.6% |
| Standard error |
0.076 |
2.108 |
|
|
|
Mean positive poverty gap (INR) (95%CI) |
242.4 (191.8, 293.1) |
1039.3 (−289.3, 2367.9) |
796.9 |
328.7% |
| Standard error |
24.963 |
666.160 |
|
|
|
Normalised mean positive poverty gap (95%CI) |
40.4% (31.99, 48.87) |
173.3% (−48.24, 394.88) |
132.9% |
328.7% |
| Standard error | 4.163 | 111.090 | ||