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Table 9 Policy impact estimation on Bill value, UNRWA contribution and Patient contribution (OLS), from April 2016 to October 2017 (with controls and all dependent variables in logarithm)

From: Co-payments and equity in care: enhancing hospitalisation policy for Palestine refugees in Lebanon

 

Bill value

UNRWA contribution

Patient contribution

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Policy

-0.030

-0.044

-0.060**

-0.035

-0.038

0.092

 

(0.019)

(0.028)

(0.024)

(0.025)

(0.205)

(0.177)

Private hospital

 

0.915***

 

0.844***

 

2.368***

  

(0.086)

 

(0.082)

 

(0.512)

Public hospital

 

0.740***

 

0.735***

 

2.269***

  

(0.114)

 

(0.108)

 

(0.272)

Public hospital x Policy

 

0.010

 

-0.062

 

-0.691**

  

(0.050)

 

(0.056)

 

(0.288)

Private hospital x Policy

 

0.048

 

-0.061

 

-1.028***

  

(0.049)

 

(0.050)

 

(0.350)

Age

-0.009***

-0.006***

-0.009***

-0.006***

-0.009***

-0.009***

 

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.003)

Age2

0.000***

0.000***

0.000***

0.000***

0.000***

0.000***

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

Woman

-0.035***

-0.029**

-0.032***

-0.026**

-0.071***

-0.079***

 

(0.011)

(0.011)

(0.011)

(0.011)

(0.025)

(0.027)

Ramadan

-0.022

-0.045

-0.028*

-0.046

0.010

-0.061

 

(0.018)

(0.028)

(0.015)

(0.028)

(0.066)

(0.070)

Distance

0.009

0.021***

0.010

0.020***

0.061*

0.036**

 

(0.013)

(0.003)

(0.011)

(0.003)

(0.031)

(0.015)

Visit

0.024***

0.021***

0.023***

0.020***

0.048***

0.039***

 

(0.006)

(0.005)

(0.005)

(0.005)

(0.010)

(0.008)

Surgery

0.461***

0.474***

0.452***

0.464***

0.701***

0.707***

 

(0.080)

(0.077)

(0.080)

(0.079)

(0.106)

(0.127)

Region FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Month FE

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

Yes

Constant

12.320***

11.597***

4.976***

4.324***

2.647***

0.995*

 

(0.187)

(0.093)

(0.166)

(0.084)

(0.207)

(0.523)

Observations

33,402

33,402

33,401

33,401

13,134

13,134

R-squared

0.128

0.395

0.133

0.353

0.233

0.317

Mean value (USD)3

327.22

290.58

34.05

  1. 1*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  2. 2Note: Dependent variables in log transformations; Estimations include controls for type of hospital, gender, age, Ramadan and LoS. Standard errors clustered by hospital in parentheses. Policy is a dummy variable that indicates the period after the last policy change (from June 2016 onwards). Full table in Additional file 1: Section A1.3
  3. 3Mean values of the dependent variables in USD before logarithm transformation
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