Correction to: What has been the progress in addressing financial risk in Uganda? Analysis of catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payments

Correction to: BMC Health Serv Res 20, 741 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05500-2

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified some errors in Table 5 and Table 6. The correct tables are given below.

Table 5.

Impoverishment indicators at $1.91 per day poverty line –PPP

	Pre-payment poverty (%) (A)	Post-payment poverty (%) (B)	Absolute difference (%) (B-A)
2005/06 (PPP = 513.9492)
Poverty headcount	51.8	57.02	5.2
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	35.2	37.0
2009/10 (PPP = 741.3262)
Poverty headcount	46.3	50.8	4.5
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	33.39	34.9
2012/13 (PPP = 1043.083)
Poverty headcount	64.0	67.2	3.2
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	39.4	40.2
2016/17 (PPP = 1161.989)
Poverty headcount	49.0	51.7	2.7
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	16.7	18.1

Source: Authors’ computation based on the UNHS 2005–2017 data

Table 6.

Impoverishment indicators (Uganda’s national poverty line)

	Pre-payment poverty (%) (A)	Post-payment poverty (%) (B)	Absolute difference (%) (B-A)
2005/06
Poverty headcount	31.1	35.6	4.6
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	35.2	37.0
2009/10
Poverty headcount	23.2	27.2	4.0
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	27.6	28.3
2012/13
Poverty headcount	19.7	21.7	2.0
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	26.4	26.7
2016/17
Poverty headcount	21.5	24.1	2.5
Normalized mean positive poverty gap	5.3	6.0

Source: Authors’ computation based on the UNHS 2005–2017 data