In terms of health status, CBHI households are less healthy than uninsured households, as shown by the CBHI group's poorer self-rated health, higher prevalence of disability or chronic illness, higher proportion of households who reported difficulty performing activities, and a higher proportion of households in which a household member has deteriorating health.
In persons with long-term illness, the proportion with poor SRH was more than 2-fold higher than among persons without long-term illness/injury.
Studies by several groups conducted in mice and ferrets have shown that M2e-specific antibodies, while they did not prevent infection, restricted subsequent virus replication and reduced illness and proportion of deaths (20– 20).
While most patients recover after a short but often debilitating illness, a proportion progress to severe disease, characterized by endothelial dysfunction and plasma leakage that may result in hypovolemic shock [ 2].
For each type of illness, the proportion of infants in each group having at least one episode during the first year of life was compared using Fisher's exact test.
However, if a pandemic is substantial in terms of the severity of illness and proportion of deaths, resources are likely to be insufficient, and policy makers will have to consider whether such resource gaps can be closed in reality.
Patients with and without proven infection differed significantly in age and severity of illness; the proportion of patients suffering a previous septic episode was not different between the two groups.
For serious illnesses, the proportion of borrowing was as high as 36% [ 5].
Despite these dilution factors, and the focus of this study on only childhood SCD-related illnesses, the proportion of CHE recorded is relatively high compared to 2.9%, 15%, and 15.5% reported for the care of all household illnesses in Uganda, 31 Burkina Faso, 32 and Kenya, 16 respectively.
Introduction: Due to advancements in medical technology and management of illnesses, an increasing proportion of critically ill patients are elderly.
