Equity and access to maternal and child health services in Ghana a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Concentration index and ratio of richest to poorest quintile or decile for child health indicator of maternal and child health

MCH indicator	CI	RR (quintile5: quintile1)	RR (decile 10: decile 1)
2. Child health Outcome indicator
VI. Low birth weight	−0.021	0.861	0.815
VII. Under five mortalities	−0.247***	0.426***	0.350***
Child malnourishment
Underweight	−0.055***	0.772**	0.837
Stunting	−0.029	0.738**	0.740**
Wasting	−0.003	0.822**	0.791**
Child illness
Diarrhoea	−0.145***	0.392***	0.386***
Suspected pneumonia	−0.002	1.002	0.927
Coverage indicator
VIII. ORS/ORT for diarrhoea	−0.221***	0.344***	0.485
IX. Appropriate provider for pneumonia	0.111***	1.704***	1.715*
X. Child immunization
BCG	0.060**	1.598***	1.658***
MMR	0.054**	1.583***	1.589***
DPT	0.064**	1.640***	1.684***
Yellow fever	0.069***	1.673***	1.682***

BCG Bacille Calmette–Guerin, CI Concentration index, DPT Diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, MMR Measles, mumps and rubella, ORS/ORT Oral rehydration salts/oral rehydration therapy, RR Risk ratio
^a Quintile 5 is the richest; quintile 1 is the poorest
^b Decile 10 is the richest; decile 1 is the poorest
*P < 0.1; **P < 0.05; ***P < 0.01

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