Table 3.
Inpatient and outpatient health expenditure of households with illness
| Expenditure | Urban | Rural | pa value | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean | ±SD | (Range) | N | Mean | ±SD | (Range) | ||||
| Health expenditure (US$) | 107 | 419 | ±1,473 | (3–11,812) | 194 | 80 | ±154 | (1–942) | <0.001 | ||
| Quintile 1 (20–260) | 20 | 39 | ±41 | (6–140) | 43 | 36 | ±97 | (1–585) | |||
| Quintile 2 (261–334) | 15 | 31 | ±33 | (3–117) | 45 | 43 | ±78 | (1–363) | |||
| Quintile 3 (335–429) | 14 | 62 | ±66 | (6–185) | 47 | 34 | ±71 | (1–386) | |||
| Quintile 4 (430–573) | 22 | 130 | ±155 | (6–189) | 32 | 101 | ±165 | (1–646) | |||
| Quintile 5 (573–1,953) | 36 | 990 | ±2,310 | (8–1,1813) | 27 | 256 | ±257 | (2–942) | |||
| Self-prescribed medication(US$)a | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Outpatient services (US$)a | 99 | 163 | ±549 | (3–4,912) | 180 | 31 | ±82 | (1–591) | <0.001 | ||
| Inpatient services (US$)a | 35 | 807 | ±23,556 | (4–11,813) | 45 | 216 | ±182 | (18–942) | 0.892 | ||
SD: standard deviation, US1: United States dollars based on a currency exchange rate of 855 kyats to 1 US1
a p value from Mann-Whitney U test