Fig. 3

Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) rates associated with “other” versus standardized prevalence. Catastrophic health expenditure rates in 39 countries among households with a respondent that used health care in the last 30 days in the World Health Survey. Noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevalence without selected diseases and communicable prevalence without selected diseases capture disease prevalence omitting the NCDs and communicable causes captured in the other disease-specific catastrophic health expenditure estimates. The full list of causes included in each category can be found in Additional file 1