Table 2.
Brest cancer out-of-pocket, catastrophic, and impoverishment health expenditures by SES quintiles (Monthly data-$US)
| Expenditure indexes | Percent of households with CHE at different threshold | OOP expenditures (SD) |
Percent of impoverished households | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40% | 20% | 10% | ||||
| SES Quintiles | Q1 (poorest) | 22.22 | 33.33 | 44.44 | 69.97 (66.95) | 18.52 |
| Q2 | 11.11 | 18.52 | 29.63 | 68.70 (53.51) | 0.00 | |
| Q3 | 11.11 | 25.93 | 33.33 | 82.33 (63.18) | 3.70 | |
| Q4 | 14.29 | 28.57 | 53.57 | 128.22 (119.52) | 3.57 | |
| Q5 (richest) | 10.34 | 31.03 | 41.38 | 140.83 (98.94) | 0.00 | |
| All households | 13.77 | 27.54 | 40.58 | 97.87 (89.30) | 5.07 | |
| Q1:Q5 ratio | 1.61 | 1.21 | 1.10 | 0.50 | 3.65b | |
| Chi square for trend (P-value) | 2.24 (0.69) | 1.78 (0.78) | 4.07 (0.40) | 4.81 (0.001)a | 13.37 (0.01) | |
aOne-way ANOVA test is used
bis the result of first quintile by the average value