Benefits and burdens of limiting treatment to protect against financial risk
| Benefits | Burden | |
| The ill newborn | No direct benefit | The chance of survival decreases, and the newborn is likely to die |
| The parents | Avoid selling their harvest/seeds Avoid risk of catastrophic health expenditures More resources for food and other necessities | Emotional burden of losing a baby Future productive loss of losing a child Immediate funeral costs, etc. Long-term lost income if the child lived |
| The other children | More resources for other children: improved nourishment, opportunity to go to school, improved health | Emotional and productive burden of losing a sibling |
| The health worker | Protecting the family against high costs and financial risk | Moral distress of not providing treatment to the ill newborn Professional stress when not following medical guidelines |
| Other ill newborns | Indirect: More physcial room and public resources for other ill newborns in the hospital | Indirect: Shape perceptions and practices of (not) seeking treatment for ill newborns |
| Community members | Friends and neighbours have to lend money to family with ill newborn | Loss of a new child Fear that high costs of treatment might delay care-seeking for others |
| Society | Avoid further poverty | Loss of one citizen |
| Policy-makers | Less families experiencing high OOP payments Success in financial risk protection outcomes | Higher newborn mortality rate Lack of success in newborn mortality |
| International stakeholders | Less poverty cases due to high OOP payments Success in financial risk protection outcomes | Higher newborn mortality rate Lack of success of newborn health programmes or funding |
OOP, out of pocket.