Figure 25: Share of children with symptoms of ARI taken to a health facility during the 5 years

preceding the survey, by wealth quintile since 2010

ICF, 2015. The DHS Program STATcompiler. Funded by USAID.

. January 31 2019

Financial accessibility

Figure 26

and

below gives an overview on different levels of access to health insurance by

women and men in different OIC countries, where data was available. Having access to health

insurance greatly increases access as it reduces out-of-pocket expenditures which pose a major barrier

to access – especially for the poor. Similarly as to what we observed with access indicators above

, and even though sometimes large differences exist between poor and rich

population groups, the poor are more likely to have access in countries where larger parts of rich

population groups have health insurance. It is striking to see in how few countries larger parts of the

population are insured, indicating the long way to go to enhance financial access to health in many OIC

countries.

Risk factors

A large pool of wealth disaggregated data available relates to two major risk factors to health. Below

we show the share of the population living in households using an improved

water source and of the share of the population living in households with improved, non-shared toilet

facilities as an indicator for reduced risk to health for 35 and 33 countries, respectively.

The figures reveal stark differences in infrastructure access within and between countries. It is

encouraging to see that the access to safe drinking water has improved generally for many parts of the

population – however, there are still very large differences between the poorest and richer population

groups. Furthermore, the observation on the indicators above – that higher levels of access for richer

groups makes higher levels of access for poorer generally more likely – does not seem to be true in this

case. Whereas in almost all countries i

the richest quintile has almost universal access to

safe drinking water (the smallest level of coverage is 83.0 per cent), access to safe water by the poorest

populations differ widely between 24.4 per cent in Mauritania and 25.5 per cent in Kazakhstan to 95.3

per cent in Egypt and 96.7 per cent in Jordan.