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Table 2 Distribution of government health subsidies by income quintile in the urban populations at different levels of health care facilities

From: Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China: benefit incidence analysis

Income quintiles

Per capita household expenditure

Community Health Centers

District Hospitals

Municipal Hospitals

Total

Outpatient care

Inpatient care

Outpatient care

Inpatient care

Outpatient care

Inpatient care

Outpatient care

Inpatient care

1 (poorest)

7.93 %

16.97 %

31.86 %

19.94 %

17.07 %

4.61 %

9.83 %

15.80 %

16.45 %

2

13.02 %

14.98 %

19.30 %

16.51 %

16.87 %

13.48 %

10.18 %

14.92 %

13.91 %

3

17.43 %

20.22 %

26.51 %

19.00 %

21.40 %

18.79 %

21.85 %

19.98 %

22.72 %

4

22.86 %

25.63 %

16.28 %

23.68 %

22.17 %

22.34 %

22.08 %

25.14 %

20.87 %

5 (richest)

38.77 %

22.20 %

6.05 %

20.87 %

22.49 %

40.78 %

36.06 %

24.17 %

26.05 %

Gini/concentration index

0.3066** (0.3031 to 0.3101)

0.0795* (0.0113 to 0.1478)

−0.2179** (−0.3805 to −0.0554)

0.0465 (−0.0415 to 0.1345)

0.0752* (0.0150 to 0.1355)

0.3456** (0.2481 to 0.4430)

0.2883** (0.2240 to 0.3527)

0.1068** (0.0495 to 0.16414)

0.1237** (0.0735 to 0.1739)

Weight

 

49.32 %

6.21 %

28.08 %

50.23 %

22.60 %

43.56 %

100 %

100 %

  1. Note: 95 % confidence intervals of the concentration index presented in parentheses
  2. **implies significant at 0.01
  3. *implies significant at 0.05