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

Table 7 Log-linmodel estimates for the natural log of OOP expenditure for children under five with malaria in Uganda

ln(out-of-pocket)	Coef	Std. Err	t-stat	P>t
Wealth Index(Poorest)
Poorer	0.20	0.12	1.69	0.091
Middle	0.03	0.13	0.26	0.798
Richer	0.10	0.14	0.75	0.453
Richest	0.43	0.17	2.53	0.011	*
Rural	-0.28	0.19	-1.48	0.140
Place first sought treatment (Public facility)^$
Private	-0.10	0.09	-1.17	0.243
Traditional healer	-1.73	0.33	-5.20	0.000	**
Dont Know	-0.06	0.50	-0.11	0.909
Sought treatment from one source	-0.56	0.13	-4.42	0.000	**
Highest educational level (no education)
Primary	-0.26	0.10	-2.66	0.008	*
Secondary	0.19	0.15	1.25	0.213
Higher	-0.05	0.33	-0.14	0.885
Sub-region (Central 1)
central 2	-0.13	0.20	-0.64	0.522
Kampala	-0.24	0.32	-0.74	0.458
east central	-0.39	0.21	-1.86	0.063
mid eastern	-0.22	0.21	-1.04	0.299
north east	-0.56	0.21	-2.68	0.007	*
mid northern	-1.02	0.20	-4.98	0.000	**
west nile	-0.96	0.21	-4.64	0.000	**
mid western	0.25	0.22	1.13	0.261
south western	0.31	0.24	1.31	0.192
Normal duties disrupted	0.49	0.09	5.70	0.000	**
Constant	9.44	0.48	19.73	0.000
Number of observations				936
Adj R-squared				0.21
F(22, 913)				12.6

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