Household costs of dengue illness: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico

Table 2 Household costs for treatment of hospitalized dengue cases reported by 12,312 households in 2009–2010 baseline survey

	Reported expenditure by household (USD)				Work or school days lost
Where treated	No. cases spending anything	Reported expenditure per case (USD)			No. cases with any days lost	Reported days lost per case
		Mean^a	SD	Total		Mean^b	SD	Total
IMSS	70	84	132.4	5889	70	14.6	8.0	1022
SSA	50	94	114.6	4700	52	15.0	9.3	780
ISSSTE	15	69	77.2	1035	16	17.3	9.3	277
SEDENA	10	28	46.5	280	10	9.6	8.6	96
Private hospital	55	392^c	692.6	90,860	55	16.8	9.6	924
Total	200	514		102,802	203	15.4		3099

IMSS Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social; SSA Secretaría de Salud; ISSSTE Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado; SEDENA Secretaría de Defensa Nacional;
SD standard deviation
^aKruskal-Wallis H 52.7, df 5, p < 0.000001 for difference between groups
^bKruskal-Wallis H 8.5, df 5, p = 0.13 for difference between groups
^cThis includes the costs of consultation, medicines and transport as reported by respondents, but excludes other costs associated with private hospitalization such as investigations, special procedures, and bed-day charges.

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