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Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda
BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the patterns of treatment seeking behaviour for children under five with malaria; and to examine the statistical relationship between out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) on malaria treatment for under-fives and source of treatment, place of residen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23721217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-175 |
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author | Nabyonga Orem, Juliet Mugisha, Frederick Okui, Albert Peter Musango, Laurent Kirigia, Joses Muthuri |
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description | BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the patterns of treatment seeking behaviour for children under five with malaria; and to examine the statistical relationship between out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) on malaria treatment for under-fives and source of treatment, place of residence, education and wealth characteristics of Uganda households. OOP expenditure on health care is now a development concern due to its negative effect on households’ ability to finance consumption of other basic needs. METHODS: The 2009 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey was the source of data on treatment seeking behaviour for under-five children with malaria, and patterns and levels of OOP expenditure for malaria treatment. Binomial logit and Log-lin regression models were estimated. In logit model the dependent variable was a dummy (1=incurred some OOP, 0=none incurred) and independent variables were wealth quintiles, rural versus urban, place of treatment, education level, sub-region, and normal duty disruption. The dependent variable in Log-lin model was natural logarithm of OOP and the independent variables were the same as mentioned above. RESULTS: Five key descriptive analysis findings emerge. First, malaria is quite prevalent at 44.7% among children below the age of five. Second, a significant proportion seeks treatment (81.8%). Third, private providers are the preferred option for the under-fives for the treatment of malaria. Fourth, the majority pay about 70.9% for either consultation, medicines, transport or hospitalization but the biggest percent of those who pay, do so for medicines (54.0%). Fifth, hospitalization is the most expensive at an average expenditure of US$7.6 per child, even though only 2.9% of those that seek treatment are hospitalized. The binomial logit model slope coefficients for the variables richest wealth quintile, Private facility as first source of treatment, and sub-regions Central 2, East central, Mid-eastern, Mid-western, and Normal duties disrupted were positive and statistically significant at 99% level of confidence. On the other hand, the Log-lin model slope coefficients for Traditional healer, Sought treatment from one source, Primary educational level, North East, Mid Northern and West Nile variables had a negative sign and were statistically significant at 95% level of confidence. CONCLUSION: The fact that OOP expenditure is still prevalent and private provider is the preferred choice, increasing public provision may not be the sole answer. Plans to improve malaria treatment should explicitly incorporate efforts to protect households from high OOP expenditures. This calls for provision of subsidies to enable the private sector to reduce prices, regulation of prices of malaria medicines, and reduction/removal of import duties on such medicines. |
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spelling | pubmed-36803232013-06-13 Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda Nabyonga Orem, Juliet Mugisha, Frederick Okui, Albert Peter Musango, Laurent Kirigia, Joses Muthuri Malar J Research BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the patterns of treatment seeking behaviour for children under five with malaria; and to examine the statistical relationship between out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) on malaria treatment for under-fives and source of treatment, place of residence, education and wealth characteristics of Uganda households. OOP expenditure on health care is now a development concern due to its negative effect on households’ ability to finance consumption of other basic needs. METHODS: The 2009 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey was the source of data on treatment seeking behaviour for under-five children with malaria, and patterns and levels of OOP expenditure for malaria treatment. Binomial logit and Log-lin regression models were estimated. In logit model the dependent variable was a dummy (1=incurred some OOP, 0=none incurred) and independent variables were wealth quintiles, rural versus urban, place of treatment, education level, sub-region, and normal duty disruption. The dependent variable in Log-lin model was natural logarithm of OOP and the independent variables were the same as mentioned above. RESULTS: Five key descriptive analysis findings emerge. First, malaria is quite prevalent at 44.7% among children below the age of five. Second, a significant proportion seeks treatment (81.8%). Third, private providers are the preferred option for the under-fives for the treatment of malaria. Fourth, the majority pay about 70.9% for either consultation, medicines, transport or hospitalization but the biggest percent of those who pay, do so for medicines (54.0%). Fifth, hospitalization is the most expensive at an average expenditure of US$7.6 per child, even though only 2.9% of those that seek treatment are hospitalized. The binomial logit model slope coefficients for the variables richest wealth quintile, Private facility as first source of treatment, and sub-regions Central 2, East central, Mid-eastern, Mid-western, and Normal duties disrupted were positive and statistically significant at 99% level of confidence. On the other hand, the Log-lin model slope coefficients for Traditional healer, Sought treatment from one source, Primary educational level, North East, Mid Northern and West Nile variables had a negative sign and were statistically significant at 95% level of confidence. CONCLUSION: The fact that OOP expenditure is still prevalent and private provider is the preferred choice, increasing public provision may not be the sole answer. Plans to improve malaria treatment should explicitly incorporate efforts to protect households from high OOP expenditures. This calls for provision of subsidies to enable the private sector to reduce prices, regulation of prices of malaria medicines, and reduction/removal of import duties on such medicines. BioMed Central 2013-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3680323/ /pubmed/23721217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-175 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nabyonga Orem et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Nabyonga Orem, Juliet Mugisha, Frederick Okui, Albert Peter Musango, Laurent Kirigia, Joses Muthuri Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title | Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title_full | Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title_fullStr | Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title_full_unstemmed | Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title_short | Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for Malaria for the children under-five in Uganda |
title_sort | health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria for the children under-five in uganda |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23721217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-175 |
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