Table 1.
The use of providers for the episodes of illness (%)
| Equalized household expenditure quintiles | Total | p-value | |||||
| Poorest | 2 | 3 | 4 | Richest | |||
| No drug or service used | 76(5.0) | 53(3.3) | 53(2.9) | 56(3.1) | 17(1.0) | 255(3.0) | ** |
| Self treatment | 470(31.0) | 435(27.2) | 480(26.7) | 283(15.7) | 242(14.5) | 1910(22.8) | ** |
| Private providers | 776(51.1) | 887(55.5) | 1060(58.9) | 1170(65.1) | 1105(66.4) | 4998(59.6) | |
| Traditional healer | 63(4.2) | 54(3.4) | 107(5.9) | 172(9.6) | 190(11.4) | 586(7.0) | ** |
| Privatehealth care | 713(47.0) | 833(52.1) | 953(52.9) | 998(55.5) | 915(55.0) | 4412(52.6) | |
| Public providers | 129(8.5) | 128(8.0) | 136(7.6) | 220(12.2) | 225(13.5) | 838(10.0) | |
| Commune health station | 62(4.1) | 56(3.5) | 71(3.9) | 66(3.7) | 51(3.1) | 306(3.7) | ** |
| District health centre | 47(3.1) | 55(3.4) | 35(1.9) | 98(5.5) | 119(7.2) | 354(4.2) | ** |
| Province/central hospital | 20(1.3) | 17(1.1) | 30(1.7) | 56(3.1) | 55(3.3) | 178(2.1) | ** |
| Mixed all | 67(4.4) | 96(6.0) | 72(4.0) | 69(3.8) | 75(4.5) | 379(4.5) | |
| Total number of episodes | 1518(100) | 1599(100) | 1801(100) | 1798(100) | 1664(100) | 8380(100) | |
| Perceived seriousness of illness | |||||||
| Can work | 495(32.6) | 569(35.6) | 662(36.8) | 702(39.0) | 652(39.2) | 3080(36.8) | |
| Missed work | 420(27.7) | 532(33.3) | 635(35.3) | 654(36.4) | 613(36.8) | 2854(34.1) | ** |
| Confine to bed | 603(39.7) | 498(31.1) | 504(28.0) | 442(24.6) | 399(24.0) | 2446(29.2) | *** |
| Total number of episodes | 1518(100) | 1599(100) | 1801(100) | 1798(100) | 1664(100) | 8380(100) | |
| Total number of persons | 479(100) | 558(100) | 577(100) | 558(100) | 555(100) | 2727(100) | |
HH is the abbreviation of household; p-value for the comparison between the lowest and highest quintile groups; *** denotes significant at the 1% level; **denotes significant at 5% level. Percentage shares are shown within brackets.