Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Contracting for health services: effects of utilization and quality on the costs of the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan

Omid Ameli & William Newbrander

Volume 86, Number 12, December 2008, 920-928

Table 1. Mean and median total costs, drug costs and health facility remoteness scores for 21 contracts for the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan, April 2006–March 2007

	Mean	Standard deviation	Median	Range
Annual total cost^a	975 710	469 553	921 147	150 140–2 150 071
Annual cost per visit^a	3.27	1.23	2.99	1.48–5.36
Annual drug cost per visit^a,b	0.3	0.096	0.28	0.14–0.54
Annual cost per capita^a	3.78	1.89	3.19	1.60–10.55
Annual drug cost per capita^a	0.65	0.33	0.57	0.21–1.66
Contract weighted security score (1–4)^c	1.62	0.82	1.23	1.0–3.6
Contract weighted remoteness score (1–5)^d	1.7	0.97	1.49	1.0–5.0

^a Costs in US dollars.
^b Drug costs include pharmaceuticals and contraceptives.
^c 1 represents the most secure district and 4, the least secure.
^d 1 represents the least remote district and 5, the most remote.