Table 3.

Recent illness, health service use, and concentration indices^a for HWS 2001 and 2005.

Sources: Health and Welfare Surveys 2001 and 2005.

	Frequency (%)		Age–sex adjusted concentration indices (C*)		Normalisedbconcentration indices (%)
2001	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural
2001
N	63,887	104,254
Recent illness (2 weeks)	13.4	16.0
No service used	7.6	9.8	−0.057	−0.054	−6.2	−6.0
Pharmacies	29.8	22.3	0.017	0.045	2.4	5.8
Health centres	4.7	20.0	−0.192	−0.090	−20.1	−11.3
Community hospitals	8.2	16.5	−0.319	−0.080	−34.7	−9.6
Regional/provincial/general hospitals	26.8	20.1	−0.016	0.056	−2.2	7.0
Private clinics	13.4	9.1	0.070	0.083	8.1	9.1
Private hospitals	9.5	2.1	0.306	0.364	33.8	37.2
Total	100.0	100.0
2005
N	21,015	30,996
Recent illness (1 month)	14.7	21.2
No service used	9.0	9.9	−0.083	−0.042	−9.1	−4.7
Pharmacies	28.9	19.8	0.037	0.028	5.2	3.5
Health centres	4.5	22.6	−0.301	−0.123	−31.5	−15.9
Community hospitals	10.7	21.8	−0.297	−0.065	−33.3	−8.3
Regional/provincial/general hospitals	19.8	9.5	0.039	0.125	4.9	13.8
Private clinics	14.7	14.2	0.054	0.124	6.3	14.5
Private hospitals	12.5	2.3	0.210	0.474	24.0	48.5
Total	100.0	100.0

^aThe concentration index is negative (or positive) when the health outcome is concentrated towards the lower (or higher) end of the socioeconomic scale. The larger its absolute value (maximum=1.0), the more pronounced the inequality is. Normalised results are presented as percentages of limiting values for each concentration index.

^bPossible values range from −100 to +100.