Table 4.
Predicted value of health service utilization and out-of-pocket spending, chance of occurrence of catastrophic health expenditure
| Outpatient visits | Hospital visits | Hospitalized days | Hospitalized days per visit | |||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Medical Aid | 36.16 | 18.38 | 0.33 | 0.24 | 5.63 | 4.67 | 3.99 | 3.12 | ||
| Near-poor | 29.82 | 14.66 | 0.34 | 0.27 | 6.97 | 6.74 | 4.98 | 4.39 | ||
| Above-poverty | 13.71 | 11.81 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 1.92 | 3.16 | 1.52 | 2.16 | ||
| OOP spending | CHE (10%) | CHE (20%) | CHE (30%) | CHE (40%) | ||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Medical Aid | 80.04 | 28.91 | 0.32 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Near-poor | 226.16 | 84.77 | 0.65 | 0.14 | 0.46 | 0.16 | 0.33 | 0.15 | 0.22 | 0.12 |
| Above-poverty | 299.01 | 96.43 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.03 |