Costs of screening children for hearing disorders and delivery of hearing aids in China

Table 2 Cost of school-based screening

	Beijing		Nanning		Guigang
Health care costs	RMB	US$	RMB	US$	RMB	US$
Cost per child fitted with hearing aid
Average fixed costs (a)*	667	87	496	64	635	82
Average variable costs (b)**	1,694	220	1,482	192	973	126
Average total health care costs (c = a+b)	2,361	306	1,978	257	1,608	209
Number of children fitted with hearing aid (d)	37		67		44
Total health care costs (e = c*d)	87,351	11,330	132,530	17.189	70,771	9,179
Household costs
Cost per child fitted with hearing aid (f)	451	59	154	20	145	19
Number of children fitted with hearing aid (d)	37		67		44
Total household costs (g = f*d)	16,703	2,166	10,308	1.337	6,371	826
Cost per child fitted with hearing aids
Health care perspective (j = e/d)	2.361	306	1.978	257	1.608	209
Societal perspective (k = (e+g)/d)	2.812	365	2.132	277	1.753	227

* Calculated as (A+C/number of children fitted), with A and C referring to cost categories in Table 2.
** Calculated as (B1+B2+B3), with B1, B2 and B3 referring to cost categories in Table 2.

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