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Table 4 Odds of receiving ACT and diagnostic testing by household wealth quintile, among children under five with fever in the past two weeks

From: Monitoring fever treatment behaviour and equitable access to effective medicines in the context of initiatives to improve ACT access: baseline results and implications for programming in six African countries

 

Benin

DRC

Madagascar

Nigeria

Uganda

Zambia

 

N = 927

N = 2, 626

N = 2, 120

N = 3, 155

N = 1, 750

N = 1, 886

Received ACT

Lowest

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Low

1.15

(0.55-2.39)

1.20

(0.72-2.03)

3.92

(1.35-11.41)*

1.07

(0.40-2.82)

0.62

(0.33-1.17)

0.86

(0.55-1.33)

Middle

1.55

(0.60-3.99)

1.01

(0.46-2.20)

6.75

(1.91-23.85)**

2.97

(1.13-7.83)*

0.58

(0.32-1.04)

0.81

(0.49-1.32)

High

1.30

(0.64-2.65)

1.42

(0.63-3.24)

7.25

(1.55-33.85)*

3.51

(1.44-8.59)**

0.81

(0.38-1.72)

0.47

(0.25-0.87)*

Highest

2.68

(1.12-6.42)*

2.18

(1.12-4.24)*

5.37

(1.58-18.24)**

6.59

(2.73-15.89)***

1.11

(0.56-2.20)

0.62

(0.33-1.14)

Received blood test

Lowest

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Low

7.04

(0.75-65.88)

1.61

(0.94-2.76)

1.88

(0.68-5.24)

1.28

(0.63-2.62)

1.76

(0.96-3.24)

1.13

(0.82-1.54)

Middle

4.07

(0.31-53.90)

2.30

(1.41-3.76)**

1.54

(0.62-3.81)

1.19

(0.58-2.43)

1.85

(0.95-3.62)

0.94

(0.64-1.38)

High

7.91

(0.65-96.01)

3.02

(1.80-5.08)***

2.99

(1.16-7.69)*

1.45

(0.80-2.60)

2.00

(1.11-3.59)*

0.76

(0.49-1.19)

Highest

11.87

(1.27-110.58)*

5.92

(3.51-9.98)***

3.16

(1.21-8.22)*

2.58

(1.48-4.50)**

4.53

(2.37-8.64)***

1.06

(0.70-1.60)

  1. * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01 *** p < 0.001