Table 7.
Incidence of Catastrophic Health Payments per disease episode, defined with respect to capacity to pay in Ethiopia, 2013
| Out-of-pocket health spending as share of CTP, at 40% threshold budget share |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual CTP | Monthly CTP |
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| Diagnosis |
Average | Average | Rural | Urban | The bottom half quintile | The upper half quintile | Private facilities | Public facilities | |
| Both* | All categories | 1.6% (631) | 31% (631) | 36% (286) | 27% (345)† | 35% (341) | 26% (290)† | 78% (64) | 25% (567)† |
| Outpatient | Pneumonia | 0.3% (277) | 24% (277) | 27% (103) | 23% (174) | 28% (159) | 17% (118)† | 83% (21) | 19% (256)† |
| Diarrhoea | 0.6% (280) | 21% (280) | 31% (157) | 15% (123)† | 29% (150) | 13% (130)† | 53% (19) | 19% (261)† | |
| Inpatient* | Severe pneumonia or diarrhoea | 11% (74) | 96% (74) | 100% (26) | 94% (48) | 100% (32) | 93% (42) | 96% (24) | 96% (50) |
*Both include outpatient and inpatient cases.
†The rate of catastrophic head count varied significantly by place of residence, type of health facility visited or wealth quintile. The numbers in parentheses are the number of observations.
CTP, capacity to pay.