Using a community-based definition of poverty for targeting poor households for premium subsidies in the context of a community health insurance in Burkina Faso

Table 2 Relative poverty criteria for each poverty group

Poverty groups	Very poor	Poor	Intermediate	Wealthy
Criteria
Has insufficient food	++	+
Has nothing	++	+
Is not in good health status preventing to work	++	+
Is unable to solve his own problem by himself	++	+
Has no money	++	+
Is unable fill his medical prescriptions	++	+
Has no social network	++	+
Is not owner of livestock	++	+
Wear poor clothes and live in poor conditions	++	+
Is very old and without support	++	+
Has no poultry	++	+
Has enough food			+	++
Can do or get anything			+	++
Is in good health status			+	++
Is able to solve his own problem and help somebody else			+	++
Has enough money			+	++
Is owner of livestock			+	++
Has nice clothes and good living conditions			+	++
Can use health services			+	++

+: The cross indicates that a link exists between the criterion and the poverty group.
++: The two crosses indicate that a strong link exists between the criterion and the poverty group.
The shaded area: indicates that the criterion is not related to the poverty group.

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