Household expenditure per healthcare act by type of act and household income group (dong '000)
| Consultation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income group | Home remedies* | Over the counter drugs* | Commune public* | Commune private* | State hospital*† | State hospital admission† |
| *One way analysis of variance shows that the mean cost differences between the various types of ambulatory healthcare act are significant at the 5% level or less for each income group, except between over the counter drug purchases and commune public consultations and, in the case of non-poor households, between commune public and private consultations. †The hospital cost analysis excludes zero priced acts resulting from fee exemption. ‡Significantly different (p<0.05 Student's t test). | ||||||
| Poor | ||||||
| number of acts | 285 | 444 | 281 | 137 | 48 | 21 |
| mean/act | 2.6 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 29.6 | 40.4 | 230.7‡ |
| (95% CI) | (1.8 to 3.4) | (10.0 to 13.6) | (11.2 to 15.6) | (22.2 to 37.0) | (26.9 to 53.8) | (95.7 to 365.8) |
| median/act | 0.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 12.0 | 23.0 | 102.8 |
| Non-poor | ||||||
| number of acts | 151 | 183 | 139 | 64 | 26 | 14 |
| mean/act | 1.6 | 16.9 | 18.1 | 29.2 | 78.0 | 588.9‡ |
| (95% CI) | (0.8 to 2.4) | (11.9 to 21.9) | (11.9 to 24.3) | (19.2 to 39.2) | (26.0 to 130.0) | (336.1 to 841.7) |
| median/act | 0.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 36.0 | 538.7 |
| Total | ||||||
| number of acts | 436 | 627 | 420 | 201 | 74 | 35 |
| mean/act | 2.3 | 13.3 | 15.0 | 29.5 | 53.6 | 373.5 |
| (95% CI) | (1.7 to 2.9) | (11.3 to 15.3) | (12.4 to 17.6) | (23.3 to 35.7) | (33.2 to 74.0) | (232.9 to 514.1) |
| median/act | 0.0 | 6.5 | 8.0 | 11.7 | 25.0 | 233.7 |