Skip to main content

Table 4 Descriptive statistics about costs

From: Protocol for the economic evaluation of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration salt therapy at scale through private and public providers in rural Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India

 

Costs according to source of care and components according to outpatient, inpatient, and home care

Costs according to source of care

 

Public source—facility care

PHC, government hospital, government dispensary

Auxiliary nurse midwife, sub-center

Public source—community care

Anganwadi worker/center

 

ASHA

Private source

Private doctor

 

Nursing home/private hospital

 

Mobile clinic

 

Chemist

 

Traditional healer

 

Charitable hospital, NGO, trust

Cost components according to outpatient, inpatient, and home care

 

Direct medical

Consultation

 

Dispensing

 

Purchase of zinc (tablets or syrup)

 

Purchase of ORS (packets)

 

Purchase of other drugs

 

Special food purchased

 

Admission/hospitalization

 

Other costs

Direct nonmedical

Transportation (round trip)

Indirect costs

Wages lost

  1. ASHA: Accredited Social Health Activist; NGO: Non-governmental organization; ORS: Oral rehydration salts; PHC: Primary health center.