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Table 6 Reported weekly earnings and health expenditure of 10 cases and controls over a 3 week period

From: Measuring the physical and economic impact of filarial lymphoedema in Chikwawa district, Malawi: a case-control study

 

Cases

Controls

 

Median

Range

Median

Range

Median weekly earnings (MK)

527

261–1 046

1 393

451–3 582

Median weekly health expenditure (MK)

147

0–404

278

9–1 578

% weekly earnings spent on health

16

0–41

22

2–68