Literal question
In the past 4 weeks how much did you spend on all these visits for diagnosis and treatment of illness or injury at a private health care facility including the cost to buy medicine. Exclude transportation, lodging and caretaking costs.
thousand dong
Interviewer instructions
questions refer to all expenditure for health care facilities and
practitioners, official or unofficial, for consultations and treatments of diseases or injuries in the
last 4 weeks. Therefore, this question does not include indirect expenditures for health facilities
such as: travelling, lodging, caring for patients. Expenditure for drug purchases including drugs
prescribed by health facilities or practitioners, regardless of whether drugs were bought at that
center or elsewhere