Costing for universal health coverage: insight into essential economic data from three provinces in Cambodia

Health Economics Review

Table 1 Provincial characteristics

	Kampong Thom	Kampot	Kep
Land area^a (km²)	13,814	4873	336
Population^b	690,414	611,557	38,701
Population density (people/km²)	50	125.5	115
City population^c	61,348	60,851	19,573
Number of villages	739	488	18
Number of health centres	53	64	5
Total number of public hospital beds	194	303	13
Hospital beds per 1000 population	0.28	0.50	0.34
Physicians per 1000 population	0.09	0.10	0.72
Distance from Phnom Penh	199 km	152 km	167 km
Poverty rates^d	29.1%	20.4%	16.5%

^ahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Cambodia; ^bNational Institute of Statistics. Cambodia Intercensal Population Survey 2013. 2013. Phnom Penh, Ministry of Planning; ^cUnited Nations Population Fund. Urbanization and its linkage to socio-economic and environmental issues. 2014. Phnom Penh, UNFPA; ^dAsian Development Bank. Cambodia: Country Poverty Analysis 2014. 2014. Manila, Asian Development Bank

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