Table 2 Characteristics of users and non-users of healthcare services with reference to the recent reported illness/injury
From: Who uses outpatient healthcare services under Ghana’s health protection scheme and why?
Status | P-value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Users | Non-users | ||
Characteristics | N = 1349 | N = 14,851 | |
Sex | |||
Male | 39.9 | 42.7 | P = 0.000 |
Female | 60.1 | 57.3 | |
Residence | |||
Urban | 53.3 | 44.4 | P = 0.026 |
Rural | 46.7 | 55.6 | |
Age | |||
Children (≤18 years) | 44.9 | 35.3 | P = 0.314 |
Adult | 47.1 | 54.3 | |
Elderly (≥70 years) | 8.1 | 10.3 | |
Insurance status | |||
Active members | 63.7 | 50.43 | P = 0.000 |
Previous members | 15.1 | 17.9 | |
No card | 4.0 | 5.1 | |
Never insured | 17.2 | 26.6 | |
% of adults (≥18 years) who ever attended school (n = 796) | 65.1 | 73.0 | |
Mean years of schooling (≥6 years) (in years) | 7.1 | 7.1 | |
Access to health (% of population who are more than 60 min from the nearest health facilities) | P = 0.15 | ||
Regional hospital | 60.8 | 62.6 | |
District hospital | 19.7 | 29.9 | |
Private/NGO hospital | 32.0 | 33.7 | |
Public health centre | 3.3 | 7.9 | |
Private clinic | 23.4 | 28.7 | |
Mission/NGO clinic | 29.4 | 28.7 | |
Private pharmacy | 17.2 | 19.8 | |
License chemical store | 2.3 | 1.7 | |
Access to transport and administrative infrastructure (mean time in minutes) | |||
The nearest tarmac road | 19.0 | 27.3 | P = 0.67 |
The nearest all-seasoned road | 7.5 | 11.1 | |
Weekly market | 25.3 | 28.8 | |
Daily market | 15.5 | 21.3 | |
District capital | 42.0 | 51.6 | |
The nearest place with daily bus /taxi services | 9.5 | 10.0 | |
Wealth quintile (economic resources) | |||
First | 17.2 | 23.9 | P = 0.141 |
Second | 21.9 | 17.1 | |
Middle | 21.3 | 23.9 | |
Fourth | 21.0 | 17.1 | |
Highest | 18.5 | 18.0 | |