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Table 3 Access to health service

From: The Ebola crisis and people with disabilities’ access to healthcare and government services in Liberia

 

A few, or many, cases of Ebola (n=560)

No Ebola cases (n=1343)

Don’t know whether there were any

Ebola cases (n=107)

 

Disabled household n (%)

Non-disabled household n (%)

Total

n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household n (%) (reference group)

Total n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household

n (%)

Total

n (%)

During the Ebola outbreak did your access to health services:

 Get better

2 (1%)

7 (2%)

9 (2%)

18 (3%)

30 (5%)

48 (4%)

1 (2%)

1 (2%)

2 (2%)

 Stay the same

45 (17%) ††

57 (20%) ††

102 (18%)

131 (20%) ††

298 (46%)

429 (33%)

17 (40%)

22 (40%)

39 (40%)

 Get worse

217 (82%)**

217 (75%)**

434 (78%)

458 (69%)**

308 (47%)

766 (58%)

14 (33%)

20 (36%)

34 (35%)

 Don't know

1 (0%)

9 (3%)

10 (2%)

59 (9%)**

17 (3%)

76 (6%)

10 (24%)**

12 (22%)**

22 (23%)

  1. ** p<0.0005 *p<0.005 significant increase in odds †† p<0.0005 †p<0.005 decrease in odds of outcome compared to reference group of Non-disabled households in no Ebola cases area, in multi-level mixed effects logistic regression adjusting for age, sex, education, and wealth quintile and clustering by village