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Table 3 Incidence and Intensity of Catastrophic Health Payments in Malawi

From: Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi

Catastrophic payments measures

Threshold budget share, z

OOP health spending as share of non-food expenditure

10%

20%

30%

40%

 Head Count (H)

9.37%

3.41%

1.61%

0.73%

 Standard Error

0.26%

0.16%

0.11%

0.08%

 Overshoot (O)

1.01%

0.43%

0.20%

0.08%

 Standard Error

0.04%

0.03%

0.02%

0.01%

 Mean Positive Gap (MPG)

10.76%

12.64%

12.15%

11.63%

  1. Source: Author based on NSO (2011) [24] data