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Table 3 Catastrophic health expenditure and medical impoverishment in households by income quintile (including transportation costs)

From: Assessing catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in adult asthma care: a cross-sectional study of patients attending six public health clinics in Klang District, Malaysia

 

Out-of-pocket payment (including transportation costs)

Quintiles of household income

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

Total

Complete data (N)

204

213

232

155

199

1,003

Proportion meeting criteria for poverty at baseline

mean

100.0

100.0

0

0

0

41.5

SE

     

1.56

95% CI lower bound

     

38.5

95% CI upper bound

     

44.6

Out-of-pocket payment as % of household income

mean

3.02

1.03

0.67

1.07

0.29

1.21

SE

0.80

0.23

0.09

0.65

0.04

0.20

95% CI lower bound

1.45

0.58

0.48

-0.20

0.22

0.82

95% CI upper bound

4.58

1.49

0.85

2.35

0.36

1.60

Proportion meeting criteria for catastrophic health expenditure (10% income threshold)

mean

6.37

0.47

0.86

0.65

0.00

1.69

SE

1.71

0.47

0.61

0.65

 

0.41

95% CI lower bound

3.01

-0.45

-0.33

-0.62

 

0.89

95% CI upper bound

9.74

1.39

2.06

1.91

 

2.50

Proportion meeting criteria for medical impoverishment

mean

*NA

*NA

0.43

0.65

0.00

0.34

SE

  

0.43

0.65

 

0.24

95% CI lower bound

  

-0.42

-0.62

 

-0.13

95% CI upper bound

  

1.28

1.91

 

0.81

  1. *NA not applicable, patients in Q1 and Q2 were already below poverty line