Research Article
Gaps in Capacity in Primary Care in Low-Resource Settings for Implementation of Essential Noncommunicable Disease Interventions
Table 1
Characteristics of surveyed countries and primary care facilities, 2009/2011.
| | Characteristics of primary care facilities | Participating countries | Benin
() | Eritrea
() | Sudan
() | Syria
() | Bhutan
() | Sri Lanka
() | Vietnam
() | Suriname
() |
| | World Bank income class* | Low income | Low income | Lower middle income | Lower middle income | Lower middle income | Lower middle income | Lower middle income | Upper middle income | Population served
mean (SD) | 31333
(11902) | 64667
(29084) | 13083
(13681) | 34157
(12167) | 5071
(886) | 35308
(20010) | 13267
(4131) | 13150
(15965) | Number of patients registered per month mean (SD)
| 398
(256)
| 1190
(466)
| 847
(569)
| 1867
(1060)
| 725
(626)
| 2343
(1388)
| 238
(107)
| 1006
(710)
| | Percentage of NCD patients registered per month | 4% | 11% | 30% | 11% | 11% | 24% | 62% | 69% | | Total expenditure on health as % of gross domestic product** (2008) | 4.1 | 3.1 | 6.9 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | Per capita total expenditure on health
(PPP int. $)** (2008) | 61 | 18 | 147 | 123 | 263 | 187 | 201 | 532 | Per capita government expenditure
on health (PPP int. $)** (2008) | 32 | 8 | 49 | 48 | 217 | 82 | 77 | 258 | | Private expenditure on health as a % of total expenditure on health (2008) | 48.3 | 55.1 | 66.9 | 61.2 | 17.5 | 56.3 | 61.5 | 51.5 | Out-of-pocket expenditure as %
of private expenditure on health (2008) | 99.9 | 100 | 91.9 | 100 | 100 | 83.3 | 91.7 | 44 |
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*The World Bank. Country and Lending Groups by Income, http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups.
**World Health Statistics 2011. Table 7, Health expenditure, http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/2011/en/index.html.
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