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Fig. 3

From: Assessing the burden of medical impoverishment by cause: a systematic breakdown by disease in Ethiopia

Fig. 3

a Number of poverty cases due to direct out-of-pocket (OOP) medical costs by each of 20 leading causes of mortality in Ethiopia, in the base case (orange) and when key inputs (e.g., disease-specific cases, utilization, OOP direct medical costs) were varied across the income distribution (yellow). b Number of poverty cases due to direct OOP medical costs by each of 20 leading causes of mortality in Ethiopia, when key inputs (e.g., disease-specific cases, utilization, OOP direct medical costs) were varied across the income distribution, including the repartition among income quintiles. Lri = lower respiratory infections, Dia = diarrhea, St = stroke, TB = tuberculosis, Ihd = ischemic heart disease, Pr = preterm birth complications, Mal = malaria, Rti = road traffic injuries, Neo = neonatal encephalopathy, Men = meningitis, Wc = whooping cough, Msl = measles, Cir = cirrhosis, DM = diabetes mellitus, Copd = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Cc = cervical cancer, Bc = breast cancer, Ep = epilepsy, Ast = asthma

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