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Table 5 Median and mean costs to travel for medicine, by year

From: Out-of-pocket expenditures for primary health care in Tajikistan: a time-trend analysis

 

Expenditure on medicine

 

2005

2007

2008

2011

N with prescription

539

1372

1273

526

% with reported costs a

60.3

65.8

58.5

53.2

Mean US$(2011)

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4

Mean US$(2011)

1.4

1.6

1.4

1.5

(95% CI)

(1.0 – 1.7)

(1.3 – 1.9)

(1.1 – 1.6)

(1.2 – 1.8)

  1. ª % is the proportion of patients who reported travel costs to obtain medicine.
  2. Kruskall-Wallis test of differences in median costs across years : χ2=12.179(3df), P=0.007.