Interviewer instructions
14.1 Payments for medical services
- Include: payments made by household members and those made on behalf of persons outside the household in the last 12 months. Include the value of payment in kind in the case of traditional medical practitioners.
- Include: expenditure paid by household members while overseas for medical and health services such as prescription charges, doctors visit charges etc as 'other' costs and note that these were incurred overseas. Note that if these expenses were reimbursed by insurance or another agency do not record the expenditure, unless the expenses were only partially reimbursed in which case record the expense less the reimbursement.
- Do not include: the cost of overseas travel for medical purposes as the expenditure of household members should be included in Question 9 on Overseas Travel.