Table 4 Dissaving mechanisms and social consequences for sample participants
From: Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers
Expenditure Quintilesa | Treatment Group | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poorest | Less Poor | Average | Less Wealthy | Wealthiest | Overall | DS | MDR | |
(N = 219) | (N = 229) | (N = 218) | (N = 274) | (N = 215) | (N = 1178) | (N = 1134) | (N = 44) | |
Dissaving Strategies | ||||||||
Loan | 22.8% | 29.1% | 27.6% | 27% | 25.6% | 26.3% | 25.9% | 35.5% |
Use of savings | 6% | 8.6% | 12% | 14.1% | 14.9% | 11.2% | 10% | 39.9% |
Sale of assets | 29.4% | 27.6% | 30.1% | 25.1% | 22% | 26.5% | 25.4% | 54.4% |
Any of the three above | 45.5% | 48.6% | 54.3% | 48.2% | 47.6% | 48.5% | 47.2% | 81.2% |
Food insecurity | 60.9% | 48.6% | 49.7% | 50% | 43.2% | 49.7% | 49.3% | 59.7% |
Divorce/separated from spouse/partner | 8.7% | 6.6% | 10.5% | 5.3% | 9.2% | 8% | 7.8% | 10.6% |
Loss of Job | 45.1% | 44.3% | 40.2% | 34% | 40.9% | 40.5% | 39.9% | 56% |
Child interrupted schooling | 8.7% | 10.7% | 11% | 11.6% | 15.4% | 11.8% | 11.9% | 11.5% |
Social exclusion | 60% | 55.3% | 51.4% | 53.3% | 50.8% | 53.7% | 54% | 46.1% |
Any days of work lost | 16% | 9.2% | 4% | 2.4% | 5.7% | 7.2% | 4.4% | 2.6% |
Household received social protection after TB diagnosis | 3.2% | 2.9% | 5.1% | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3.9% | 1.8% | 56.4% |