Table 1.
Health facility characteristics
| Facility characteristics | Health facility type | OTC facilities | |||
| Overall (n=30) |
OTC (n=25) |
ITC (n=5) |
Non-refugee (n=17) | Refugee (n=8) | |
| Health facility level, n (%) | |||||
| II | 4 (13.3) | 4 (16.0) | 0 | 2 (11.7) | 2 (25.0) |
| III | 18 (60.0) | 18 (72.0) | 0 | 13 (76.5) | 5 (62.5) |
| IV | 3 (10.0) | 2 (8.0) | 1 (20.0) | 1 (5.9) | 1 (12.5) |
| Hospital | 5 (16.7) | 1 (4.0) | 4 (80.0) | 1 (5.9) | 0 |
| Children admitted, n (%)* | 1467 (100) | 909 (62.0) | 558 (38.0) | 533 (58.6) | 376 (41.4) |
| Children admitted by district, n (%)* | |||||
| Adjumani (# facilities=4, population=113 404) | 141 (9.6) | 117 (12.9) | 24 (4.3) | 0 | 117 (31.1) |
| Arua (# facilities=14, population=429 185) | 654 (44.6) | 366 (40.3) | 288 (51.6) | 282 (52.9) | 84 (22.3) |
| Koboko (# facilities=3, population=118 868) | 208 (14.2) | 127 (14.0) | 81 (14.5) | 77 (14.5) | 50 (14.3) |
| Moyo (# facilities=4, population=76 388) | 100 (6.8) | 79 (8.7) | 21 (3.8) | 32 (6.0) | 47 (12.5) |
| Yumbe (# facilities=7, population=310 288) | 364 (24.8) | 220 (24.2) | 144 (25.8) | 142 (26.6) | 78 (20.8) |
| Admissions per facility, median (range) | 33.5 (6–288) | 32 (6–77) | 81 (21–288) | 30 (6–77) | 48.5 (20–71) |
Data on population in each district derive from the National Population and Housing Census 2014.
*Percentage calculated on the total number of children admitted in the 30 selected facilities (n=1467).
ITC, inpatient therapeutic care; OTC, outpatient therapeutic care.