Table 1

Expenditure and sources of money for treatment of children with DF
Place of health facilities
 Expenditure
 Period of illness
 Sources of money
Public facilities


Referral Hospital
 US$25
 1 episode
 Savings, loan from mother
Combined private and public facility


Local private practice, referral hospital
 US$150
 1 episode
 Sale of rice
Local private practice, referral hospital
 US$62.50
 1 episode
 Loan,* sold farm land
Local drugs, HC, referral hospital
 US$37.50
 1 episode
 Pawn farm land for 3 years
Local drugs, referral hospital
 US$37.50
 1 episode
 Not specified
Local private practice, referral hospital
 US$31.25
 1 episode
 Loan
Local drugs, referral hospital
 US$25
 1 episode
 Loan, sale of a pig fee-exemption
Local private practice, referral hospital
 US$3.75
 1 episode
 Fee-exemption
Private Practices


Local drugs, private practice, blood test
 US$100
 2 sons, 2 episodes
 Sale of farm land
Local drugs, local private practice
 US$50
 1 episode
 Sale and loan*
Local drugs, private practices in the village and in KPC
 US$50
 1 episode
 Not specified
Local drugs, private practice
 US$45
 2 sons, 2 episodes
 Sale of an ox
Local drugs and private practice in KPC
 USS37.50
 1 episode
 Sale of a pig
Local drugs, private practice, blood test
 US$37.50
 1 episode
 Not specified
Local drugs, private practice, blood test
 US$36.25
 1 episode
 Loan from mother
Local drugs, local private practice
 US$25
 1 episode
 Loan
Local drugs, local private practice
 US$25
 1 episode
 Sale of an ox
Local drugs, local private practice
 US$ 8.75
 1 episode
 Savings, loan from mother

* Loan for more than a year, the exchange rate was 4000 riels = USD 1 at the time of the study in 2003.

Khun and Manderson International Journal for Equity in Health 2008 7:10   doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-10