Table 2.
Incidence and extent of OOP payments according to type and levels of healthcare services
|
Income per capita |
Incidence of OOP payments (Ailment as unit)* (95%CI) |
Median share of household income spent as OOP (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Government**(n=742) |
Private**(n=3040) |
Government |
Private |
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| Clinics/ Health centres (n=186) | Referral hospital (n=171) | Super-specialty hospital (n=385) | Clinics/ Health centres (n=1435) | Referral hospital (n=1295) | Super-specialty hospital (n=310) | |||
| 1st quintile |
56.9 (44.6, 69.3) |
72.4 (55.1, 89.7) |
77.8 (70.1, 85.4) |
68.8 (63.2, 74.5) |
69.2 (62.5, 76.0) |
75.0 (64.4, 85.6) |
4.0 |
5.9 |
| 2nd quintile |
54.5 (39.2, 69.9) |
78.9 (58.8, 99.1) |
79.4 (69.6, 89.3) |
61.5 (56.2, 66.9) |
72.3 (66.3, 78.2) |
78.6 (65.6, 91.5) |
2.5 |
3.9 |
| 3rd quintile |
60.7 (41.4, 80.0) |
62.2 (45.8, 78.6) |
81.3 (72.5, 90.0) |
68.8 (63.6, 74.1) |
66.5 (60.5, 72.6) |
62.7 (50.0, 75.4) |
2.4 |
2.9 |
| 4th quintile |
81.8 (64.3, 99.3) |
75.9 (59.3, 92.4) |
86.4 (75.8, 96.9) |
70.4 (64.2, 76.5) |
70.3 (64.5, 76.1) |
72.7 (60.6, 84.9) |
2.0 |
3.1 |
| 5th quintile | 76.6 (56.3, 96.1) | 50.0 (36.2, 63.8) | 79.9 (69.1, 90.2) | 71.8 (66.6, 77.0) | 73.8 (69.3, 78.2) | 69.2 (58.8, 79.7) | 1.3 | 2.4 |
*We used ailment as a unit of analysis instead of households. This is because individuals from a single household might seek care from different type (and levels) of health services making it impossible to do segregated analysis as presented in this table. **Number of ailments treated in government and private sector does not add up to the total (i.e. 3902) because, in 120 ailment instances, individuals either used self-medication or did not seek care.