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Table 4 Health care provider specific incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and distress financing due to out-of-pocket spending on hospitalization in Bangladesh

From: Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh

Diseases/reasons for hospitalization

Catastrophic health expenditure due to hospitalization

n (%)

Distress financing due to hospitalization

n (%)

10% of THCE

25% of NFE

Health care provider

Health care provider

Health care provider

Public

Private

All

Public

Private

All

Public

Private

All

Diarrhea/Dysentery

9 (3.4)

2 (3.0)

11 (3.3)

7 (2.6)

4 (6.0)

11 (3.3)

120 (41.7)

20 (31.7)

140 (39.9)

Fever

11 (8.1)

8 (17.4)

19 (10.4)

15 (11.1)

6 (12.8)

21 (11.5)

73 (51.4)

25 (54.3)

98 (52.1)

Pain

24 (14.5)

23 (29.5)

47 (19.3)

22 (13.5)

16 (19.8)

38 (15.6)

81 (47.4)

66 (67.3)

147 (54.6)

Injury/Accident

72 (29.2)

52 (48.6)

124 (35.0)

57 (23.2)

38 (35.2)

95 (26.8)

158 (60.8)

71 (65.1)

229 (62.1)

Blood pressure

12 (16.0)

7 (20.6)

19 (17.43)

13 (16.9)

6 (18.8)

19 (17.4)

38 (48.7)

18 (56.3)

56 (50.9)

Heart disease

24 (16.7)

44 (53.3)

68 (30.2)

19 (13.4)

29 (34.9)

48 (21.3)

90 (62.1)

59 (72.0)

149 (65.6)

Respiratory Diseases/ Asthma/Bronchitis

25 (17.2)

20 (30.8)

45 (21.4)

18 (12.6)

18 (26.9)

36 (17.1)

87 (59.6)

39 (60.0)

126 (59.7)

Weakness/Dizziness

6 (9.7)

4 (11.4)

10 (10.3)

5 (8.2)

4 (11.1)

9 (9.3)

40 (62.5)

23 (63.9)

63 (63.0)

Pneumonia

6 (6.9)

8 (23.5)

14 (11.2)

8 (8.9)

5 (14.3)

13 (10.4)

49 (51.0)

23 (65.7)

72 (55.0)

Tuberculosis

3 (37.5)

1 (16.7)

4 (28.6)

3 (37.5)

1 (16.7)

4 (28.6)

5 (62.5)

4 (66.7)

9 (64.3)

Malaria

-

-

-

-

-

-

3 (50.0)

2 (66.7)

5 (55.6)

Jaundice

4 (22.2)

2 (18.2)

6 (20.7)

6 (33.3)

-

6 (20.7)

10 (55.6)

4 (36.4)

14 (48.3)

Female diseases

13 (25.5)

50 (54.4)

63 (44.1)

13 (24.5)

41 (45.6)

54 (37.8)

29 (55.8)

70 (76.1)

99 (68.8)

Child delivery and pregnancy-related diseases

27 (20.9)

134 (35.5)

171 (30.8)

28 (15.6)

99 (26.3)

127 (22.9)

106 (62.7)

218 (55.2)

324 (57.4)

Cancer

11 (44.0)

13 (56.5)

24 (50.0)

8 (32.0)

10 (43.5)

18 (37.5)

19 (76.0)

20 (87.0)

39 (81.3)

Mental health

8 (36.4)

3 (50.0)

11 (39.3)

5 (22.7)

2 (33.3)

7 (25.0)

19 (86.4)

5 (83.3)

24 (85.7)

Paralysis

17 (39.5)

10 (52.6)

27 (43.6)

14 (31.8)

7 (38.9)

21 (33.9)

29 (67.4)

14 (73.7)

43 (69.4)

Scabies/Skin diseases

4 (22.2)

4 (44.4)

8 (29.6)

4 (22.2)

2 (22.2)

6 (22.2)

11 (57.9)

5 (55.6)

16 (57.1)

Kidney Diseases

21 (38.2)

20 (34.5)

41 (36.3)

18 (33.3)

17 (28.8)

35 (31.0)

36 (66.7)

37 (62.7)

73 (64.6)

Liver Diseases

19 (54.3)

12 (42.9)

31 (49.2)

18 (51.4)

10 (35.7)

28 (44.4)

25 (71.4)

19 (67.9)

44 (69.8)

Ear/ ENT problems

3 (20.0)

6 (35.3)

9 (28.1)

2 (13.3)

6 (35.3)

8 (25.0)

9 (60.0)

13 (76.5)

22 (68.8)

Eye problem

7 (17.1)

27 (30.7)

34 (26.4)

5 (12.5)

21 (23.6)

26 (20.2)

25 (62.5)

51 (56.7)

76 (58.5)

All diseases

336 (19.0)

451 (36.1)

787 (26.1)

298 (16.9)

349 (28.0)

647 (21.5)

1,062 (56.0)

806 (60.9)

1,868 (58.0)

 Communicable

108 (13.6)

218 (33.6)

326 (22.6)

100 (12.6)

168 (25.9)

268 (18.6)

435 (51.7)

385 (56.7)

820 (53.9)

 Non-communicable

230 (22.9)

231 (37.6)

461 (28.5)

192 (19.1)

178 (28.9)

370 (22.9)

627 (59.4)

421 (65.3)

1,048 (61.6)

  1. Numerator: number of households experienced CHE and distress financing, Denominator: number of households experienced at least one hospitalization for the specific diseases/reasons