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Table 3 Urban-rural disparities of the prevalence of catastrophic health expenditure through income quintile (N = 792)

From: Catastrophic health expenditure of cancer patients at the end-of-life: a retrospective observational study in China

Variable

Rural (n = 597)

Urban (n = 195)

p value*

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

total

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

total

OOP payments share in total health expenditure (%)

68.09

68.82

62.27

54.75

56.94

60.72

53.21

43.33

42.74

49.13

42.48

46.39

0.000

OOP payments share in household income (%)

3635.62

1500.00

1069.38

513.19

214.20

513.41

2423.21

614.95

356.78

248.08

102.25

273.92

0.000

Households with catastrophic health expenditure (%)

100

100

98.40

94.60

87.20

96.10

100

100

100

95.50

73.50

94.30

0.285

  1. aQ1 is the poorest and Q5 is the wealthiest
  2. *p-value from Chi-squared test