The Palestinian Economy. Theoretical and Practical Challenges

Proceedings “The Palestinian Economy: Theoretical and Practical Challenges” 369
0.05] for outpatient type of care but not inpatient. This indicates a significant pro-rich
inequality in the probability of using secondary-care as outpatient. The distributions of
secondary-care (as inpatient admissions) by type of sector/provider are also presented in
Table 4.1. Results demonstrate that the distributions of hospital-admissions as public or
private patient differ considerably by income: the probability of being admitted as a
public-patient is about 4 times higher in the WB, and 5 times higher in GS, than that of
being admitted as a private-patient in the bottom-quintile. The reverse is true at the high
end of spectrum: the probability of private-admission in the top-income quintile is about 2
times higher in the WB, and 3 times higher in GS, than the public-admission probability.
Turning to the NGOs sector, results demonstrate higher probabilities of (inpatient) use
among higher-income quintiles with a probability of admission to NGOs’ hospital in the
top-income quintile being about twice the probability in bottom-income quintile in the
two regions.