From: Inequity and benefit incidence analysis in healthcare use among Syrian refugees in Egypt
Variables | Concentration index of covariates (Ci,K) | Total healthcare utilization | |||
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Outpatient services | Inpatient services | ||||
Elasticity (b) | Contribution towards inequality (Ci,K) * b)/CI | Elasticity (b) | Contribution towards inequality (Ci,K) * b)/CI | ||
Need factors | |||||
Age | 0.0180 | 0.0645 | 1% | 0.2524 | 23.1%** |
Gender (male) | 0.0067 | − 0.1492 | − 1%*** | − 0.4497 | − 15.4%*** |
Disabilityb | 0.0735 | 0.0014 | 0.2% | 0.0037 | 1% |
NCD | − 0.0146 | 0.4059 | − 6.3%*** | 0.0735 | − 5.5%** |
Non-need factors | |||||
Urban | 0.0086 | − 0.2478 | − 2.3%* | − 0.0092 | − 0.4% |
Governorates (Greater-Cairo) | − 0.0248 | − 0.0295 | 1% | 0.1993 | − 25% |
Household size | − 0.0221 | − 0.2479 | 6%** | − 0.2997 | 33.7%* |
Education (Head of household) | 0.0207 | 0.0488 | 1.1% | − 0.1917 | − 20% |
Duration in the country | − 0.0009 | 0.2020 | − 0.2%* | 0.6526 | − 3%*** |
Knowledge | − 0.0385 | 0.0148 | − 0.6% | − 0.0204 | 4% |
Employment (Head of household) | 0.0038 | − 0.0309 | − 0.1% | 0.1233 | 2.4% |
Per-capita consumption | 0.2874 | 0.1799 | 54.4%*** | 0.0128 | 18.7% |
Wagstaff’s Index (CIW) | 0.095 | 0.02 | |||
Erreygers’ Index (CIE) | 0.079 | 0.006 |