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Table 4.1: Quintile Distribution and Income-related Inequality Indices for
the Actual Probability of Health Care Use by Level of Care and Type
of Providers*
West Bank (WB)
Pro. of any use/admission
Q1
poorest
Q2 Q3 Q4
Q5
richest
Primary level 0.484 0.471 0.417 0.227 0.209 -0.214
Public sector 0.319 0.312 0.201 0.203 0.103 -0.127
Private sector 0.141 0.197 0.231 0.242 0.283 0.260
NGOs sector 0.258 0.107 0.091 0.087 0.077 -0.133
Secondary (outpatient) 0.109 0.167 0.316 0.405 0.439 0.151
Secondary (inpatient) 0.601 0.603 0.613 0.648 0.621 0.274
Public sector 0.363 0.342 0.341 0.308 0.085 -0.033
Private sector 0.101 0.111 0.124 0.186 0.187 0.651
NGOs sector 0.103 0.112 0.171 0.126 0.137 0.163
Tertiary level 0.036 0.059 0.061 0.066 0.077 0.761
Gaza Strip (GS)
Pro. of any use/admission
Q1
poorest
Q2 Q3 Q4
Q5
richest
Primary level 0.421 0.411 0.301 0.211 0.111 -0.131
Public 0.310 0.308 0.241 0.203 0.103 -0.121
Private 0.106 0.119 0.131 0.162 0.233 0.126
NGOs 0.298 0.187 0.141 0.137 0.131 -0.121
Secondary (outpatient) 0.089 0.092 0.096 0.106 0.119 0.107
Secondary (inpatient) 0.653 0.601 0.803 0.840 0.811 0.274
Public 0.517 0.482 0.471 0.413 0.104 -0.291
Private 0.097 0.126 0.154 0.166 0.291 0.645
NGOs 0.108 0.143 0.144 0.146 0.187 0.167
Tertiary level 0.010 0.019 0.021 0.025 0.037 0.676
*Note: A positive (negative) CI indicates a pro-rich (pro-poor) distribution. Index in bold type
indicates statistical significantly different from zero at p < 0.05.
CI
CI
Also, from Table 4.1, substantial differences are found in the bottom-income quintiles
and in the top-income quintiles in the patterns of inpatient-admission between public
and NGOs sectors: the probability of admission to a public-patient is about 3 times higher
in the WB, and 5 times higher in GS, than that of being admitted to NGOs hospital in the
lowest-quintiles, while the probability of being admitted as NGOs in the top-income