Data gleaned from the various NHA surveys were used to estimate household expenditures. A household survey was not conducted for this NHA exercise and, despite several requests to contacts at the Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS), that survey was not available to the NHA team. 1 Table 2 shows the distribution of household out-of-pocket payment directly made to public and private providers. Households made percent of health expenditures at public providers, percent at private providers, and percent at pharmacies. The highest proportion of spending at private providers (60 percent) occurred at traditional healers. The high proportion.
