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Table 2 Summary statistics of the catastrophic health expenditure, coverage of essential health services, burden of disease, and covariates across all countries

From: Association between universal health coverage and the disease burden of acute illness and injury at the global level

 

All

High-income

Upper middle-income

Lower middle-income

Low-income

 

Median (Q1, Q3)

Catastrophic Health Expenditure %b

6.75 [3.30—12.82]

6.04 [3.27—11.78]

8.07 [3.12—13.64]

7.76 [3.79—13.39]

6.63 [3.22—10.65]

Universal Health Coverage Service Coverage Index %b

67.5 [49.5—75.5]

79.00 [74.5—82.5]

69.00 [63.5—75.00]

54.00 [46.50—65.50]

39.00 [35.75—43.75]

GDP per capita (USD)

10,250 [ 3,347—22,590]

36,883 [27,888—46,534]

12,829 [10,130—15,131]

4,250 [2,784—6,421]

1,493 [1,076—1,815]

Physicians per 1,000a

1.23 [0.26—2.51]

2.86 [2.22—3.64]

1.76 [0.75—2.45]

0.37 [0.17—0.79]

0.08 [0.04—3.02]

Hospital beds per 1,000a

2.32 [1.15—3.86]

3.58 [2.71—5.83]

3.00 [1.94—4.03]

1.45 [0.90—2.26]

0.83 [0.50—1.12]

Population aged 65 and older %a

5.54 [3.29—12.27]

15.04[10.51—18.04]

7.23 [5.39—10.52]

4.14 [3.15—5.14]

2.76 [2.58—3.02]

DALYs per 100,000 popc

398.45 [274.97—611.67]

219.82 [191.82—303.34]

349.29 [278.62—496.47]

536.35 [409.54—688.23]

901.71 [714.11—1,230.07]

  1. Abbreviations: GDP Gross domestic product, DALYs Disability adjusted life years
  2. aThe value for the year of exposure is used
  3. bCorresponds to the value of the year with the most recent information up to the year 2015
  4. cAverage value of the outcome of the 5 years following the year of exposure