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Table 10 Health service unit costs in neighbouring countries (US$ adjusted to 2016 values)

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

Country

Year of data

Cost per inpatient-day

Cost per outpatient consultation

Cambodia

2016

Primary hospital: 41.74a

Secondary hospital: 38.21

Primary hospital: 7.76a

Secondary hospital: 41.53

Health centre: 3.00

Lao PDR*

2005

Primary hospital: 25.07

Secondary hospital: 32.70

Tertiary hospital: 44.66

Primary hospital: 6.80

Secondary hospital: 10.07

Tertiary hospital: 14.91

Health centre: 9.96

Thailand*

2017

Primary hospital: 75.84

Secondary hospital: 98.95

Tertiary hospital: 135.15

Primary hospital: 19.25

Secondary hospital: 27.30

Tertiary hospital: 40.38

Health centre: 14.88

Vietnam*

2005

Primary hospital: 37.47

Secondary hospital: 48.88

Tertiary hospital: 65.51

Primary hospital: 11.37

Secondary hospital: 16.13

Tertiary hospital: 23.87

Health centre: 11.65

  1. *source: World Health Organization. CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective. 2017; http://www.who.int/choice/cost-effectiveness/en/ ; aunweighted average CPA1 and CPA2 hospitals