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Table 4 Household curative expenditures per year by providers and expenditure quintiles in Vietnamese dong (%)

From: Choice of healthcare provider following reform in Vietnam

 

Equalized household expenditure quintiles

Total

p-value

 

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Self-treatment

44,930(17.3)

54,707(14.5)

71,020(14.1)

68,341(13.6)

62,575(8.7)

60,332(12.8)

**

Provider(Public+private)

714,930(82.7)

322,547(85.5)

432,668(35.9)

434,280(86,4)

658,559(91.3)

412,615(87.2)

**

Private providers

155,922(60.0)

214,627(56.9)

292,527(58.1)

326,895(65.0)

426,687(59.2)

283,346(59.9)

 

   Traditional healer

19,962(7.7)

21,626(5.7)

45,266(9.0)

53,294(10.6)

40,181(5.6)

36,081(7.6)

**

   Private healthcare

135,960(52.3)

193,001(51.2)

247,261(49.1)

273,602(54.4)

386,506(53.6)

247,266(52.3)

 

Public providers

58,938(22.7)

107,920(28.6)

140,141(27.8)

107,385(21.4)

231,872(32.2)

129,269(27.3)

**

   Commune health station

16,360(6.3)

19,848(5.3)

46,813(9.3)

19,328(3.8)

15,961(2.2)

23,699(5.0)

**

   District health centre

17,034(6.6)

65,697(17.4)

52,600(10.4)

38,198(7.6)

54,522(7.6)

45,621(9.6)

**

   Province/central hosp ital

25,544(9.8)

22,375(5.9)

40,728(8.1)

49,859(9.9)

161,389(22.4)

59,948(12.7)

***

Total curative

259,790(100)

377,255(100)

503,689(100)

502,622(100)

721,134(100)

472,947(100)

 
  1. HH is the abbreviation of household; p-value for the comparison between the lowest and highest quintile groups; *** denotes significant at the 1% level; **denotes significant at 5% level. Percentage shares are shown within brackets.