Table 6.
Factors associated with OOP expenditures stratified by type of care
| OOP Expenditurea | Outpatient | Inpatient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marginal effect | SE | p-value | Marginal effect | SE | p-value | |
| Sector of care | ||||||
| Private | 1302.64 | 1179.10 | 0.27 | 6656.55 | 1359.37 | < 0.001 |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | −669.61 | 687.30 | 0.33 | −4636.28 | 2330.86 | 0.05 |
| Age | ||||||
| 0 to 5 | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| 6 to 20 | 1749.97 | 530.25 | 0.001 | 4647.41 | 2554.70 | 0.07 |
| 21 to 40 | 5033.45 | 685.47 | < 0.001 | 11,412.02 | 3626.46 | 0.002 |
| 41 to 60 | 8093.58 | 1134.86 | < 0.001 | 4098.84 | 2401.64 | 0.09 |
| > 60 | 7374.50 | 1174.63 | < 0.001 | 3207.23 | 2764.51 | 0.25 |
| Household wealth quintile | ||||||
| Poorest | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| Poorer | 1573.21 | 613.17 | 0.01 | 1536.80 | 1235.42 | 0.21 |
| Middle | 3387.03 | 1048.08 | 0.001 | 4470.90 | 1298.43 | 0.001 |
| Richer | 4334.84 | 787.13 | < 0.001 | 7423.11 | 1641.75 | < 0.001 |
| Richest | 7302.04 | 1230.81 | < 0.001 | 22,536.90 | 3227.64 | < 0.001 |
| Region | ||||||
| Rural | 1454.51 | 591.75 | 0.01 | 3296.88 | 1479.93 | 0.03 |
| Province | ||||||
| Punjab | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| Sindh | − 4664.80 | 575.07 | < 0.001 | −3136.24 | 1450.22 | 0.03 |
| KP | − 4393.93 | 750.38 | < 0.001 | 447.40 | 2324.60 | 0.85 |
| Balochistan | − 1621.27 | 1020.91 | 0.11 | − 8523.96 | 1637.83 | < 0.001 |
| Household size | ||||||
| 1–4 | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| 5–8 | − 1183.92 | 721.30 | 0.10 | −5581.07 | 2299.34 | 0.02 |
| 9–12 | − 1833.67 | 951.51 | 0.05 | −9167.43 | 2577.53 | < 0.001 |
| 13+ | −3388.54 | 947.73 | < 0.001 | 1127.79 | 6448.54 | 0.86 |
| Type of illness | ||||||
| Communicable | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| Accident/Injury | 3397.88 | 2521.68 | 0.18 | 13,214.49 | 4524.63 | 0.003 |
| Chronic | 1442.92 | 919.07 | 0.12 | 4133.48 | 2739.33 | 0.13 |
| Childbirth | N/A | − 3683.05 | 2423.11 | 0.13 | ||
| Other female reproductive health concerns | 760.92 | 1433.90 | 0.60 | − 2495.16 | 3035.34 | 0.41 |
| Other illness | − 4268.83 | 679.27 | < 0.001 | 13,546.45 | 4022.53 | 0.001 |
| N | 6770 | 1199 | ||||
aModeled using GLM with log link and gamma distribution, marginal effects are shown