Affordability of Essential Medicines and Associated Factors in Public Health Facilities of Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia
Table 4
Multivariable logistic regression analysis of factors associated with perceived affordability of essential medicine in public health facilities of the Jimma Zone.
Variables
Not affordable
Affordable
value
AOR (95% CI)
Name
Category
N (%)
N (%)
Level of the health facility
Hospital
108 (78.3%)
29 (21.7%)
—
1
HC
279 (59.5%)
190 (40.5%)
0.000
3.848 (2.144,6.905)
Number of dispensed medicines
≤2
153 (49.4%)
157 (50.6%)
—
1
>2
234 (79.1%)
62 (20.9%)
0.000
0.326 (0.215,0.493)
Place of residence
Rural
285 (73.1%)
105 (26.9%)
—
1
Urban
102 (47.3%)
114 (52.7%)
0.001
2.100 (1.331, 3.315)
Estimated monthly income in USD
10–50$
210 (75.8%)
67 (24.2%)
—
1
51–115$
133 (64.6%)
73 (35.4%)
0.491
1.195 (0.720, 1.984)
116–170$
21 (30.9%)
47 (69.1%)
0.053
2.149 (0.990,4.663)
171–225$
15 (40.0%)
25 (62.5%)
0.005
3.897 (1.497,10.145)
>225$
8 (53.3%)
7 (46.7%)
0.912
0.930 (0.260,3.333)
Occupational status
Farmer
120 (77.9%)
34 (22.1%)
—
1
Merchant
50 (37.0%)
85 (63.0%)
0.000
3.354 (1.793,6.274)
Student
52 (74.3%)
18 (25.7%)
0.671
1.171 (0.565,2.429)
House wife
79 (78.2%)
22 (21.8%)
0.549
0.818 (0.424,1.578)
Government employee
23 (31.9%)
49 (68.1%)
0.001
3.686 (1.701,7.986)
Daily laborer
54 (85.7%)
9 (14.3%)
0.015
0.333 (0.138,0.806)
Others
9 (81.8%)
2 (18.2%)
0.215
0.332 (0.058,1.898)
Number of economically dependent family members
None
55 (71.4%)
22 (28.6%)
0.854
0.935 (0.459, 1.908)
One
42 (51.9%)
39 (48.1%)
0.008
2.443 (1.259, 4.741)
Two
44 (51.8%)
41 (48.2%)
0.015
2.206 (1.165, 4.175)
Three
44 (54.3%)
37 (45.7%)
0.029
2.053 (1.075, 3.923)
Four
41 (57.7%)
30 (42.3%)
0.237
1.510 (0.763, 2.990)
More than four
161 (76.3%)
50 (23.7%)
1
AOR = adjusted odds ratio, CI = confidence interval, 1 = reference group. Statistically significant at , Hosmer and Lomeshow test , classification power = 77.6%.
