Public clinic Afghanistan - National Risk and Vulnerability Survey 2011-2012, Living Conditions Survey NRVA 2011 12 report

87 HEALTH Table 9.4: In-patients A and out-patients B in the year before the survey, by sex, and by age A. In-patients

a. In thousands b. In percentages

Age Male Female Total Age Male Female Total 0-9 123 99 221 0-9 32.5 17.7 23.7 10-19 56 63 120 10-19 14.9 11.4 12.8 20-29 35 126 161 20-29 9.2 22.7 17.2 30-39 33 89 122 30-39 8.8 16.0 13.1 40-49 29 67 96 40-49 7.7 12.0 10.3 50-59 31 64 95 50-59 8.1 11.5 10.1 60-69 37 33 70 60-69 9.8 5.9 7.5 70-79 23 13 37 70-79 6.2 2.4 3.9 80-89 9 3 12 80-89 2.4 0.5 1.2 90+ 1 1 90+ 0.3 0.0 0.1 Total 378 558 935 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 B. Out-patients a. In thousands b. In percentages Age Male Female Total Age Male Female Total 0-9 557 477 1,033 0-9 47.8 30.3 37.8 10-19 149 193 342 10-19 12.8 12.3 12.5 20-29 103 270 372 20-29 8.8 17.1 13.6 30-39 72 214 286 30-39 6.2 13.6 10.5 40-49 70 166 236 40-49 6.0 10.6 8.6 50-59 77 158 235 50-59 6.6 10.1 8.6 60-69 80 67 147 60-69 6.8 4.3 5.4 70-79 35 22 57 70-79 3.0 1.4 2.1 80-89 17 5 22 80-89 1.4 0.3 0.8 90+ 5 1 6 90+ 0.4 0.0 0.2 Total 1,163 1,573 2,736 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0

9.2.3 Visits to health care facilities

NRVA 2011-12 inquired into occurrence of visits to health care facilities in the year preceding the interview. The results show that from more than 800 thousand households one or more members have been admitted to stay overnight in a health facility. In total this referred to 935 thousand different in-patients, 60 percent of whom were women or girls. As can be seen from Table 9.4, the concentration of female in-patients is in the reproductive ages and is closely related to ante-natal-, delivery- and post-delivery care. Half 51 percent of all female patients who stayed overnight in a health facility is in the age bracket 15-49, whereas only a quarter 26 percent of the male in-patients belongs to this age group. In absolute numbers the igures of in-patients decline with age, due to the typical pyramid shape of the population with relatively small numbers of elderly and large numbers of children. However, calculating the number per age group as a percentage of the total population, the incidence of hospitalisation clearly concentrates in the old age groups Figure 9.1, panel A. This is the expected pattern, as health problems tend to increase with age, with the exception of the immediate years after birth. However, the pattern for women is strongly inluenced by visits for maternity reasons as can be seen in the sharp increase of the female prevalence at age group 20-29.