Table 2 Care seeking and associated costs at first provider (those who were sick)
From: Making free public healthcare attractive: optimizing health equity funds in Cambodia
|  | HoHEF N (%) N = 411 | CHEF N (%) N = 450 | iSHPS N (%) N = 1153 | HoHEF vs CHEF | CHEF vs iSHPS | HoHEF vs iSHPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sought care at | Cluster adjusted Chi square < 0.001 | |||||
 Health centre | 34 (8.3) | 130 (29.0) | 559 (48.7) |  |  |  |
 Public hospital | 21 (5.1) | 47 (10.5) | 80 (7.0) |  |  |  |
 Private facility | 209 (50.8) | 161 (36.0) | 337 (29.3) |  |  |  |
 Non-medical | 147 (35.8) | 110 (24.6) | 172 (15.0) |  |  |  |
 Total who went public | 55 (13.4) | 177 (39.5) | 639 (55.7) |  |  |  |
Use of IDPoor card | Cluster adjusted Chi square < 0.001 | |||||
 Health centre | 19 (55.8) | 121 (93.0) | 422 (75.5) |  |  |  |
 Hospital | 9 (42.8) | 29 (61.7) | 40 (50.0) |  |  |  |
 Any public facility | 28 (50.9) | 150 (84.7) | 462 (72.3) |  |  |  |
Distance to provider in km [SD] | p-value* | |||||
 Health centre | 1.7 [2.5] | 5.4 [7.9] | 3.4 [4.1] | < 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.001 |
 Public hospital | 16.8 [14.5] | 35.3[21.9] | 19.9 [23.3] | 0.001 | 0.001 | NS |
 Private facility | 3.1 [9.5] | 9.7 [12.3] | 4.7 [9.0] | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.001 |
 Non-medical | 1.1 [1.1] | 2.5 [5.3] | 1.4 [2.8] | NS | NS | NS |
 Average per facility | 2.8 [8.1] | 8.9 [14.2] | 4.5 [9.1] | < 0.001 | 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Direct medical cost in US$ [SD] | ||||||
 Health centre | 1.6 [5.4] | 3.1 [32.9] | 0.08 [0.9] | < 0.001 | NS | < 0.001 |
 Public hospital | 27.4 [45.3] | 25.0 [60.3] | 16.9 [57.7] | NS | NS | NS |
 Private facility | 32.1 [64.0] | 30.4 [46.6] | 20.5 [33.3] | 0.05 | 0.001 | NS |
 Non-medical | 3.3 [4.7] | 6.4 [16.5] | 3.4 [6.8] | NS | NS | NS |
 Average per patient | 19.1 [48.9] | 15.9 [40.9] | 7.7 [25.4] | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Direct non-medical cost in US$ [SD] | ||||||
 Health centre | 0.3 [0.4] | 0.9 [1.5] | 0.3 [1.6] | NS | < 0.001 | NS |
 Public hospital | 4.7 [4.8] | 11.4 [15.4] | 5.4 [7.1] | NS | NS | NS |
 Private facility | 0.6 [1.4] | 2.6 [6.4] | 1.1 [2.5] | < 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.014 |
 Non-medical | 0.14 [0.3] | 1.2 [7.0] | 0.14 [0.4] | NS | NS | NS |
 Average per patient | 0.6 [1.8] | 2.7 [7.8] | 0.9 [2.9] | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 1.0 |
Average total cost in US$ [SD] | 19.7 [49.2] | 18.6 [64.3] | 8.6 [26.3] | 0.014 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
  Initiates care at public facilities | 13.4 | 12.6 | 3.1 | NS | < 0.001 | 0.001 |
  Initiates care at private facilities | 20.6 | 19.5 | 15.5 | NS | NS | NS |