Table 2.
Estimation results of the mixed logit model.
| VHV | Health center | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEAN | |||||
| Direct cost (Kina; Kina 1 = USD 0.48) | −1.2977*** (0.408) | ||||
| Walking distance (km) | −0.6843*** (0.198) | ||||
| Antimalarial drug availability (no = 0/yes = 1) | 2.0290*** (0.742) | ||||
| Gender of patient (female = 0/male = 1) | −1.0621** (0.514) | −1.8564** (0.862) | |||
| Age of patient (year) | −0.2646 (0.178) | −0.7626** (0.311) | |||
| Illness severity (mild = 0/moderate or severe = 1) | 1.4926** (0.602) | 3.4261*** (1.191) | |||
| Education of caretaker (year) | −0.2177** (0.102) | −0.1925 (0.214) | |||
| Economic status (low = base) | Middle | 0.835 (0.672) | 0.1147 (0.779) | ||
| High | 0.6924 (0.594) | −3.9198 (2.586) | |||
| Constant | 0.9367 (0.981) | 6.6108*** (2.508) | |||
| SD | |||||
| Direct cost | 0.0039 (0.291) | ||||
| Walking distance | 0.0039 (0.181) | ||||
| Antimalarial drug availability | 1.1833 (1.358) | ||||
| Economic status | Middle | 2.5479* (1.543) | 0.0603 (1.964) | ||
| High | 0.0170 (2.680) | 4.2573 (2.903) | |||
| Sample size | 210 | ||||
| Log likelihood | −148.98 | ||||
| Pseudo R2 | 0.3280 | ||||
Self-care is the base alternative. Numbers in parentheses are SEs.
Direct cost includes treatment cost and travel cost. Economic status is categorized into three based on asset index (see Figure 1).
VHV, village health volunteer.
***p < 0.01.
**p < 0.05.
*p < 0.1.