Table 1.

Impoverishing impact of OOP healthcare payments in Ghana, 2005/2006*

	Poverty line-$1.25/day				Poverty line-$2.50/day
National	Gross of health payment	Net of health payment	Absolute	Relative	Gross of health payment	Net of health payment	Absolute	Relative
Poverty headcount	17.04%	18.64%	1.59%	9.35%	48.02%	49.85%	1.83%	3.82%
Standard error	0.00944	0.00998	0.00194		0.01324	0.01323	0.00182
Poverty gap	90925.73	129776.3	38850.56	42.73%	651869.7	720124.1	68254.3	10.47%
Standard error	6223.579	13588.53	11871.4		24709.07	28546.66	12477.93
Normalized poverty gap	5.36%	7.65%	2.29%	42.73%	19.20%	21.21%	2.01%	10.47%
Standard error	0.00367	0.00800	0.00699		0.00728	0.00841	0.00368
Normalized mean poverty gap	31.43%	41.02%	9.59%	30.52%	39.99%	42.55%	2.56%	6.41%
Standard error	0.01169	0.03840	–		0.00757	0.01031	–

*At the time of data collection the cedi (¢) was being denominated meaning the new Ghana cedi denoted Gh¢ had four zeros knocked off; 1Ghc = 10,000 ¢ (the old currency). The interbank exchange rate was 7000¢ =1US$ = 0.7Gh¢. The old cedi (¢) is used throughout the paper