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Table 2 Brest cancer out-of-pocket, catastrophic, and impoverishment health expenditures by SES quintiles (Monthly data-$US)

From: Incidence of household catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures among patients with Breast Cancer in Iran

Expenditure indexes Percent of households with CHE at different threshold OOP expenditures
(SD)
Percent of impoverished households
40% 20% 10%
SES Quintiles Q1 (poorest) 22.22 33.33 44.44 69.97 (66.95) 18.52
Q2 11.11 18.52 29.63 68.70 (53.51) 0.00
Q3 11.11 25.93 33.33 82.33 (63.18) 3.70
Q4 14.29 28.57 53.57 128.22 (119.52) 3.57
Q5 (richest) 10.34 31.03 41.38 140.83 (98.94) 0.00
All households 13.77 27.54 40.58 97.87 (89.30) 5.07
Q1:Q5 ratio 1.61 1.21 1.10 0.50 3.65b
Chi square for trend (P-value) 2.24 (0.69) 1.78 (0.78) 4.07 (0.40) 4.81 (0.001)a 13.37 (0.01)
  1. aOne-way ANOVA test is used
  2. bis the result of first quintile by the average value
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