Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda

Table 5 Binomial logit model estimates of paying out-of-pocket for children under-five with malaria, for different categories of the population in Uganda

Paid out of pocket	Coef	Odds ratio	Std Err	z	P>z
Wealth Index(Poorest)
Poorer	0.42	1.5	0.20	2.05	0.040	*
Middle	0.41	1.5	0.22	1.88	0.060
Richer	0.43	1.5	0.24	1.77	0.076
Richest	0.95	2.6	0.31	3.02	0.003	*
Rural	−0.14	0.9	0.37	−0.37	0.714
Place first sought treatment
(public facility)^$
Private	2.60	13.4	0.17	15.53	0.000	**
Don’t know	0.23	1.3	0.66	0.36	0.721
Sought treatment from one source	−2.08	0.1	0.31	−6.78	0.000	**
Highest educational level
(no education)
Primary	−0.02	1.0	0.17	−0.1	0.921
Secondary	0.51	1.7	0.28	1.83	0.068
Higher	1.46	4.3	1.16	1.26	0.207
Sub-region(Central 1)
Central 2	1.24	3.4	0.35	3.56	0.000	**
Kampala	1.44	4.2	0.69	2.09	0.036	*
East central	1.28	3.6	0.35	3.63	0.000	**
Mid-eastern	1.31	3.7	0.38	3.46	0.001	**
North-east	0.69	2.0	0.34	2.05	0.040	*
Mid-northern	0.82	2.3	0.33	2.47	0.013	*
West Nile	0.67	2.0	0.33	2.03	0.043	*
Mid-western	1.35	3.9	0.36	3.73	0.000	**
South-western	1.00	2.7	0.43	2.31	0.021	*
Normal duties disrupted	0.78	2.2	0.16	4.79	0.000	**
Constant	0.44	1.6	0.87	0.51	0.610
Number of observations					1,357
Pseudo R2					0.2645
LR chi2(21)					444.63

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