Replication Data for: Equity in public healthcare spending and out-of-pocket payments for pneumonia, diarrhea and measles in Uganda

Background: The government’s response to infectious and potentially vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) considers equitable access to prevention and care as one of its fundamental tenets, notably through vaccination campaigns and integrated community case management (ICCM). Aim: Assess how the public healthcare benefits and out-of-pocket costs of VPD are distributed by SES in the Ugandan population. Examine differences between routine integrated care provided for pneumonia and diarrhea and outbreak response for measles. Methods: We assessed equity based on four outcomes, including one benefit and three costs to users: public health expenditure (PHE), households’ out-of-pocket payments (OOP), time spent, and distance traveled to receive treatment. A benefit-incidence analysis and an explanatory multivariate regression were conducted for each outcome to assess the distributional equity. Catastrophic health expenditures were also calculated to assess the relative cost of care. Data were collected in Gulu, Jinja, Mbarara, and Wakiso districts in 48 public and private healthcare facilities. Socioeconomic status data were matched with nationally representative data from the Uganda National Panel Survey 2015-16.