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Table 3 Household-level direct treatment costs for seeking care from community medicine distributors

From: Household health care-seeking costs: experiences from a randomized, controlled trial of community-based malaria and pneumonia treatment among under-fives in eastern Uganda

Variable

Rural (n = 304)

Urban (n = 166)

Overall (n = 470)

p-value

 

Mean

Median

SD

Mean

Median

SD

Mean

Median

SD

 

Total cost (UGX)

119.4

0

593.9

392.8

62.5

1,427.0

216.0

0

980.5

0.008

Total cost (USD)

0.05

0

0.25

0.16

0.03

0.59

0.09

0

0.41

  1. Source: Authors’ computations using field survey data (Exchange rate: US$1 = UGX2,400/=)