Table 1 Impoverishing impact of OOP healthcare payments in Ghana, 2005/2006*
Poverty line-$1.25/day | Poverty line-$2.50/day | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | Gross of health payment | Net of health payment | Absolute | Relative | Gross of health payment | Net of health payment | Absolute | Relative |
Poverty headcount | 17.04% | 18.64% | 1.59% | 9.35% | 48.02% | 49.85% | 1.83% | 3.82% |
Standard error | 0.00944 | 0.00998 | 0.00194 | 0.01324 | 0.01323 | 0.00182 | ||
Poverty gap | 90925.73 | 129776.3 | 38850.56 | 42.73% | 651869.7 | 720124.1 | 68254.3 | 10.47% |
Standard error | 6223.579 | 13588.53 | 11871.4 | 24709.07 | 28546.66 | 12477.93 | ||
Normalized poverty gap | 5.36% | 7.65% | 2.29% | 42.73% | 19.20% | 21.21% | 2.01% | 10.47% |
Standard error | 0.00367 | 0.00800 | 0.00699 | 0.00728 | 0.00841 | 0.00368 | ||
Normalized mean poverty gap | 31.43% | 41.02% | 9.59% | 30.52% | 39.99% | 42.55% | 2.56% | 6.41% |
Standard error | 0.01169 | 0.03840 | – | 0.00757 | 0.01031 | – | ||