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Table 1 Persons suffering from illness and the number of illness episodes during the year.

From: Household out-of-pocket payments for illness: Evidence from Vietnam

 

Household total expenditure quintiles

Total

 

1 (bottom)

2

3

4

5 (top)

 

Number of persons

377

576

567

600

607

2727

Number of household members

3.0

4.7

4.6

4.8

4.9

4.4

Percent of persons suffering from at least one episode of illness

93.6%

92.2%

93.3%

92.5%

93.3%

92.9%

Total number of illness episodes

1 303

1 749

1 668

1 929

1 731

8 380

Episodes of illness per person having suffered at least one episode of illness

3.7

3.3

3.2

3.5

3.1

3.3

Percent of illness episodes where no drugs or services were used

4.5%

3.5%

3.0%

2.7%

1.9%

3.0%