Access to primary healthcare Services in Conflict-Affected Fragile States: a subnational descriptive analysis of educational and wealth disparities in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Nigeria

Table 1 Education and wealth disparities in access to PHC services in Cameroon, DRC, Mali, and Nigeria

Type of disparity	Indicator	Country	Absolute difference		Concentration Index			Regression Coefficients
Type of disparity	Indicator	Country	Least^a	Highes^b	P-value^c	CI	P value^d	OR^e	P value^f
Education	Geographic Barriers	Cameroon	57.42	30.37	0.001	−0.25	< 0.001	0.72	0.006
		DRC	48.81	31.32	< 0.001	−0.16	< 0.001	0.86	0.142
		Mali	33.75	14.6	< 0.001	−0.15	< 0.001	0.65	0.001
		Nigeria	35.84	18.45	< 0.001	−0.18	< 0.001	0.61	< 0.001
	Financial Barriers	Cameroon	81.44	58.52	< 0.001	− 0.23	< 0.001	0.57	< 0.001
		DRC	79.93	59.85	< 0.001	−0.19	< 0.001	0.56	< 0.001
		Mali	46.37	24.34	< 0.001	−0.17	< 0.001	0.55	< 0.001
		Nigeria	55.9	37.62	0.875	−0.21	< 0.001	0.51	< 0.001
Wealth	Geographic Barriers	Cameroon	62.7	23.41	< 0.001	−0.32	< 0.001	0.37	< 0.001
		DRC	53.09	20.71	< 0.001	−0.27	< 0.001	0.60	0.002
		Mali	45.18	14.14	< 0.001	−0.21	< 0.001	0.23	< 0.001
		Nigeria	45.52	12.78	< 0.001	−0.25	< 0.001	0.35	< 0.001
	Financial Barriers	Cameroon	84.11	49.45	0.127	−0.28	< 0.001	0.18	< 0.001
		DRC	80.83	50.09	0.04	−0.25	< 0.001	0.27	< 0.001
		Mali	54.94	25.84	0.003	−0.24	< 0.001	0.12	< 0.001
		Nigeria	61.26	28.16	< 0.001	−0.27	< 0.001	0.18	< 0.001

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