Role of the new rural cooperative medical system in alleviating catastrophic medical payments for hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease in poor rural areas of China

Table 2 Household health expenditures among the families of the subjects

Diseases	Family type^△	N^*/ Fa-N^†	HE_HypD ^‡(RMB/$)	HE_T ^§(RMB/$)	HE_HypD/HE_T(%)	IHE_HypD ^\|\|(RMB/$)
Hypertension	Non-poor	591/558	341356/54651	2175912/348364	15.7	577.6/92.5
	Poor	409/389	238729/38221	966567/154747	24.7	583.7/93.5
	Total	1000/947	580085/92872	3142479/503111	18.5	580.1/92.9
Stroke	Non-poor	62/60	198754/31821	398600/63816	49.9	3205.7/513.2
	Poor	50/50	140422/22482	214890/34404	65.4	2808.4/449.6
	Total	112/110	339176/54302	613490/98220	55.3	3028.4/484.8
CHD	Non-poor	73/73	145399/23278	340310/54484	42.7	1991.8/318.9
	Poor	77/76	88812/14219	281700/45100	31.5	1153.4/184.7
	Total	150/149	234211/37497	622010/99584	37.6	1561.4/250.0
Total	Non-poor	724/684	685509/109750	2914822/466663	23.5	946.8/151.6
	Poor	536/502	467963/74921	1463157/238494	32.0	873.1/139.8
	Total	1262/1176	1153472/184671	4377979/713610	23.6	914.0/146.3

^△A non-poor family type has an annual income of RMB1300/$208.1 per capita or above; a poor family type has an annual income of less than RMB1300/ $208.1 per capita.
^*N indicates the number of subjects studied.
^†Fa-N indicates the number of families of the subjects.
^‡HE_HypD indicates the household expenditure related to hypertension, stroke and CHD among the studied families in the past year (2008).
^§HE_T indicates the total household health expenditures of the studied families in the past year (2008).
^||IHE_HypD indicates individual health expenditures related to hypertension, stroke and CHD in the past year (2008).

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