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Table 1 Expenditure and sources of money for treatment of children with DF

From: Poverty, user fees and ability to pay for health care for children with suspected dengue in rural Cambodia

Place of health facilities

Expenditure

Period of illness

Sources of money

Public facilities

   

Referral Hospital

US$25

1 episode

Savings, loan from mother

Combined private and public facility

   

Local private practice, referral hospital

US$150

1 episode

Sale of rice

Local private practice, referral hospital

US$62.50

1 episode

Loan,* sold farm land

Local drugs, HC, referral hospital

US$37.50

1 episode

Pawn farm land for 3 years

Local drugs, referral hospital

US$37.50

1 episode

Not specified

Local private practice, referral hospital

US$31.25

1 episode

Loan

Local drugs, referral hospital

US$25

1 episode

Loan, sale of a pig fee-exemption

Local private practice, referral hospital

US$3.75

1 episode

Fee-exemption

Private Practices

   

Local drugs, private practice, blood test

US$100

2 sons, 2 episodes

Sale of farm land

Local drugs, local private practice

US$50

1 episode

Sale and loan*

Local drugs, private practices in the village and in KPC

US$50

1 episode

Not specified

Local drugs, private practice

US$45

2 sons, 2 episodes

Sale of an ox

Local drugs and private practice in KPC

USS37.50

1 episode

Sale of a pig

Local drugs, private practice, blood test

US$37.50

1 episode

Not specified

Local drugs, private practice, blood test

US$36.25

1 episode

Loan from mother

Local drugs, local private practice

US$25

1 episode

Loan

Local drugs, local private practice

US$25

1 episode

Sale of an ox

Local drugs, local private practice

US$ 8.75

1 episode

Savings, loan from mother

  1. * Loan for more than a year, the exchange rate was 4000 riels = USD 1 at the time of the study in 2003.