Table 3. Household out-of-pocket spending on health care in the previous 30 days, by economic quintile,a Nepal, 2011–2012.
Expenditure | Households that reported expenditure on health |
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All (n = 1 517) | Quintile 1 (n = 270) | Quintile 2 (n = 275) | Quintile 3 (n = 301) | Quintile 4 (n = 324) | Quintile 5 (n = 347) | |
Costs per household, Nepalese rupees (SE)b | ||||||
Outpatient | 1 999 (202) | 1 564 (266) | 2 123 (664) | 1 559 (149) | 2 037 (242) | 2 722 (514) |
Inpatient | 39 657 (6 310) | 25 200 (12 437) | 51 147 (20 377) | 26 059 (8 153) | 34 578 (7 170) | 50 044 (8 104) |
Ayurvedic | 861 (138) | 301 (55) | 907 (251) | 828 (131) | 759 (460) | 1 268 (340) |
Other traditional medicine or healers | 335 (100) | 263 (117) | 239 (80) | 346 (130) | 512 (336) | 319 (117) |
Transportation and other costs | 471 (74) | 31 (8) | 143 (53) | 98 (28) | 90 (36) | 69 (26) |
Proportion of total household expenditure represented by out-of-pocket spending on health care, % (SE) | 10.1 (1.26) | 10.7 (1.55) | 14.8 (3.80) | 8.3 (1.81) | 10.3 (3.24) | 6.9 (1.48) |
SE: standard error; US$: United States dollars.
a Quintile 1 represents the poorest households and quintile 5 represents the wealthiest households.
b The average conversion rate during the study was 1 Nepalese rupee to US$ 0.012.