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Table 1 Direct and indirect cost of ARI

From: The respiratory health of urban indigenous children aged less than 5 years: study protocol for a prospective cohort study

Family

Employers/Community

Healthcare Service

Medication usage

Time spent seeking healthcare

Medication usage

- includes over-the-counter and prescribed medications

- Time off work with pay

- includes over-the-counter and prescribed medications

- Time off work with pay lost

- Time off usual activity

Healthcare seeking travel costs

Extra time spent caring for child

Healthcare service utilisation

- includes ambulance and community transport services

- Time off work with pay

- diagnostic tests and complementary/alternative therapies

- Time off work with pay lost

- distinguishes between public and private, paid and bulk billed services

- Time off usual activity

Time spent seeking healthcare

Healthcare seeking travel costs

Healthcare seeking travel costs

- Time off work with pay

- includes ambulance and community transport services

- includes ambulance and community transport services

- Time off work with pay lost

- Time off usual activity

Extra time spent caring for child

  

- Time off work with pay

- Time off work with pay lost

- Time off usual activity

Missed childcare/school

  

Missed planned activities

  

- child and others