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Table 5 Poverty head count before and after OOP payments

From: Assessing the impoverishing effects, and factors associated with the incidence of catastrophic health care payments in Kenya

 

Gross of total (health + transport) payments

Net of health payments

Net of transport payments

Net of (health and transport) payments

Poverty headcount

66.60% (64.95–68. 26%)

67.78% (66.15–69. 41%)

67.02% (65.37–68.67%)

68.21% (66.58–69.84%)

Poverty gap

16,245.71 (15,528.48–16,962.94)

16,989.57 (16,263.97–17,715.16)

16,465.69 (15,745.25–17,186.13)

17,239.39 (16,510.55–17,968.23)

Normalized poverty gap

30.26% (29.10–31.41%)

31.65% (30.50–32.81%)

30.72% (29.56–31.89%)

32.19% (31.02–33.36%)

Mean positive poverty gap

24391.74 (23656.09–25127.39)

25066.82 (24324.57–25809.07)

24568.1 (23833.54–25302.67)

25275.11 (24536.74–26013.47)

Normalized mean positive poverty gap

45.43% (44.55–46.30%)

46.70% (45.84–47.57%)

45.84% (44.96–46.71%)

47.19% (46.32–48.06%)