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Table 9 Relationship between sociodemographic factors and catastrophic health care expenditure (binary logistic regression with the 2015 data)

From: Catastrophic health care expenditure in Myanmar: policy implications in leading progress towards universal health coverage

Independent variables

Catastrophic Expenditure

(Yes = 1, No = 0)

N = 1163

WHO standard 20%

WHO standard 30%

WHO standard 40%

WHO modified 20%

WHO modified 30%

WHO modified 40%

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

LIFT Intervention

1.0587

0.7233

1.5497

1.0305

0.6355

1.6709

1.012

0.5658

1.8095

0.8674

0.6267

1.2005

0.8393

0.5983

1.1773

0.8325

0.5882

1.1783

Hilly Region

1.3576

0.9151

2.0142

0.9701

0.5892

1.5970

0.8204

0.4514

1.4910

1.6515

1.1758

2.3198

1.4318

1.0052

2.0394

1.5335

1.0660

2.2062

Dry Zone

1.0071

0.6672

1.5203

0.8047

0.4826

1.3417

0.6777

0.3643

1.2608

1.0796

0.7630

1.5275

0.9474

0.6566

1.3668

0.9642

0.6592

1.4105

Age of household head

0.7831

0.5076

1.2082

0.9264

0.5447

1.5754

1.2252

0.6575

2.2831

0.8279

0.5648

1.2136

0.8568

0.5700

1.2880

0.9629

0.6319

1.4673

Gender of household head

1.0133

1.0001

1.0258

1.0158

1.000

1.0317

1.0126

0.9937

1.0318

1.0104

0.9991

1.0218

1.0043

0.9926

1.0161

0.9994

0.9875

1.0115

Education of household head

1.1261

0.9351

1.3560

1.0136

0.7946

1.2929

1.0414

0.7740

1.4012

1.0148

0.8604

1.1970

0.9615

0.8082

1.1438

0.9441

0.7892

1.1293

Total number of households

0.9477

0.8639

1.0398

0.9451

0.8398

1.0635

0.9559

0.8291

1.1020

1.8497

1.6713

2.0475

2.1213

1.9002

2.3683

2.2228

1.9835

2.4910

Number of under 5 children in the household

1.3664

1.0491

1.7795

1.1700

0.8247

1.6600

1.3463

0.8985

2.0173

1.1771

0.9165

1.5117

1.0661

0.8283

1.3721

1.0956

0.8492

1.4134

Number of disable person in the household

1.7598

1.3201

2.3456

1.7909

1.2862

2.4935

1.7687

1.1972

2.6131

2.2092

1.5636

3.1212

1.9125

1.3645

2.6806

1.9276

1.3703

2.7115

Total household income

0.9533

0.8951

1.0153

0.9894

0.9152

1.0697

0.9690

0.8783

1.0689

0.8486

0.8018

0.8980

0.8165

0.7676

0.8685

0.8151

0.7647

0.8688

Constant

0.1255

0.0453

0.3472

0.0610

0.0167

0.2231

0.0270

0.0073

0.1606

0.7978

0.0315

0.2018

0.0684

0.0260

0.1796

0.0524

0.0194

0.1413

LR chi2

35.28

21.05

15.75

332.04

394.20

422.14

Prob > chi2

0.0001

0.0207

0.1070

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Pseudo R2

0.0323

0.0282

0.0286

0.2066

0.2499

0.2723

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