Table 3.

Incremental costs of the highest priority package (HPP) and the essential universal health coverage (EUHC) by platform and by intervention urgency

	Low-income countries		Lower-middle- income countries
	HPP	EUHC	HPP	EUHC
Incremental costs by platform (percentage of total)
Population-based	0·6%	2·3%	0·6%	2·6%
Community	18%	16%	12%	14%
Health centre	50%	52%	57%	52%
First-level hospital	25%	25%	22%	25%
Referral and specialty hospitals	6·4%	5·3%	9·1%	6·1%
Incremental costs by intervention urgency (percentage of total)
Urgent	35%	28%	27%	24%
Chronic	41%	48%	50%	52%
Time-bound (non-urgent)	24%	24%	23%	24%

The cost and disease structures differ between and within income levels. This is illustrated by considering two income strata, but the analyses reported here can serve only as a starting point for national and subnational analyses.

Sources: Watkins et al (2017)⁵⁷ and Watkins et al (in press).⁴³